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International Cost of Living – July 2009
The most expensive place to live in the world, as in July 2009, remains Tokyo, Japan, but there have been major changes last year, mainly due to large differences in exchange rates and, more recently, a real decrease in prices and most sites around the world enjoying its lowest inflation in recent times.
cost of living in Tokyo increased only 1.4% from July 2008-July 2009, but is 16 points clear indication of the 2nd place in Hong Kong (July 11, 2008). Year in Oslo, Norway, was the second most expensive place to live all over the world, but the cost of living compared to Oslo for the rest of the world fell 27 index points compared to last year.
The cost of living indices are based on prices in the same basket of goods in local currency and U.S. dollars compared to the rate of exchange in New York as the base (New York = 100). In most cases the main factor of evolution has been the weakening other currencies against the U.S. dollar. This is the main factor behind the decline in Oslo 2-13 world's most expensive place to live. Of NOK decreased by 19% against the U.S. dollar during the past year. By contrast, the Japanese yen has risen by 12.7% against the dollar U.S. last year.
The five most expensive places in the world along
Join Tokyo and Hong Kong in the top 5 sites more expensive around the world are Caracas, Venezuela (62 places in the ranking) to the third most expensive followed, Bangui Central African Republic, and 5th place Geneva, Switzerland, two positions in July 2008.
The five big jumps
The greatest increase in cost of living in Harare, Zimbabwe, although off a low base. Harare has been ranked as the cheapest place for several years worldwide, mainly due to hyperinflation and a weak currency. This year the costs in Zimbabwe, the index has risen 118% life and now stands 275th in the most expensive of 276 worldwide locations. Other significant increases in the cost of life in Honiara last year are in the Solomon Islands 37% compared with July 2008, Caracas, up to 22%, Kigali, Rwanda increased by 19% while the jump is the fifth in Manama, Bahrain, 17%.
The five cheapest places in the global world
State of the World least expensive to live in Tianjin is China this year at a cost of living index only 30 against New York 100. Harare, Zimbabwe in recent years Localization World is cheaper now the second least expensive, followed by Durban in South Africa. Phnom Penh, Cambodia ranks fourth, followed by face Mbabane, Swaziland.
The five biggest declines
The largest decrease in the relative cost of living is a decrease Nuku'alofa Tonga 45%, followed by Brazzaville in Congo with a reduction of 31%. The Congolese franc has lost 44% against the U.S. dollar compared with July 2008. Mbabane, Swaziland, a relative decrease took the lives of 30%, while Budapest in Hungary fell by 28%. The decrease between July 5, 2008 to July 2009 was Guangzhou in China, down 27% despite the yuan to strengthen slightly against the dollar in the United States of 1%.
Details: What is the most expensive Where?
Top 5 of Alcohol and Snuff
Alcoholic beverages such as beer, locally produced spirit, whiskey and wine products like snuff and cigarettes are more expensive in Doha, Qatar, followed by Oslo, Manama, Moroni in the Comoros and South Tarawa in Kiribati. Place the cheapest alcohol and snuff are Kuwait.
Top 5 clothes
Clothing and products including shoes and suits, sportswear, clothing and shoes, coats and hats, formal wear, shoes and clothing is also more expensive repairs at Doha and beyond Zagreb in Croatia, Dubai, Beijing and Manama. The cheapest place for clothes is Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Top 5 Communication
The communication costs such as rental costs and home phone for calls, Internet access and cost of services, contract mobile phone cellular calls are more expensive in Guinea-Bissau Guinea-Bissau, followed Noumea New Caledonia, Riga, Latvia, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, and Douala in Cameroon. The most cheap for the communication of Conakry in Guinea.
Top 5 Education
Commission expenses as child care or preschool, school fees / school, costs of education expenses for primary and tertiary education are higher in the surveillance of Luanda in Angola Caracas, Brasilia, Brazil, Hamilton, Bermuda and Lagos in Nigeria. The cheapest place for education is Paramaribo, Suriname.
Top 5 Furniture and Appliance
The costs of furniture, appliances and household appliances such as DVD player, fridge with freezer, iron iron, coffeemaker, toaster, microwave, lamps, TV, vacuum cleaner, washing machine are the most expensive in Douala and in Bamako, Mali, Bangui, Lagos and Freetown in Sierra Leone. The cheapest place for furniture and appliances is Harare.
Top 5 Food
The cost of food, drinks and cleaning the property, as baby items, baked goods, pastries, preserves, cheeses, cleaning products, dairy products, fresh fruit, vegetables, juices fruit, meat, spices and vinegar, oil, pet food, ready meals, sauces, seafood, snacks, drinks, and herbs are more expensive in Tokyo followed by Bangui, Honiara, Copenhagen Denmark, and Lagos. The cheapest place to buy groceries is again Harare.
Top 5 Health
The costs of general health care, health and medical insurance, and general medical consultation, rates, hospitalization rates daily medicine private, non-prescription and private health insurance and medical aid contributions are more expensive in Tokyo followed by Hong Kong, Caracas, Luanda and Hamilton, Bermuda. The cheapest place for health care is Tianjin.
Top 5 home
The cost of housing, water, electricity, cooking gas domestic fuels, the rates of local taxes and housing and mortgage the house or apartment, house and apartment rentals, household consumption of electricity consumption, house gas, water, household fuel consumption and local property rates / taxes / fees are more expensive in Hong Kong and Tokyo, Taipei, Taiwan, Dubai and Luanda. Place the cheapest for the household expenditure Asmara Eritrea.
Top 5 Personal Care
Staff costs for care products and services such as cosmetics, hair care, sunscreen moisturizer / diapers, pain relief pills, toilet paper, toothpaste and soap / shampoo / conditioner are the most expensive in Banjul, Gambia followed, in Algiers, Algeria, South Tarawa in Kiribati, Comoros Moroni, and Bratislava, Slovakia. The cheapest place for personal care is Ulan Bator in Mongolia.
Top 5 Leisure and Culture
Costs such as books, movies photography, cinema tickets, DVDs and CDs, sporting goods, sports and theater tickets are more expensive in Mozambique Maputo followed Bangui, Doha, N'Djamena, Chad, and Cotonou in Benin. The cheapest place for recreation and culture is Harare.
Top 5 Restaurants, hotels and meals outside
Business expenses such as meals, dinner at the restaurant (not fast food), prices of hotels, beverages and snacks to take (fast food) are the most expensive in Dubai followed by Doha, Athens, Greece, Brussels, Belgium and Ljubljana in Slovenia. The cheapest place for restaurants, alfresco dining and the hotel is Tianjin.
Top 5 Transport
The costs for public transport, vehicles, fuel, vehicle insurance and vehicle maintenance such as hire purchase or lease Car, petrol or diesel, maintenance of public transport services, tires, vehicle insurance, and buying more expensive vehicles to Tbilisi in the Republic of Georgia, followed by Honiara, Dili, East Timor, Douala and Oslo. Place the cheapest transport is of Tianjin.
The best place to live Top 5
Thus, if I had to go anywhere in the world now, where would you experience the lowest cost of living with less difficulty? Testing is used as a measure of the discomfort of a person and their family are likely to experience. Each site is classified as a world which is the minimum difficulty and 4, which is extremely hard. So if you want to live in a minimum load, location the lower cost of living is of Adelaide in Australia. Adelaide is minimal burden and cost of living instead of 60 in New York compared to the rate of 100. The next 6 best places to live, on this basis throughout the U.S.. Memphis, Tennessee is second followed by El Paso, Texas third, St Louis, Missouri in April and May in Indianapolis Indiana. The best place the day, outside the United States Auckland, New Zealand at the 8th place.
The detailed classification cost of living in July 2009, for each shot for each of more than 200 places in the world can be found at www.xpatulator.com.
About the Author
Steven Coleman runs Xpatulator.com an internet service that provides free cost of living and hardship information for 276 global locations to registered users. The premium content international cost of living calculator and cost of living allowance calculator are used for international cost of living comparison and calculation of cost of living allowance. Follow Steven on twitter steveninseattle.