The most expensive cities according to Mercer 2019

Mercer, a human resources consulting firm, has published the 2019 ranking of the most expensive cities per the living cost of an expatriate. This ranking is based on the prices of 200 products and services such as housing, transportation and food products...

Atlas Magazine reviews this study by classifying the cities by continent.

Africa: the most expensive cities in 2019

Regional ranking	Global ranking	City	Country
1	11	Ndjamena	Chad
2	14	Victoria	Seychelles
3	22	Kinshasa	D.R of Congo
4	24	Libreville	Gabon
5	25	Lagos	Nigeria
6	26	Luanda	Angola
7	30	Abidjan	Côte d'Ivoire
8	39	Brazzaville	Congo
9	52	Yaounde	Cameroon
10	54	Bangui	Central African Republic
11	59	Djibouti	Djibouti
12	63	Accra	Ghana
13	66	Douala	Cameroon
14	72	Dakar	Senegal
15	85	Abuja	Nigeria
16	88	Conakry	Guinea
17	97	Nairobi	Kenya
18	124	Bamako	Mali
19	128	Cotonou	Benin
20	128	Casablanca	Morocco
21	145	Lome	Togo
22	145	Ouagadougou	Burkina Faso
23	149	Niamey	Niger
24	159	Maputo	Mozambique
25	160	Rabat	Morocco
26	161	Port Louis	Mauritius
27	166	Cairo	Egypt
28	169	Santo Domingo	Dominican Rep
29	171	Dar Es Salaam	Tanzania
30	171	Addis Ababa	Ethiopia
31	175	Kigali	Rwanda
32	180	The cap	South Africa
33	183	Kampala	Uganda
34	184	Alger	Algeria
35	185	Johannesburg	South Africa
36	188	Harare	Zimbabwe
37	189	Gaborone	Botswana
38	192	Nouakchott	Mauritania
39	193	Blantyre	Malawi
40	196	Lusaka	Zambia
41	204	Windhoek	Namibia
42	204	Banjul	Gambia
43	209	Tunis	Tunisia

Near and Middle East*: the most expensive cities in 2019

Regional ranking	Global ranking	City	Country
1	21	Dubai	United Arab Emirates
2	33	Abu Dhabi	United Arab Emirates
3	35	Riyadh	Saudi Arabia
4	53	Beirut	Lebanon
5	57	Manama	Bahrain
6	75	Amman	Jordan
7	100	Jeddah	Saudi Arabia
8	103	Muscat	Oman
9	115	Doha	Qatar
10	119	Kuwait	Kuwait
11	154	Istanbul	Turkey

* including Turkey

Europe: the most expensive cities in 2019

Regional ranking	Global ranking	City	Country
1	5	Zurich	Swiss
2	12	Bern	Swiss
3	13	Geneva	Swiss
4	20	Copenhagen	Denmark
5	23	London	United Kingdom
6	27	Moscow	Russia
7	43	Dublin	Ireland
8	45	Milan	Italy
9	47	Paris	France
10	51	Vienna	Austria
11	55	Rome	Italy
12	58	Amsterdam	Netherlands
13	61	Oslo	Norway
14	65	Helsinki	Finland
15	67	Munich	Germany
16	74	Frankfurt	Germany
17	75	St. Petersburg	Russia
18	77	Brussels	Belgium
19	81	Berlin	Germany
20	82	Madrid	Spain
21	84	Luxembourg	luxembourg
22	91	Barcelona	Spain
23	92	Düsseldorf	Germany
24	95	Lisbon	Portugal
25	97	Prague	Rep. Czech
26	100	Hamburg	Germany
27	111	Riga	Latvia
28	114	Wellington	New Zealand
29	123	Lyon	France
30	125	Pointe à Pitre	France
31	126	Stuttgart	Germany
32	127	Stockholm	Sweden
33	128	Athens	Greece
34	131	Bratislava	Slovakia
35	135	Birmingham	United Kingdom
36	137	Aberdeen	United Kingdom
37	140	Tallinn	Estonia
38	142	Ljubljana	Slovenia
39	143	Zagreb	Croatia
40	145	Glasgow	United Kingdom
41	150	Kiev	Ukraine
42	151	Nuremberg	Germany
43	152	Vilnius	Lithuania
44	156	Leipzig	Germany
45	158	Belfast	United Kingdom
46	161	Limassol	Cyprus
47	164	Budapest	Hungary
48	166	Tirana	Albania
49	173	Warsaw	Poland
50	176	Bucharest	Romania
51	177	Sofia	Bulgaria
52	181	Belgrade	Serbia
53	194	Sarajevo	Bosnia and Herzegovina
54	198	Minsk	Belarus
55	201	Skopje	Macedonia
56	202	Tbilisi	Georgia

Asia: the most expensive cities in 2019

Regional ranking	Global ranking	City	Country
1	1	Hong Kong	Hong Kong
2	2	Tokyo	Japan
3	3	Singapore	Singapore
4	4	Seoul	South Korea
5	6	Shanghai	China
6	7	Ashgabat	Turkmenistan
7	8	Beijing	China
8	10	Shenzhen	China
9	17	Guangzhou	China
10	19	Osaka	Japan
11	27	Nanjing	China
12	30	Chengdu	China
13	32	Tianjin	China
14	33	Nagoya	Japan
15	35	Taipei	Taiwan
16	40	Bangkok	Thailand
17	41	Qingdao	China
18	45	Shenyang	China
19	47	Dhaka	Bangladesh
20	67	Mumbai	India
21	79	Melbourne	Australia
22	102	Bandar Seri Begawan	Brunei
23	105	Jakarta	Indonesia
24	108	Phnom Penh	Cambodia
25	109	Manila	Philippines
26	112	Hanoi	Vietnam
27	117	Yangon	Myanmar
28	118	New Delhi	India
29	120	Ho Chi Minh City	Vietnam
30	141	Kuala Lumpur	Malaysia
31	154	Chennai	India
32	178	Baku	Azerbaijan
33	179	Bangalore	India
34	182	Colombo	Sri Lanka
35	189	Calcutta	India
36	191	Almaty	kazakhstan
37	197	Yerevan	Armenia
38	203	Islamabad	Pakistan
39	206	Bishkek	kyrgyzstan
40	207	Karachi	Pakistan
41	208	Tashkent	Uzbekistan

Americas*: the most expensive cities in 2019

Regional ranking	Global ranking	City	Country
1	9	New York	United States
2	16	San Francisco	United States
3	18	Los Angeles	United States
4	37	Chicago	United States
5	38	Honolulu	United States
6	42	Washington	United States
7	44	Miami	United States
8	49	Boston	United States
9	56	White Plains	United States
10	59	Houston	United States
11	62	Dallas	United States
12	64	Seattle	United States
13	69	Atlanta	United States
14	70	Montevideo	Uruguay
15	70	Morristown	United States
16	72	San Juan	Porto Rico
17	78	Minneapolis	United States
18	79	Santiago	Chile
19	83	Port Of Spain	Trinidad & Tobago
20	86	Sao Paulo	Brazil
21	90	Detroit	United States
22	93	Panama City	Panama
23	94	St. Louis	United States
24	97	Pittsburgh	United States
25	106	Cleveland	United States
26	107	Portland	United States
27	112	Vancouver	Canada
28	115	Toronto	Canada
29	121	Rio De Janeiro	Brazil
30	121	Lima	Peru
31	131	San Jose	Costa Rica
32	133	Buenos Aires	Argentina
33	133	Havana	Cuba
34	136	Guatemala City	Guatemala
35	138	Winston Salem	United States
36	139	Montreal	Canada
37	144	Mexico City	Mexico
38	148	Quito	Ecuador
39	153	Calgary	Canada
40	157	Kingston	Jamaica
41	161	Ottawa	Canada
42	165	Port au Prince	Haiti
43	166	San Salvador	El Salvador
44	170	Bogota	Colombia
45	174	Brasilia	Brazil
46	186	Asunción	Paraguay
47	187	Monterrey	Mexico
48	195	La Paz	Bolivia
49	199	Tegucigalpa	Honduras
50	200	Managua	Nicaragua

* North America, South and Central America

Oceania: the most expensive cities in 2019

Regional ranking	Global ranking	City	Country
1	29	Noumea	New Caledonia
2	50	Sydney	Australia
3	87	Perth	Australia
4	89	Auckland	New Zealand
5	96	Canberra	Australia
6	103	Brisbane	Australia
7	109	Adelaide	Australia

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