The whole picture · price level, US = 100
All 83 countries on one spectrum
Each stripe is a country — the taller the stripe, the pricier.
cheapest · Nicaragua
priciest · Barbados
Price level · US = 100
Cheapest
1Nicaragua37.0
2Paraguay38.1
3Dominican Republic38.4
4Fiji38.7
5Bolivia39.1
lowest price level worldwide
Price level · US = 100
Most expensive
1Barbados131.9
2Iceland129.7
3Switzerland128.2
4Bahamas110.7
5Denmark104.5
highest price level worldwide
Homicide-based score · derived
Safest
1Vanuatu99
2Slovenia96
3Malta96
4Italy96
5Switzerland96
0–100, our transformation of UNODC rates
Widest gaps · computed
The most extreme pairs
price-level ratio between the two countries
Methodology
How the numbers work
Price level — World Bank PPP, US = 100WDI · 2025
Category basket — ICP, World = 100ICP · 2021
Safety — clamp(105 − 20·ln(1+rate), 0, 100)derived
U.S. states — BEA Regional Price ParitiesSARPP
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BEA parity · U.S. = 100
Cheapest states
1Arkansas86.9
2Mississippi87.0
3Oklahoma87.8
4Iowa87.8
5Louisiana88.2
how far a dollar goes
BEA parity · U.S. = 100
Priciest states
1California110.7
2Hawaii110.0
3District of Columbia109.9
4New Jersey108.8
5New York107.9
same dollar, less of it
BLS pay ÷ BEA prices
Best paid, after prices
1District of Columbia$8,038
2North Dakota$6,226
3Washington$6,124
4Massachusetts$5,828
5Alaska$5,824
monthly earnings adjusted for local prices
BLS · unemployment rate
Tightest job markets
1South Dakota2.0%
2North Dakota2.5%
3Vermont2.5%
4New Hampshire2.5%
5Wyoming2.6%
lowest unemployment, June 2026
BLS · unemployment rate
Where work is scarcer
1District of Columbia6.1%
2Kentucky5.6%
3Arizona5.5%
4Oregon5.3%
5California5.2%
highest unemployment, same month
BLS · average hourly earnings, year on year
Where pay is moving fastest
Rising
1New Mexico+9.0%
2District of Columbia+7.0%
3Hawaii+5.2%
4North Dakota+4.8%
5Virginia+4.3%
Falling behind
1Arkansas-1.3%
2Minnesota-1.1%
3Nebraska-0.2%
4Iowa+0.1%
5West Virginia+0.2%
nominal pay, not adjusted for inflation · June 2026 against the same month a year earlier
FBI homicide rate · derived score
Safest states
1New Hampshire91
2Idaho85
3Massachusetts84
4Rhode Island83
5Iowa81
0–100, our transformation of FBI rates
FBI homicide rate · per 100,000
Highest homicide rates
1New Mexico11.07
2Alabama9.30
3Louisiana9.49
4Tennessee8.18
5Missouri8.08
reported offences per 100,000 people