Purchasing Power Parity · Burundi
Cost of living in 🇧🇮 Burundi vs the United States
Burundi has a US-relative price level of 0.264 (US = 1.0) — about 74% cheaper than the United States. Reference year 2023.
What US salaries are worth in Burundi
| US income | Feels like (US-equivalent) | Cost of a US lifestyle |
|---|---|---|
| $50,000 | $189,394 | $13,200 |
| $80,000 | $303,030 | $21,120 |
| $120,000 | $454,545 | $31,680 |
| $180,000 | $681,818 | $47,520 |
| $250,000 | $946,970 | $66,000 |
“Feels like” = income ÷ price level; “cost of a US lifestyle” = income × price level. Try your own number in the interactive calculator.
How the sources compare
Each provider measures Burundi's price level slightly differently; a tight spread means high confidence.
These sources disagree — the figure above is the Penn World Table figure alone, decided by a person, not a blend.
Exchange regime: parallel market. The IMF's ECF programme lists unification of the official and parallel markets as a key commitment: a 38% official devaluation on 4 May 2023 cut the parallel premium to about 40%, and it has since widened beyond 55%. The World Bank official rate (2,943 in 2025) therefore overstates the franc; its price level (0.34) and the IMF's (0.481) both divide by it. Penn World Table (0.264, 2023) is preferred.
Checked 2026-09-09 against secondary sources; the authority's own page could not be read.
Cost of living around the world
Every country shaded by its price level relative to the US (darker = more expensive). Burundi is outlined.
Countries with a similar cost of living
- 🇺🇿 Uzbekistan — price level 0.264
- 🇬🇲 Gambia — price level 0.266
- 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka — price level 0.262
- 🇧🇩 Bangladesh — price level 0.267
- 🇮🇷 Iran — price level 0.271
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Frequently asked questions
- How expensive is Burundi compared to the United States?
- Burundi has a price level of 0.264 relative to the US baseline of 1.0 (about 74% cheaper than the United States), based on the Penn World Table figure alone — the sources disagree and a curated exchange-regime register names the one to believe, reference year 2023.
- What is a $100,000 salary worth in Burundi?
- In purchasing-power terms, $100,000 stretches to about $378,788 of US-equivalent lifestyle in Burundi; conversely, sustaining a $100,000 US lifestyle there costs about $26,400.
- Where does the Burundi cost-of-living data come from?
- Real price-level figures from the World Bank, IMF World Economic Outlook, OECD, Eurostat and Penn World Table, refreshed at build time. For Burundi the sources disagree (parallel market): The IMF's ECF programme lists unification of the official and parallel markets as a key commitment: a 38% official devaluation on 4 May 2023 cut the parallel premium to about 40%, and it has since widened beyond 55%. The World Bank official rate (2,943 in 2025) therefore overstates the franc; its price level (0.34) and the IMF's (0.481) both divide by it. Penn World Table (0.264, 2023) is preferred.