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Visualising: Salt Price Around the World

  • Jul 19
  • 1 min read

The price of one of the world's most basic cooking ingredients, Salt varies between $0.19 to $3.6/kg across countries.


It is undeniably one of the most basic ingredients for cooking around the world but prices vary significantly. View this visual on Instagram.


Title written as “Cost of Salt”. An exclusive researched graph showing the price of salt across different countries in the world with the world map in the background. Countries are listed from highest to lowest to visually show the difference along with country flag, name and price. Listed countries include - USA, China, India, Russia, Japan, Swiss, Germany, UK, Canada, Brazil, Australia, Sri Lanka, Ghana, Uruguay and Austria.

Salt prices vary significantly across the globe, with the lowest price at $0.19 in Russia and the highest prices of $3.62 in Ghana.


Based on 80 countries, the world’s average price for 1kg salt is $1.03. This makes countries like Ghana, Uruguay and USA almost 3 times costlier than the world average.


Here are the top 5 most expensive countries:


  1. Ghana: $3.62

  2. Uruguay: $3.20

  3. USA: $3.00

  4. Japan: $2.55

  5. Switzerland: $2.25


At the same time, some countries are way below the world average. The top 5 lowest salt price countries around the world are:


  1. Russia: $0.19

  2. Kazakhstan: 0.20

  3. Pakistan: $0.22

  4. Egypt: $0.27

  5. India: $0.32



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