Nassau was the city with the highest grocery prices in Latin America and the Caribbean, as of mid-2020. The capital city of Bahamas scored 76.56 in the grocery price index ranking that year, followed by the Puerto Rican capital of San Juan, with an index score of 73.71. According to the calculation system used for the ranking, this means that people living in these two cities paid for groceries 23.44 percent and 26.29 percent less than the inhabitants of New York City, the city used as base for the index.
Cities with the highest grocery prices in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2020
(index score)
* The groceries index "is an estimation of grocery prices in the city compared to New York City", which is used as the base for the calculation, with a maximum score of 100 in the ranking. The difference between the score of New York City and the score of each listed city indicates the difference in percentage between the grocery prices of both cities.
Further information about the index methodology can be found here.
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Numbeo. (August 18, 2020). Cities with the highest grocery prices in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2020 (index score) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 30, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1154674/groceries-index-latin-american-caribbean-cities/
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Numbeo. (2020). Cities with the highest grocery prices in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2020 (index score). Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: December 30, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1154674/groceries-index-latin-american-caribbean-cities/
Numbeo. "Cities with The Highest Grocery Prices in Latin America and The Caribbean in 2020 (Index Score)." Statista, Statista Inc., 18 Aug 2020, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1154674/groceries-index-latin-american-caribbean-cities/
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