SatsAtlas Report · updated 2026-09-09
The Sats Cost of Living Index.
Every country's everyday cost of living, priced in Bitcoin satoshis and ranked. One satoshi is the same unit everywhere, so this strips out local-currency inflation and exchange-rate noise and shows where your Bitcoin actually goes furthest. 101 countries; the median sits at 123,580 sats.
Cheapest
1,369
sats · Algeria
Most expensive
585,100
sats · Singapore
Spread
427.4×
priciest ÷ cheapest
Median
123,580
sats · basket
What everyday things cost in sats, globally
🍺 Beer (Bar)
5,429 sats avg
across 102 countries
☕ Coffee
4,415 sats avg
across 110 countries
⛽ Gasoline
1,820 sats avg
across 55 countries
⚡ Electricity
232 sats avg
across 56 countries
🏠 Rent (1BR)
1,102,086 sats avg
across 70 countries
🌐 Internet
45,230 sats avg
across 73 countries
The ranking · cheapest first
101 countriesMethod & caveats
Each country's index is the average sats cost across a six-item everyday basket — a beer at a bar, a coffee, a litre of gasoline, a kWh of electricity, one-bedroom rent and monthly internet. Local prices are collected in USD, then converted to satoshis at the live BTC/USD rate, so the same unit is used everywhere. A country needs at least two basket items priced to appear. Because the index is denominated in sats, every figure moves as the Bitcoin price moves — it measures cost in Bitcoin, not in fiat. The same methodology powers our cost-of-living pages, so this report never contradicts them.
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Free to use with attribution (CC BY 4.0). Suggested citation: “SatsAtlas, The Sats Cost of Living Index (2026-09-09), https://satsatlas.com/reports/sats-cost-of-living-index.” Media & researchers welcome — link back and the numbers stay live.
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