At The Pump Around the World

The price of gas varies around the world, due to the vagaries of Inter-bank exchange rates but mostly because of taxes and subsidies. With the help of money.cnn.com and Associates for International Research, we present the prices around the world in US gallons ( = 3.7854118 liters) compared to the 'purchasing power' in each country.

COUNTRY	Petrol Price US$/US gallon	GDP per capita^* in US$
Venezuela/Caracas^**	0.12	6,186
Nigeria/Lagos^**	0.38	1,188
Kuwait^**	0.78	16,301
Saudi Arabia/Riyadh^**	0.91	15,229
Russia^**	1.50	11,041
Haiti/Port-of-Spain	1.61	1,783
China/Beijing	2.05	7,204
South Africa/J'brg	3.39	20,590
US/New York	3.19 to 3.50	41,399
Australia/Sydney	3.42	30,897
Jamaica	3.65	4,293
Ghana	3.70	2,643
Barbados	3.95	17,610
Brazil/Sao Paulo	4.60	8,584
Italy/Rome	5.53	21,560
France, Paris	5.54	29,316
Belgium/Brussles	6.16	31,244
UK/London^**	6.28	30,470
Germany	6.40	30,579
Netherlands	6.48	30,862
Turkey	6.90	7,950
Norway/Oslo^**	6.90	42,364