Prices in Mexico 🇲🇽
What 7 everyday items cost in Mexico, shown in US dollars, in MXN, and as roughly how long someone earning the average local wage works to buy one.
Mexico produces much of its own fresh food, keeping groceries cheap in dollar terms, but the peso has been comparatively strong in recent years, which lifts Mexican prices when converted. Fuel is taxed but has also been subject to periodic government caps.
What things cost
| Item | USD | Local | Work time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Mac | $6.17 | 109 MXN | 1.5 h |
| Coca-Cola (330ml can) | $1.04 | 18 MXN | 16 min |
| Cappuccino | $3.76 | 65.19 MXN | 56 min |
| Milk (1 litre) | $1.72 | 29.82 MXN | 26 min |
| Eggs (dozen) | $2.62 | 45.43 MXN | 39 min |
| Apples (1 kg) | $3.04 | 52.71 MXN | 46 min |
| Gasoline (1 litre) | $1.50 | 26.01 MXN | 23 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 Mexico compares
Relative to the rest of the game, Mexico is most expensive for milk, where it ranks 11th out of 32 countries at $1.72 — against a global median of $1.54.
It is relatively cheapest for coca-cola at $1.04, which is 21st of 33 — only 12 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 1.5 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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