Prices in Argentina 🇦🇷
What 7 everyday items cost in Argentina, shown in US dollars, in ARS, and as roughly how long someone earning the average local wage works to buy one.
Argentina is the hardest country in the game to price. Years of high inflation and a gap between official and parallel exchange rates mean a peso figure can be weeks out of date, and converting it to dollars gives very different answers depending on which rate you use. Read the Argentine numbers as the roughest in the table.
What things cost
| Item | USD | Local | Work time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Mac | $5.53 | 8,000 ARS | 1.6 h |
| Coca-Cola (330ml can) | $0.71 | 750 ARS | 12 min |
| Cappuccino | $3.53 | 5,254.24 ARS | 61 min |
| Milk (1 litre) | hidden — in play right now | ||
| Eggs (dozen) | $2.66 | 3,959.29 ARS | 46 min |
| Apples (1 kg) | $2.47 | 3,676.48 ARS | 42 min |
| Gasoline (1 litre) | $1.22 | 1,815.91 ARS | 21 min |
Local-currency figures are converted from US dollars at recent exchange rates, except the Big Mac, which is published in local currency by The Economist and converted the other way. Work time divides the dollar price by an estimated average hourly wage — the roughest number on this page. See methodology.
How Argentina compares
Relative to the rest of the game, Argentina is most expensive for big mac, where it ranks 19th out of 33 countries at $5.53 — against a global median of $5.69.
It is relatively cheapest for coca-cola at $0.71, which is 27th of 33 — only 6 countries in the game are cheaper.
Measured against local earnings rather than dollars, the item that takes the longest to afford here is big mac, at roughly 1.6 hours of the average wage. Dollar prices and work-time prices often rank countries very differently — that gap is usually the more interesting number.
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Argentina comes up in the daily puzzle roughly once every 33 days, paired with a different item each time. Play today's puzzle or browse the archive of past rounds.