Cost of living
Unit: USD/month
All 20 reporting countries — sort by value or name
20 countries · latest reported year each · Capital-city 1-bedroom apartment monthly rent (USD)
Capital-city 1-bedroom monthly rent from each country's national statistical office. Heterogeneous methodology + cadence — see per-row notes in the seed JSON for source URL + native-currency basis + vintage caveats. US is populated separately by hud_fmr.py.
Every fact rendered on a country page deep-links to this source. We don't copy values blindly — our ingestion pipeline fetches directly from the publisher and logs every run so the provenance chain is verifiable.
Source: National statistical offices (heterogeneous — see notes per row)Latest non-null value per country (20 reporting)
Across the 20 countries reporting, the world median is 1,382USD/month. Both columns are sorted purely by value — interpretation (whether higher is "better") depends on the indicator.
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