🍔 Burgernomics is our riff on the Big Mac Index — the cheeky yardstick The Economist cooked up back in 1986 to check whether currencies are fairly priced by comparing the cost of a McDonald's Big Mac around the world. Same burger, wildly different prices. Here we take the idea further: pick two countries and compare what everyday life really costs, from a pint of milk to a tank of petrol.
Prices are real, sourced local figures (Big Mac from The Economist, petrol from GlobalPetrolPrices, everything else Numbeo-referenced for major countries) converted at live exchange rates. Where we don’t yet have a sourced price for a country, the tile shows “No data” rather than a guess. “≈” marks US-state figures (the US price scaled by that state’s cost-of-living index). Click any item for its exact spec and sources. For general guidance — not a substitute for local research.