(CNN) — It looks like each month when family payments come due, we grumble about how the price of residing has gone up once more.
In different phrases — no, it isn’t simply you.
“The conflict in Ukraine, Western sanctions on Russia and China’s zero-Covid insurance policies have triggered supply-chain issues that, mixed with rising rates of interest and exchange-rate shifts, have resulted in a cost-of-living disaster the world over,” Upasana Dutt, head of worldwide price of residing at EIU, mentioned in a media assertion.
She added: “We are able to clearly see the influence on this 12 months’s index, with the common value rise throughout the 172 cities in our survey being the strongest we have seen within the 20 years for which we’ve got digital information. The rise in petrol costs in cities was notably robust (because it was final 12 months), however meals, utilities and family items are all getting costlier for city-dwellers.”
So, in an costly 12 months, what are the most costly cities to stay in?
Copenhagen fell from eighth to tenth place in 2022.
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Europe in transition
The EIU, which tracks on a regular basis bills in 172 cities around the globe, relies in London. The British capital fell considerably down the listing this 12 months, touchdown in twenty seventh place.
There have been 4 European cities within the high 10 — Zurich (sixth place) was the very best, with Paris, Copenhagen and fellow Swiss metropolis Geneva rounding out the remainder.
Essentially the most vital reason behind value upticks in western Europe was rising gasoline costs, the results of the continuing Russian conflict in Ukraine and the area looking for alternate sources of gasoline. The price of one liter of gasoline has gone up a whopping 22% in comparison with this era final 12 months.
Unsurprisingly, Russian cities Moscow and St. Petersburg each noticed vital hikes in price of residing bills, whereas Ukraine capital Kyiv was not analyzed this 12 months.
Along with gasoline prices, one issue cited by the EIU was the uneven worth of the Euro, which is utilized by some however not all the European cities on this 12 months’s listing — the UK is on the pound, and Switzerland has the franc.
Three different cities in Europe — Stockholm, Lyon and Luxembourg — additionally declined on the listing.
Two cities in Switzerland made the listing, one in every of which was Geneva.
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A primary-ever winner
Though it looks like New York Metropolis ought to have topped the listing by now, that is the primary time the largest metropolis within the US has landed in first place — albeit in a tie with frequent winner Singapore.
Two different American metropolises additionally made the highest 10 — Los Angeles in a tie for fourth place with Hong Kong and San Francisco in eighth.
In complete, 22 of the 172 cities the EIU tracks yearly are within the US, together with Portland, Boston, Chicago and Charlotte. Each single a kind of 22 skilled an increase in inflation this 12 months.
In the meantime, final 12 months’s winner, Tel Aviv, fell to 3rd place.
How the listing is made
To be able to create the listing, the EIU compares greater than 400 particular person costs throughout greater than 200 services in 172 cities. They survey a spread of companies, each excessive and low finish, to get a way of how a lot costs have fluctuated over the previous 12 months.
Its listing, revealed in June, awarded Hong Kong the title of most costly metropolis for the third 12 months straight and New York in second. Nevertheless, the ECA’s listing leans closely towards huge cities in Asia, as Seoul, Shanghai and different East Asian city facilities all landed within the high 10.
The EIU listing is benchmarked towards costs in New York Metropolis, therefore cities with currencies which can be stronger towards the US greenback are more likely to seem larger within the rankings.
The world’s 10 most costly cities to stay in 2022
1. New York and Singapore (tie)
3. Tel Aviv, Israel
4. Hong Kong and Los Angeles (tie)
6. Zurich, Switzerland
7. Geneva, Switzerland
8. San Francisco, California
9. Paris, France
10. Copenhagen, Denmark
