Purchasing Power Parity · Cambodia
Cost of living in 🇰🇭 Cambodia vs the United States
Cambodia has a US-relative price level of 0.36 (US = 1.0) — about 64% cheaper than the United States. Reference year 2025.
What US salaries are worth in Cambodia
| US income | Feels like (US-equivalent) | Cost of a US lifestyle |
|---|---|---|
| $50,000 | $138,889 | $18,000 |
| $80,000 | $222,222 | $28,800 |
| $120,000 | $333,333 | $43,200 |
| $180,000 | $500,000 | $64,800 |
| $250,000 | $694,444 | $90,000 |
“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 Cambodia's price level slightly differently; a tight spread means high confidence.
Consensus (median) 0.360 2025
World Bank — GDP 0.336 2025
IMF (WEO) 0.336 2025
Penn World Table 0.383 2023
World Bank — Consumption 0.367 2025
CIA Factbook (coverage) 0.330 2024
Cost of living around the world
Every country shaded by its price level relative to the US (darker = more expensive). Cambodia is outlined.
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Countries with a similar cost of living
- 🇬🇳 Guinea — price level 0.361
- 🇧🇳 Brunei — price level 0.358
- 🇦🇴 Angola — price level 0.357
- 🇸🇳 Senegal — price level 0.363
- 🇵🇾 Paraguay — price level 0.364
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Frequently asked questions
- How expensive is Cambodia compared to the United States?
- Cambodia has a price level of 0.36 relative to the US baseline of 1.0 (about 64% 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 Cambodia?
- In purchasing-power terms, $100,000 stretches to about $277,778 of US-equivalent lifestyle in Cambodia; conversely, sustaining a $100,000 US lifestyle there costs about $36,000.
- Where does the Cambodia 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.