Purchasing Power Parity · Kyrgyzstan
Cost of living in 🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan vs the United States
Kyrgyzstan has a US-relative price level of 0.306 (US = 1.0) — about 69% cheaper than the United States. Reference year 2024.
What US salaries are worth in Kyrgyzstan
| US income | Feels like (US-equivalent) | Cost of a US lifestyle |
|---|---|---|
| $50,000 | $163,399 | $15,300 |
| $80,000 | $261,438 | $24,480 |
| $120,000 | $392,157 | $36,720 |
| $180,000 | $588,235 | $55,080 |
| $250,000 | $816,993 | $76,500 |
“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 Kyrgyzstan's price level slightly differently; a tight spread means high confidence.
These sources disagree — the figure above is the World Bank figure alone, decided by a person, not a blend.
Exchange regime: managed float. No parallel market: the IMF's 2025 Article IV records an exchange system 'free of multiple currency practices' and the som's official rate (87 per dollar, 2023-2024) is the market rate. Penn World Table's 0.18 (2023) is the outlier against World Bank and IMF at 0.306 (2024) and has no exchange-rate explanation; the World Bank figure 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). Kyrgyzstan is outlined.
Countries with a similar cost of living
- 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan — price level 0.298
- 🇹🇿 Tanzania — price level 0.297
- 🇲🇬 Madagascar — price level 0.296
- 🇷🇺 Russia — price level 0.316
- 🇹🇭 Thailand — price level 0.295
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Frequently asked questions
- How expensive is Kyrgyzstan compared to the United States?
- Kyrgyzstan has a price level of 0.306 relative to the US baseline of 1.0 (about 69% cheaper than the United States), based on the World Bank figure alone — the sources disagree and a curated exchange-regime register names the one to believe, reference year 2024.
- What is a $100,000 salary worth in Kyrgyzstan?
- In purchasing-power terms, $100,000 stretches to about $326,797 of US-equivalent lifestyle in Kyrgyzstan; conversely, sustaining a $100,000 US lifestyle there costs about $30,600.
- Where does the Kyrgyzstan 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 Kyrgyzstan the sources disagree (managed float): No parallel market: the IMF's 2025 Article IV records an exchange system 'free of multiple currency practices' and the som's official rate (87 per dollar, 2023-2024) is the market rate. Penn World Table's 0.18 (2023) is the outlier against World Bank and IMF at 0.306 (2024) and has no exchange-rate explanation; the World Bank figure is preferred.