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Mexico vs Saint Lucia

Price level and homicide-based safety head to head, plus every ICP category both Mexico and Saint Lucia publish. Statistics, not reviews.

Price gap 1%Safety gap +9 ptsEducation +137%Price categories 25Release v2026-08Price gap 1%Safety gap +9 ptsEducation +137%Price categories 25Release v2026-08Price gap 1%Safety gap +9 ptsEducation +137%Price categories 25Release v2026-08Price gap 1%Safety gap +9 ptsEducation +137%Price categories 25Release v2026-08Price gap 1%Safety gap +9 ptsEducation +137%Price categories 25Release v2026-08Price gap 1%Safety gap +9 ptsEducation +137%Price categories 25Release v2026-08

Too close to call

On price, a coin toss

Mexico is only 1% cheaper overall — 58.8 against 59.1, too small a gap to decide a move on. Where the two really part company:

  • Coldest month10.4°C in Mexico against 26.2°C in Saint Lucia
  • Food price level173.3 in Saint Lucia against 101.6 in Mexico
  • Housing price level81.9 in Mexico against 49.8 in Saint Lucia
  • Homicide rate39 in Saint Lucia against 24.9 in Mexico

1Visa-free traveltourist stays

Do I need a visa for Mexico or Saint Lucia

Tourist entry rules in both directions: a passport from Mexico travelling to Saint Lucia, and a passport from Saint Lucia travelling to Mexico.

Mexico passport → Saint LuciaVisa-free · 42 days
Saint Lucia passport → MexicoVisa required
Long-term stay, either wayResidence permit

Tourist stays only, refreshed with each release. Long stays always need a consular check.

Scorecard

Line by line, who comes out ahead

A split table: Mexico wins 5, Saint Lucia wins 3, 1 level. The widest gap is food price level, 71%.

LineMEXSAIAhead
Food price level 101.6 173.3 MEX 71%
Housing price level 81.9 49.8 SAI 64%
Homicides per 100,000 24.9 39 MEX 57%
Transport price level 94.5 137 MEX 45%
Eating out price level 84.3 103.2 MEX 22%
Income at purchasing power $2,089 $2,182 SAI 4%
Health price level 83 80.3 SAI 3%
Income per head, a month $1,144 $1,118 MEX 2%
Overall price level 58.8 59.1 level

Lower wins for prices and homicides, higher for income. Lines within 2% count as level.

3Climate · capital cities

Weather and climate: Mexico against Saint Lucia, month by month

How warm and how wet each month is, averaged over twenty years. Measured in Mexico City and Castries — the capital city, not the whole country.

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Mexico City · Mexico Castries · Saint Lucia

Warmest

May (17.2°) vs September (28.6°)

Coldest

January (10.4°) vs February (26.2°)

Kinder months to visit

Apr–Jul in Mexico City · no month in the mild band in Castries

“Kinder months” is our own reading: a mean of 15–26 °C with moderate rain, measured at the capital.

4The basket

25 price tags, Mexico against Saint Lucia

World = 100, benchmark 2021 — sorted by the size of the gap. Diff is Saint Lucia relative to Mexico.

Category MEX SAI — Diff
Education 20.7 49.1 — +137%
Oils & fats 103.1 218.2 — +112%
Communication 68.8 135.5 — +97%
Fish & seafood 126.8 245.6 — +94%
Fruit 87.1 163.4 — +88%
Vegetables 122.9 223.3 — +82%
Milk, cheese, eggs 94.9 171.7 — +81%
Alcohol 88.2 159.0 — +80%
Non-alcoholic beverages 88.5 155.3 — +75%
Food & non-alcoholic drinks 100.2 171.0 — +71%
Food 101.6 173.3 — +71%
Bread & cereals 126.5 196.4 — +55%
Meat 86.8 129.0 — +49%
Tobacco 78.6 114.2 — +45%
Transport 94.5 137.0 — +45%
Vehicle purchase 94.5 131.9 — +40%
Housing & utilities 81.9 49.8 — -39%
Clothing & footwear 88.0 116.1 — +32%
Transport services 125.8 159.5 — +27%
Restaurants & hotels 84.3 103.2 — +22%
Household consumption (total) 81.8 92.5 — +13%
Recreation 79.5 89.4 — +12%
Furnishings & household 92.8 100.6 — +8%
Health 83.0 80.3 — -3%
Sugar & sweets 124.1 122.3 — -1%
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6Three movers, three answersderived from the figures above

Three answers

The earner

Wages usually track local prices: the 1% gap matters less when the paycheck is local too.

Mexico

The remote worker

A salary pegged elsewhere buys more where prices are lower — here that is Mexico.

Mexico

The cautious

The homicide-based score is 9 points apart, favouring Mexico.

Mexico

10What the numbers say

The split: cost favours Mexico by 1%, the homicide-based score favours Mexico by 9 points. Which matters more depends on whose paycheck crosses the border.

Editor’s note. Averages hide category stories: the widest single gap here is Education at +137%. Budget the move by category, not by the headline number.

Release v2026-08; homicide rates carry their own year per country. World ranks — #73 and #78 of 85 by score.

10bPlan your move

Which one suits you?

Fill in your situation — we score this pair against your numbers, then check the other 81 countries for a better fit.

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Guidance from published statistics, not immigration or financial advice — see the disclaimer.

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∑Plan your budget

What your month would cost after the move

Enter what you spend today. Each line is repriced with the ICP ratio for that category — your numbers, our coefficients.

Filling uses average household spending per person in each country, scaled to your household on the OECD-modified scale — the first adult counts as 1.0, every further adult as 0.5, every child as 0.3, because a second person in the same home does not double the rent or the heating. Two adults therefore stand at 1.5 people, not 2.

CategoryYou spend nowAfter the move
Rent & utilitiesHousing & utilities $ —
GroceriesFood & non-alcoholic drinks $ —
Eating outRestaurants & hotels $ —
TransportTransport $ —
HealthHealth $ —
RecreationRecreation $ —
Clothing & otherClothing & footwear $ —
Monthly total $0 $0

Starting figures are actual household spending per person (2025), scaled to your household on the OECD-modified scale and split by typical consumption shares, with category ratios from the same price survey as the basket above. Rent varies enormously by city and district — replace it with the figure you actually pay. Estimate, not advice.

13Sources & licences

Sources behind this comparison

Our calculations, not official figures.

Sources: World Bank WDI · ICP 2021 · UNODC via WDI · Passport Index · NASA POWER · Eurostat · BLS · Statistics Canada · release v2026-08

Price level index (Households and NPISHs final consumption expenditure)

Rights holder: The World Bank · World Development Indicators, PA.NUS.PRVT.PLI · reference year 2025 · accessed 22 July 2026 · data.worldbank.org · licence: CC BY 4.0, reuse subject to the World Bank Dataset Terms of Use. Values are reproduced as published; United States = 100 is the indicator’s own base. Every ranking, gap and comment is a Costely calculation. Note: The World Bank does not endorse this site.

Price level indices by expenditure category

Rights holder: The World Bank · International Comparison Program 2021, measure PX.WL · benchmark year 2021, published May 2024 · accessed 22 July 2026 · worldbank.org · licence: CC BY 4.0 — commercial use permitted, subject to the World Bank Dataset Terms of Use. World = 100 — a different base from the summary index above; the two are deliberately not merged.

Intentional homicides (per 100,000 people)

Rights holder: The World Bank (distribution); original data provider: UNODC (Intentional Homicide, UN-CTS) · WDI VC.IHR.PSRC.P5 · latest available year per country, marked on the page · accessed 22 July 2026 · data.worldbank.org · licence: CC BY 4.0 — these terms describe the World Bank distribution, not a licence we assign to UNODC data. Rates are reproduced exactly as published, per 100,000 population. Note: the homicide-based score — clamp(105 − 20·ln(1 + rate), 0, 100) — is our construction, not a World Bank or UNODC indicator, and covers intentional homicide only.

Visa-free travel and entry rules

Rights holder: Passport Index (Arton Capital) · open dataset · accessed 8 August 2026 · passport-index-dataset · licence: MIT — commercial use permitted with attribution. Codes cover tourist stays only; day counts are reproduced as published. Note: entry rules change frequently — always confirm with the consulate before booking.

Monthly temperature and rainfall

Rights holder: NASA Langley Research Center · POWER Project, MERRA-2 monthly climatology, T2M and PRECTOTCORR · averaging period January 2001 – December 2020 · accessed 13 August 2026 · power.larc.nasa.gov · U.S. Government work, public domain — free to use, including commercially. Each figure is the model grid cell containing the capital city, reproduced as published. Note: the capital is not the whole country, and the “kinder months to visit” band (15–26 °C mean, moderate rain) is a Costely reading, not a NASA recommendation. NASA does not endorse this site.

Wages in Europe

Rights holder: European Union, Eurostat · Structure of Earnings Survey, earn_ses_monthly — median and mean gross monthly earnings, all employees, industry, construction and services except public administration · reference year 2022 · accessed 14 August 2026 · ec.europa.eu/eurostat · reuse authorised with acknowledgement of the source, including for commercial purposes. Figures are reproduced as published; PPS values are Eurostat’s own adjustment for price differences between countries. Note: gross pay before tax and social contributions; the survey runs every four years, so 2022 is the latest wave. The European Commission does not endorse this site.

Pay by occupation group in Europe

Rights holder: European Union, Eurostat · Structure of earnings survey 2022 (earn_ses22_21), mean monthly earnings by occupation · mean gross monthly earnings in euro, enterprises with 10 employees or more, all ages, both sexes · retrieved 20 August 2026 via the Eurostat dissemination API · ec.europa.eu/eurostat · reuse authorised with acknowledgement of the source, including for commercial purposes. Earnings are reproduced as published; the difference column is a Costely calculation. Note: These are means, not medians, so large salaries pull them up; they are gross, before tax and social contributions. The survey runs every four years, so 2022 is the latest round. Occupations are the nine broad ISCO-08 groups — Europe publishes nothing finer, unlike the United States. Coverage is limited to EU, EFTA and candidate countries. These are means, while the median wage card on the same page comes from the same survey but is a different measure, so the two figures will not match. The European Commission does not endorse this site.

Food price levels in Europe

Rights holder: European Union, Eurostat · Purchasing power parities, price level indices by expenditure category (prc_ppp_ind) · EU27_2020 = 100, reference year 2024 · retrieved 20 August 2026 via the Eurostat dissemination API · ec.europa.eu/eurostat · reuse authorised with acknowledgement of the source, including for commercial purposes. Index values are reproduced as published; the difference column is a Costely calculation. Note: these are price levels, not prices — 100 is the EU average of the same year, so a value of 120 means dearer than the EU average by a fifth, and nothing about what a kilo costs. This measure is shown only when both countries of a pair are covered by Eurostat, which is the EU, EFTA and candidate countries; every other pair keeps the World Bank benchmark of 2021 on the World = 100 base, and the two must not be read against each other. A price level index says how a country compares with the EU average in the same year, not what anything costs. Values above 100 mean dearer than the EU average, below 100 cheaper. Coverage is limited to EU, EFTA and candidate countries, and this block is shown only when both countries are covered. The European Commission does not endorse this site.

Household energy prices in Europe

Rights holder: European Union, Eurostat · Energy prices for household consumers, bi-annual data (nrg_pc_204 electricity, nrg_pc_202 gas) · 2025-S2 · retrieved 20 August 2026 via the Eurostat dissemination API · ec.europa.eu/eurostat · reuse authorised with acknowledgement of the source, including for commercial purposes. Consumption bands: electricity band DC, 2 500-4 999 kWh a year; gas band D2, 20-199 GJ a year; both including all taxes and levies. Prices are in euro and reproduced as published; the difference column is a Costely calculation. Note: coverage is limited to EU, EFTA and candidate countries, because the reuse terms do not extend to data about other countries. Prices are per kilowatt-hour for a typical household band, including all taxes and levies, as published. Where a country has not reported the latest half-year, its most recent reported half-year is used and named in the row. Coverage is limited to EU, EFTA and candidate countries. The European Commission does not endorse this site.

Household spending per person

Rights holder: The World Bank · World Development Indicators, household final consumption expenditure per capita · spending per person converted to a month, in current US dollars · accessed not recorded — collected before the plugin stored provenance in the file · data.worldbank.org · licence: CC BY 4.0, reuse subject to the World Bank Dataset Terms of Use. Used only as the starting point of the cost planner; the split by category uses the International Comparison Program 2021 ratios listed above, and household size is scaled on the OECD-modified equivalence scale. Note: The monthly figure and the flag marking an estimated year are Costely calculations. The World Bank does not endorse this site.

Wages in the United States

Rights holder: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · Current Employment Statistics, national — average weekly earnings of all employees, total private, CES0500000011 · retrieved 14 August 2026 via the BLS Public Data API · bls.gov/ces · work of the U.S. Government, public domain — free to reuse, including commercially. The monthly figure is a Costely conversion from weekly earnings. Note: this is an average, while the European figures are medians, so the two are not measured the same way; averages sit above medians. BLS.gov cannot vouch for data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from BLS.gov. The BLS does not endorse this site.

Wages in Canada

Rights holder: Statistics Canada · Survey of Employment, Payrolls and Hours, table 14-10-0223-01, vector 79311153 — average weekly earnings including overtime, all employees, industrial aggregate excluding unclassified businesses, seasonally adjusted · May 2026 · accessed 14 August 2026 · www150.statcan.gc.ca · Statistics Canada Open Licence — reuse and redistribution permitted, including commercially, with acknowledgement of source. Reproduced and distributed on an “as is” basis with the permission of Statistics Canada. The published value is weekly; the monthly figure and the conversion to US dollars are Costely calculations. Note: this is a mean, unlike the Eurostat medians. Statistics Canada does not endorse this website.