Cost of living index

Rank 2009 Rank 2008 City Country Index 2009 Index 2008 1 2 TOKYO JAPAN 143.7 127 2 11 OSAKA JAPAN 119.2 110 3 1 MOSCOW RUSSIA 115.4 142.4 4 8 GENEVA SWITZERLAND 109.2 115.8 5 6 HONG KONG HONG KONG 108.7 117.6 6 9 ZURICH SWITZERLAND 105.2 112.7 7 7 COPENHAGEN DENMARK 105.0 117.2 8 22 NEW YORK CITY US 100.0 100.0 9 20 BEIJING CHINA 99.6 101.9 10 13 SINGAPORE SINGAPORE 98.0 109.1 11 10 MILAN ITALY 96.9 111.3 12 24 SHANGAI CHINA 95.2 98.3 13 12 PARIS FRANCE 95.1 109.4 14 4 OSLO NORWAY 94.2 118.3 15 89 CARACAS VENEZUELA 93.3 79.3 16 3 LONDON UK 92.7 125 17 14 TEL AVIV ISRAEL 91.9 105 18 16 ROME ITALY 91.2 103.9 19 21 HELSINKI FINLAND 90.5 101.1 20 52 DUBAI UAE 90.1 89.3 21 19 VIENNA AUSTRIA 89.3 102.3 22 61 SHENZHEN CHINA 89.0 86.3 23 55 LOS ANGELES US 87.6 87.5 23 70 GUANGZHOU CHINA 87.6 83.9 25 16 DUBLIN IRELAND 87.4 103.9 26 65 ABU DHABI UAE 86.7 85.7 27 34 DOUALA CAMEROUN 86.1 95.1 28 25 ATHENS GREECE 85.9 97 29 25 AMSTERDAM NETHERLANDS 85.7 97 30 45 BRATISLAVA SLOVAKIA 84.8 90.6 31 89 WHITE PLAINS US 84.7 79.3 32 30 LAGOS NIGERIA 84.6 95.9 33 74 TEHRAN IRAN 84.1 82.2 34 51 ABIDJAN IVORY COAST 82.5 89.6 34 41 DAKAR SENEGAL 82.5 92.2 34 78 SAN FRANCISCO US 82.5 81 37 28 MADRID SPAIN 82.3 96.7 38 43 LUXEMBOURG LUXEMBOURG 82.1 91.3 38 31 BARCELONA SPAIN 82.1 95.2 40 57 ALGIERS ALGERIA 81.7 86.8 41 77 HONOLULU US 81.6 81.4 41 39 BRUSSELS BELGIUM 81.6 92.9 41 80 BEIRUT LEBANON 81.6 80.8 44 44 ALMATY KAZAKHSTAN 81.5 90.7 45 75 MIAMI US 81.4 82 46 18 ST PETERSBOURG RUSSIA 81.3 103.1 47 37 MUNICH GERMANY 81.2 93.1 48 40 FRANKFURT GERMANY 80.9 92.5 49 38 BERLIN GERMANY 80.8 93 50 84 CHICAGO US 80.7 80.3