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Mercer Human Resource Consulting Cost of Living Survey - Worldwide Ranking 2007 (including housing) Rankings
March 2007 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 26 28 29 30 31 31 33 34 March 2006 1 5 2 3 4 8 7 6 9 10 13 12 15 17 10 18 24 21 21 14 19 25 36 27 41 53 20 21 59 52 56 48 45 25 MOSCOW LONDON SEOUL TOKYO HONG KONG COPENHAGEN GENEVA OSAKA ZURICH OSLO MILAN ST. PETERSBURG PARIS SINGAPORE NEW YORK CITY, NY DUBLIN TEL AVIV ROME VIENNA BEIJING SYDNEY HELSINKI STOCKHOLM DOUALA AMSTERDAM MADRID SHANGHAI KIEV ATHENS ALMATY BARCELONA BRATISLAVA DAKAR DUBAI City Country Russia United Kingdom South Korea Japan Hong Kong Denmark Switzerland Japan Switzerland Norway Italy Russia France Singapore United States Ireland Israel Italy Austria China Australia Finland Sweden Cameroon Netherlands Spain China Ukraine Greece Kazakhstan Spain Slovak Republic Senegal United Arab Emirates
COL Index
March 2007 134.4 126.3 122.4 122.1 119.4 110.2 109.8 108.4 107.6 105.8 104.4 103 101.4 100.4 100 99.6 97.7 97.6 96.9 95.9 94.9 93.3 93.1 92.9 92.2 92.1 92.1 91.4 90.6 89.6 89.2 89.2 89 88.8 March 2006 123.9 110.6 121.7 119.1 116.3 101.1 103 108.3 100.8 100 96.9 99.7 93.1 92 100 91.8 89.7 89.8 89.8 94.9 91.3 87.8 84.8 87.6 83.4 81.6 91.2 89.8 81.1 81.9 81.2 82.4 82.8 87.8
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Worldwide Cost of Living Survey 2007 London, embargoed from publication until 00.01 hrs (BST), Monday 18 June 2007
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ABIDJAN GLASGOW LAGOS ISTANBUL MUNICH FRANKFURT BIRMINGHAM LOS ANGELES, CA LUXEMBOURG BRUSSELS ABU DHABI BERLIN DUSSELDORF TAIPEI PRAGUE ALGIERS
Côte d'Ivoire United Kingdom Nigeria Turkey Germany Germany United Kingdom United States Luxembourg Belgium United Arab Emirates Germany Germany Taiwan Czech Republic Algeria
88.3 88.1 88 87.7 87.6 87.4 87.2 87.1 87 86.5 85.9 85.9 85.9 85.8 85.6 85.1
82.8 80.7 85.5 93.1 80.2 80.5 79.7 86.7 81.2 79.5 86 79.2 80.4 86.8 82.1 82
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