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title: "Cost of Living in Bhutan vs the US — Geo-Parity"
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Purchasing Power Parity · Bhutan

# Cost of living in 🇧🇹 Bhutan vs the United States

Bhutan has a US-relative price level of **0.236** (US = 1.0) — about 76% cheaper than the United States. Reference year 2025.

## What US salaries are worth in Bhutan

| US income | Feels like (US-equivalent) | Cost of a US lifestyle |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $50,000 | $211,864 | $11,800 |
| $80,000 | $338,983 | $18,880 |
| $120,000 | $508,475 | $28,320 |
| $180,000 | $762,712 | $42,480 |
| $250,000 | $1,059,322 | $59,000 |

“Feels like” = income ÷ price level; “cost of a US lifestyle” = income × price level. Try your own number in the [interactive calculator](https://geo-parity.com/?target=BT).

## How the sources compare

Each provider measures Bhutan's price level slightly differently; a tight spread means high confidence.

Consensus (median) 0.236 2025

World Bank — GDP 0.229 2025

IMF (WEO) 0.233 2025

Penn World Table 0.241 2023

World Bank — Consumption 0.242 2025

CIA Factbook (coverage) 0.231 2023

## Countries with a similar cost of living

- [🇸🇱 Sierra Leone](https://geo-parity.com/ppp/sierra-leone/) — price level 0.232
- [🇮🇳 India](https://geo-parity.com/ppp/india/) — price level 0.231
- [🇸🇩 Sudan](https://geo-parity.com/ppp/sudan/) — price level 0.241
- [🇳🇵 Nepal](https://geo-parity.com/ppp/nepal/) — price level 0.243
- [🇹🇯 Tajikistan](https://geo-parity.com/ppp/tajikistan/) — price level 0.246

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## Frequently asked questions

- **How expensive is Bhutan compared to the United States?**: Bhutan has a price level of 0.236 relative to the US baseline of 1.0 (about 76% cheaper than the United States), based on the median of independent votes from the World Bank/IMF (one vote — both use the official exchange rate), the Eurostat-OECD PPP programme and the Penn World Table, reference year 2025.
- **What is a $100,000 salary worth in Bhutan?**: In purchasing-power terms, $100,000 stretches to about $423,729 of US-equivalent lifestyle in Bhutan; conversely, sustaining a $100,000 US lifestyle there costs about $23,600.
- **Where does the Bhutan cost-of-living data come from?**: Real price-level figures from the World Bank, IMF World Economic Outlook, OECD, Eurostat and Penn World Table, blended as a per-country median of independent votes and refreshed at build time.

Figures are informational estimates from public datasets — not investment or relocation advice. Agents: GET /api/calculate.json?income=100000&target=BT.

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