A Tribute to Bread

This table contains prices of similar loaves of French/Italian bread, ordered by equivalent value in U.S. dollars, using exchange rates at the time the bread was eaten. These breads are not identical in quality, and come from a variety of merchants (supermarket, restaurants, street stands etc).

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The Price of Bread

In U.S. dollars

Capital City

367

guaranies

$0.10

Asuncion, Paraguay

100

West African Francs/CFA

$0.20

Bamako, Mali

1.8

dirham

$0.21

Rabat, Morocco

150,000

Lira

$0.23

Ankara, Turkey

500

Meticais

$0.23

Maputo, Mozambique

2000

Kip

$0.24

Vientiane, Laos

150

West African Franc/CFA

$0.30

Dakar, Senegal

5

Lempira

$0.30

Tegucigalpa, Honduras

300

Shillings

$0.30

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

450 Tugrik $0.30 Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia

3.5

Namibian dollars

$0.33

Windhoek, Namibia

12 Som $0.35 Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

0.62

Fiji dollar

$0.37

Suva, Fiji

100

Ouguiya

$0.40

Nouakchott, Mauritania

43

Pacifique francs

$0.43

Pape'ete, Tahiti, French Polynesia

160

Colones

$0.50

San Jose, Costa Rica

6.43

Pesos

$0.50

Montevideo, Uruguay

4

French francs

$0.53

Marigot, French St. Martin

55

U.S. cents

$0.55

Panama City, Panama

1.5

Eastern Caribbean dollars

$0.56

Kingstown, St. Vincent

44

Shillings

$0.56

Nairobi, Kenya

0.60

Pesos

$0.60

Buenos Aires, Argentina

180 Dram $0.60 Yerevan, Armenia

60

U.S. cents

$0.60

Quito, Ecuador

110

Pesetas

$0.60

Andorra, Andorra

35 Dinar $0.63 Belgrade, Serbia

1.30

Reais

$0.65

Sao Paulo, Brazil

65

U.S. cents

$0.65

Havana, Cuba

5

French francs

$0.70

Paris, France (benchmark for French bread?)

2

Eastern Caribbean dollars

$0.74

Castries, St. Lucia

0.7 New Manat $0.82 Baku, Azerbaijan

1.19

U.S. dollars

$1.19

Denver, Colorado

190 Forint $1.20 Budapest, Hungary

1.95

New Zealand dollars

$1.20

Wellington, New Zealand

1.5

Euro

$1.35

Dublin, Ireland

2

Australian dollars

$1.50

Canberra, Australia

231

Yen

$2.12

Tokyo, Japan

 

Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

Gilgit, Kashmir (Pakistan)

Tortilla Factory, Monterrey, Mexico

Bread in the Western Sahara

Kashgar, Xinjiang (China)

Urumuqi, Xinjiang (China)