Prices in Vietnam 🇻🇳
What 7 everyday items cost in Vietnam, shown in US dollars, in VND, and as roughly how long someone earning the average local wage works to buy one.
Vietnam is among the cheapest countries in the game across nearly every item. It is also the world's second-largest coffee producer, which shows up directly in café prices. Dairy is the usual exception for a country without a large domestic herd.
What things cost
| Item | USD | Local | Work time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Mac | $2.89 | 76,000 VND | 62 min |
| Coca-Cola (330ml can) | $0.45 | 11,000 VND | 10 min |
| Cappuccino | $1.63 | 42,691 VND | 35 min |
| Milk (1 litre) | $1.45 | 37,977 VND | 31 min |
| Eggs (dozen) | hidden — in play right now | ||
| Apples (1 kg) | $2.81 | 73,597 VND | 60 min |
| Gasoline (1 litre) | $0.86 | 22,524 VND | 18 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 Vietnam compares
Relative to the rest of the game, Vietnam is most expensive for apples, where it ranks 17th out of 32 countries at $2.81 — against a global median of $2.84.
It is relatively cheapest for coca-cola at $0.45, which is 32nd of 33 — only 1 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 62 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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Vietnam 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.