Cost of living · 101 countries · in sats
Where do your sats stretch the furthest?
The average cost of everyday life — rent, food, transport, utilities — priced in Bitcoin satoshis and ranked across 101 countries.
Countries tracked
101
with cost-of-living data
Most affordable
Algeria
1.4k sats avg
Most expensive
Singapore
585.6k sats avg
Cost of Living Rankings
101 countries ranked by COL index (avg. of key item prices in sats)
About the Cost of Living Index
The SatsAtlas Cost of Living Index measures everyday expenses across countries using Bitcoin satoshis as the unit of account. By pricing goods in sats, you can directly compare purchasing power without exchange-rate distortions.
The index is calculated from six key items: a beer at a bar, a cup of coffee, a liter of gasoline, a kilowatt-hour of electricity, monthly rent for a one-bedroom apartment, and monthly internet service. Lower values mean your sats go further.
The income side
What's your salary worth in Bitcoin, over time?
Watch an average paycheck priced in sats across the past decade — by country.
The report
The Sats Cost of Living Index
Every country ranked by cost of living in sats — cheapest to most expensive, with the global spread. Citable, CC BY 4.0.
The deflation story · basket priced in sats
The same basket, fewer sats over time
How the monthly cost-of-living basket has moved in Bitcoin satoshis across the past decade. As BTC's purchasing power rose, the same basket cost fewer sats — but it cost more sats during every BTC drawdown. The chart shows both.
Then vs now — basket in United States, from 2016-09-11 to today
Basket then
48.54M sats
Basket now
384.6k sats
Change in sats
-99.2%
BTC vs then
+12520%
Cheaper in sats today than at the start of this window — Bitcoin gained purchasing power faster than local prices rose.
Monthly basket cost in United States, priced in sats
Pure BTC (today's basket held constant)Basket = the 6 key cost-of-living items tracked for United States, averaged in sats — the same items behind the COL index above. @ $79,215/BTC today.