Purchasing Power Parity · Gambia
Cost of living in 🇬🇲 Gambia vs the United States
Gambia has a US-relative price level of 0.266 (US = 1.0) — about 73% cheaper than the United States. Reference year 2025.
What US salaries are worth in Gambia
| US income | Feels like (US-equivalent) | Cost of a US lifestyle |
|---|---|---|
| $50,000 | $187,970 | $13,300 |
| $80,000 | $300,752 | $21,280 |
| $120,000 | $451,128 | $31,920 |
| $180,000 | $676,692 | $47,880 |
| $250,000 | $939,850 | $66,500 |
“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 Gambia's price level slightly differently; a tight spread means high confidence.
Consensus (median) 0.266 2025
World Bank — GDP 0.250 2025
IMF (WEO) 0.248 2025
Penn World Table 0.283 2023
World Bank — Consumption 0.287 2024
Cost of living around the world
Every country shaded by its price level relative to the US (darker = more expensive). Gambia is outlined.
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Countries with a similar cost of living
- 🇧🇩 Bangladesh — price level 0.267
- 🇧🇮 Burundi — price level 0.264
- 🇺🇿 Uzbekistan — price level 0.264
- 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka — price level 0.262
- 🇮🇷 Iran — price level 0.271
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Frequently asked questions
- How expensive is Gambia compared to the United States?
- Gambia has a price level of 0.266 relative to the US baseline of 1.0 (about 73% 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 Gambia?
- In purchasing-power terms, $100,000 stretches to about $375,940 of US-equivalent lifestyle in Gambia; conversely, sustaining a $100,000 US lifestyle there costs about $26,600.
- Where does the Gambia 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.