Cairo Comes among Cheapest Cities in World in 2021

Cairo Comes among Cheapest Cities in The World in 2021

Cairo is ranked among the cheapest cities around the world for foreigners to live in 2021 according to a survey made by Mercer Human Resources.

Cairo ranked 137th among 209 cities this year as it retreated eleven places compared to the previous year.

The rating of a city is based on the cost of more than 200 goods and services in every city that was classified.

The spectrum of rating includes housing, transport, food, clothing, house goods, and entertainment.

Mercer gathers data and sorts it in an annual report to help multinational businesses to calculate the wages of expatriate employees.

Cairo came in fifth place as the cheapest city in the Middle East region registered on the Mercer scale.

Cairo came over Tunis, the capital city of Tunisia, Alger, capital of Algeria, Istanbul, Turkey, and Rabat, the capital city of the Kingdom of Morocco.

On the other hand, the report of Mercer shows that the highest three cities in cost of living are Ashgabat, the capital city of Turkmenistan in Central Asia, Hong Kong, China, and Beirut, the capital of Lebanon.

The Lebanese capital ranks first in the cost of living which leaped 42 places on the Mercer scale due to the economic crisis and collapse of the national currency at the present time.

The cities of Riyadh and Dubai came in the 29th and 42nd respectively.

However, the cheapest three cities in the Middle East and Africa are Lusaka ( Zambia) Tunis (Tunisia), and Windhoek ( Namibia).

The three cities came in 208th, 206th, and 204th place in a row.