Burger Price
Atlas
One familiar burger. A world of different prices.
Explore Big Mac sandwich prices in local currencies and US dollars, compare burger purchasing-power parity, and follow the changes over time.
July 2026 edition 54 marketsSurvey prices and exchange rates from the same edition. These are not live menu prices. Source checked 1 November 2026. No newer survey observations found; July 2026 prices and exchange rates retained.
Where does your dollar go?
Choose an edition to compare markets on a consistent date. Prices are for one burger, not a meal.
| PPP rank¹ | Market | Local price | US dollars | vs US price² | Implied PPP³ |
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¹ Rank 1 = lowest USD price / most below US burger parity, among markets shown in the edition. Search does not change ranks. ² Negative = cheaper than the US burger. ³ Local currency units per US$1 at burger parity. Scroll sideways on smaller screens. Select a market for its history.
Follow the burger through time.
View the historical figures
| Date | Currency | Local price | US dollars | vs US price |
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Same idea. Very different bill.
Lowest dollar prices
Highest dollar prices
Both charts share the same scale. India uses a different burger; the euro area is a grouped market.
A burger is a lens, not the whole economy.
How the US-dollar price and parity work
US-dollar price = local burger price ÷ the edition’s market exchange rate, expressed as local currency units per US dollar. We display The Economist’s published dollar prices. Raw burger parity difference = (market’s US-dollar price ÷ US burger price − 1) × 100. Implied burger-PPP rate = local burger price ÷ US burger price.
A negative difference means the burger costs less than its US counterpart at the survey exchange rate. It is often described as an “undervalued” currency in this one-product model. It is not evidence that the currency must appreciate. The table’s PPP rank orders this raw comparison from most negative to most positive; the US is included.
What is comparable — and what is not?
Prices vary by outlet, tax treatment and local menu. The source does not provide a harmonised tax-inclusion flag for every observation; these figures are not a tax-normalised comparison. Delivery fees, meals and promotional offers are not substituted for the published sandwich observations. India’s observation uses the Maharaja Mac alternative; it is not a beef Big Mac. The euro area is a single aggregate, not an additional country, and Hong Kong and Taiwan are presented as separate dataset markets. Missing observations are not carried forward. Historical charts cover only the 54 markets in the July 2026 edition, and each edition may cover fewer of them.
These are nominal prices, not inflation-adjusted prices. US-dollar movements combine local price changes and currency movements. Local-currency charts separate out the exchange-rate effect, but are split where currency codes change. Lines connect survey observations; they are not daily price readings.
Sources, licence and methodology changes
Price data © The Economist, used under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. See the original dataset and methodology and The Economist’s Big Mac index. This project reformats the price observations and calculates its own table ranks, raw parity comparisons and implied PPP rates. The data licence does not extend to Economist articles, design or third-party content.
The Economist changed its US price source in July 2022, from a four-city average to a price supplied by McDonald’s. This affects comparisons across that date. We use the raw price comparison here, not The Economist’s separate GDP-adjusted index. The bundled dataset was retrieved on 29 October 2026 and checked against the current raw-index CSV on 1 November 2026: all 1,985 retained observations match at the stored precision. The latest observation remains 1 July 2026, covering 54 markets; no monthly observations have been added. Prices come from McDonald’s and The Economist’s reporting. Exchange rates come from Thomson Reuters through January 2022 and Refinitiv Datastream from July 2022, as documented by The Economist. Each conversion retains its survey edition’s exchange rate; no current exchange rates are mixed with old prices. The dataset date identifies the edition, not a verified purchase or FX fixing date for every outlet. The repository release list still labels January 2025 as its latest tagged release, while the current raw-index CSV contains July 2026 observations. This atlas follows the CSV, not the release label. It is a dated snapshot, reviewed periodically, not a live price feed.