🇲🇽 Cost of Living in Mexico
a real food-cost index of 88 (world average = 100).
Food-cost index
88
World average = 100 — VanBasket / World Bank ICP
Est. restaurant meal
$13.20
$15 world-average anchor x food-cost index
Healthcare & safety
No data
Not tracked for this country
We deliberately don't show housing, transport, utilities, or childcare costs here — no free, legal, per-country dataset for those exists that we could verify. Showing only what real data supports, and disclosing the gap, beats inventing a plausible-looking number.
Frequently asked questions
Is Mexico expensive to live in?
Its real food-cost index is 88 (world average = 100), meaning restaurant meals there run about $13.20 on our disclosed $15 world-average-meal basis.
What is the cost of living in Mexico per month?
A verified monthly cost-of-living estimate wasn't available for Mexico.
What's included in this cost-of-living figure?
Exactly what real data supports: the food-cost index, the derived restaurant-meal price. We deliberately don't show housing, transport, or utilities estimates here — no verified free dataset publishes those by country, and we'd rather disclose the gap than invent a number.
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Data: VanBasket / World Bank ICP food-cost index.