Who shares the most (prices)?
Posted By on 17/11/2012
Last week we shared the exciting news that the Expatistan Cost-of-Living Index had collected its 500,000th
user-submitted price. And we shouted out the countries whose users have
submitted the most total prices and the most prices per user.
But we wanted to share one more metric today: percentage of users from each country who share prices. We’ve ranked all the countries in the world by this number and shown the results below, both in a map and in a list. Check out the map and then scroll down to see the list of the top countries.

Rank | Country | % of users who share prices |
---|---|---|
1 | Argentina | 5.22 % |
2 | Czech Republic | 3.88 % |
3 | Poland | 3.72 % |
4 | Mexico | 3.38 % |
5 | Colombia | 3.23 % |
6 | Russia | 3.10 % |
7 | Portugal | 2.90 % |
8 | China | 2.58 % |
9 | Switzerland | 2.48 % |
10 | Spain | 2.47 % |
11 | South Africa | 2.39 % |
12 | Japan | 2.38 % |
13 | Romania | 2.37 % |
14 | Iran | 2.30 % |
15 | Brazil | 2.24 % |
16 | Thailand | 2.18 % |
17 | Italy | 2.17 % |
18 | Turkey | 2.04 % |
19 | Sweden | 1.98 % |
20 | Belgium | 1.90 % |
The list above shows that a jaw-dropping 5.22 percent of all Argentines (more than one out of twenty) who visit Expatistan enter prices into the Cost-of-Living index. That’s way ahead of any other country in the world, though users from any country on this list should be proud of their countrymen. (Even in Turkey, at 18 on the list, more than one out of every fifty visitors enters price.)
Is your country on the list? Great work! Why don’t you help keep it there by submitting prices on your home city?
And if your country isn’t on the list, how about fighting to get it there? You can help...