Purchasing Power Parity · Guinea-Bissau
Cost of living in 🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau vs the United States
Guinea-Bissau has a US-relative price level of 0.343 (US = 1.0) — about 66% cheaper than the United States. Reference year 2025.
What US salaries are worth in Guinea-Bissau
| US income | Feels like (US-equivalent) | Cost of a US lifestyle |
|---|---|---|
| $50,000 | $145,773 | $17,150 |
| $80,000 | $233,236 | $27,440 |
| $120,000 | $349,854 | $41,160 |
| $180,000 | $524,781 | $61,740 |
| $250,000 | $728,863 | $85,750 |
“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 Guinea-Bissau's price level slightly differently; a tight spread means high confidence.
Consensus (median) 0.343 2025
World Bank — GDP 0.341 2025
IMF (WEO) 0.396 2025
Penn World Table 0.317 2023
World Bank — Consumption 0.386 2025
Cost of living around the world
Every country shaded by its price level relative to the US (darker = more expensive). Guinea-Bissau is outlined.
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Countries with a similar cost of living
- 🇲🇳 Mongolia — price level 0.345
- 🇨🇬 Republic of the Congo — price level 0.345
- 🇪🇹 Ethiopia — price level 0.34
- 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan — price level 0.337
- 🇬🇭 Ghana — price level 0.35
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Frequently asked questions
- How expensive is Guinea-Bissau compared to the United States?
- Guinea-Bissau has a price level of 0.343 relative to the US baseline of 1.0 (about 66% 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 Guinea-Bissau?
- In purchasing-power terms, $100,000 stretches to about $291,545 of US-equivalent lifestyle in Guinea-Bissau; conversely, sustaining a $100,000 US lifestyle there costs about $34,300.
- Where does the Guinea-Bissau 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.