Prices in Egypt 🇪🇬
What 7 everyday items cost in Egypt, shown in US dollars, in EGP, and as roughly how long someone earning the average local wage works to buy one.
Egypt has the cheapest fuel in the game by a wide margin — the state has subsidised petrol for decades, though it has been cutting those subsidies under IMF programmes since 2016. Successive devaluations of the pound also make Egyptian prices look very low once converted to dollars.
What things cost
| Item | USD | Local | Work time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Mac | $2.65 | 125 EGP | 88 min |
| Coca-Cola (330ml can) | $0.40 | 19 EGP | 13 min |
| Cappuccino | $1.48 | 75.66 EGP | 49 min |
| Milk (1 litre) | $0.88 | 44.99 EGP | 29 min |
| Eggs (dozen) | $1.34 | 68.51 EGP | 45 min |
| Apples (1 kg) | $1.60 | 81.8 EGP | 53 min |
| Gasoline (1 litre) | $0.43 | 21.98 EGP | 14 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 Egypt compares
Relative to the rest of the game, Egypt is most expensive for big mac, where it ranks 31st out of 33 countries at $2.65 — against a global median of $5.69.
It is relatively cheapest for coca-cola at $0.40, which is 33rd of 33 — only 0 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 88 minutes 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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