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title: "Countries With the Cheapest Healthy Diet — Geo-Parity"
description: "The World Bank's measured cost of a healthy diet per person per day, from local retail prices — cheapest first, in US dollars."
canonical: "https://geo-parity.com/best/countries-with-the-cheapest-healthy-diet/"
generator: geo-parity markdown twin
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# Where does eating well cost least?

Pakistan leads on per person per day at $0.92 a day; Burkina Faso is last of the 15 shown at $1.30 a day.

Most cost-of-living comparisons, including the grocery prices elsewhere on this site, model food from a country's overall price level. This ranking does not: it is the World Bank's measured cost of the cheapest combination of local foods that meets a healthy-diet standard, priced from what shops actually charge.

Checked against it, modelled grocery prices understate food by about 30% at the median across 153 countries — the United States, which such models are usually priced from, is an unusually cheap place to eat well. The food tool shows the gap country by country.

It is a least-cost diet per person, not what a typical household spends, and a cheap diet can still be out of reach: the tool shows the share of people who cannot afford it. A country whose local figure does not convert consistently at the official exchange rate is left out rather than shown at a misleading dollar price.

| # | Country | Per person per day |  |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | [🇵🇰 Pakistan](https://geo-parity.com/ppp/pakistan/) | $0.92 a day | 2025 |
| 2 | [🇹🇿 Tanzania](https://geo-parity.com/ppp/tanzania/) | $0.92 a day | 2025 |
| 3 | [🇮🇳 India](https://geo-parity.com/ppp/india/) | $0.93 a day | 2025 |
| 4 | [🇪🇬 Egypt](https://geo-parity.com/ppp/egypt/) | $0.95 a day | 2025 |
| 5 | [🇳🇵 Nepal](https://geo-parity.com/ppp/nepal/) | $1.06 a day | 2025 |
| 6 | [🇧🇾 Belarus](https://geo-parity.com/ppp/belarus/) | $1.11 a day | 2025 |
| 7 | [🇨🇩 DR Congo](https://geo-parity.com/ppp/dr-congo/) | $1.13 a day | 2025 |
| 8 | [🇰🇿 Kazakhstan](https://geo-parity.com/ppp/kazakhstan/) | $1.13 a day | 2025 |
| 9 | [🇷🇺 Russia](https://geo-parity.com/ppp/russia/) | $1.13 a day | 2025 |
| 10 | [🇲🇬 Madagascar](https://geo-parity.com/ppp/madagascar/) | $1.19 a day | 2025 |
| 11 | [🇷🇼 Rwanda](https://geo-parity.com/ppp/rwanda/) | $1.19 a day | 2025 |
| 12 | [🇧🇯 Benin](https://geo-parity.com/ppp/benin/) | $1.21 a day | 2025 |
| 13 | [🇬🇲 Gambia](https://geo-parity.com/ppp/gambia/) | $1.29 a day | 2025 |
| 14 | [🇱🇰 Sri Lanka](https://geo-parity.com/ppp/sri-lanka/) | $1.29 a day | 2025 |
| 15 | [🇧🇫 Burkina Faso](https://geo-parity.com/ppp/burkina-faso/) | $1.30 a day | 2025 |

**How this is worked out:** Cost of a healthy diet (CoHD), World Bank Food Prices for Nutrition, local currency converted at the site's FX snapshot, newest year per country, lowest first. Countries failing the exchange-rate consistency check are excluded. Refreshed 2026-09-18. Estimates for comparison, not advice.

## Check your own numbers

A ranking is a starting point, not an answer — your income, household and destination change the order. The [Food cost](https://geo-parity.com/expenses/?tab=food) runs the same engine against your own figures, and every country above links to its own page.

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