Purchasing Power Parity · Liberia
Cost of living in 🇱🇷 Liberia vs the United States
Liberia has a US-relative price level of 0.496 (US = 1.0) — about 50% cheaper than the United States. Reference year 2023.
What US salaries are worth in Liberia
| US income | Feels like (US-equivalent) | Cost of a US lifestyle |
|---|---|---|
| $50,000 | $100,806 | $24,800 |
| $80,000 | $161,290 | $39,680 |
| $120,000 | $241,935 | $59,520 |
| $180,000 | $362,903 | $89,280 |
| $250,000 | $504,032 | $124,000 |
“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 Liberia's price level slightly differently; a tight spread means high confidence.
Consensus (median) 0.496 2023
Penn World Table 0.496 2023
Cost of living around the world
Every country shaded by its price level relative to the US (darker = more expensive). Liberia is outlined.
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Countries with a similar cost of living
- 🇸🇹 São Tomé and Príncipe — price level 0.493
- 🇨🇱 Chile — price level 0.487
- 🇨🇩 DR Congo — price level 0.486
- 🇵🇪 Peru — price level 0.507
- 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe — price level 0.508
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Frequently asked questions
- How expensive is Liberia compared to the United States?
- Liberia has a price level of 0.496 relative to the US baseline of 1.0 (about 50% 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 2023.
- What is a $100,000 salary worth in Liberia?
- In purchasing-power terms, $100,000 stretches to about $201,613 of US-equivalent lifestyle in Liberia; conversely, sustaining a $100,000 US lifestyle there costs about $49,600.
- Where does the Liberia 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.