City Mayors: Cost of living - The world's most expensive cities

City Mayors: Cost of living - The world's most expensive cities: "The world's 50 most expensive big cities
(The index is based on cost of living expressed in US dollars. Therefore, if the dollar weakens against the local currency of a city, the city becomes more expensive and moves up the index, even if prices expressed in local currency remain the same or even go down.)

Rank (2004)Rank (2003)CityCountry
11TokyoJapan
27LondonUK
32MoscowRussia
43OsakaJapan
54Hong KongChina
66GenevaSwitzerland
78SeoulSouth Korea
815CopenhagenDenmark
99ZurichSwitzerland
1012St. PetersburgRussia
115BeijingChina
1210New YorkUSA
1317MilanItaly
1421DublinIreland
1513OsloNorway
1611ShanghaiChina
1723ParisFrance
1842IstanbulTurkey
1934ViennaAustria
2067SydneyAustralia
2141RomeItaly
2248StockholmSweden
2336HelsinkiFinland
2435AbidjanIvory
2531DoualaCameroon
2652AmsterdamNetherlands
2722Los AngelesUSA
2858BerlinGermany
2914HanoiVietnam
3018ShenzhenChina
3129TaipeiTaiwan
3218GuangzhouChina
3340Tel AvivIsrael
3437BudapestHungary
3525ChicagoUSA
3616Ho Chi Minh CityVietnam
3725BeirutLebanon
3830San FranciscoUSA
3966Luxembourg CityLuxembourg
4063D�sseldorfGermany
4174GlasgowUK
4265FrankfurtGermany
4362MunichGermany
4456BratislavaSlovak
4538JakartaIndonesia
4632SingaporeSingapore
4756DakarSenegal
4827RigaLatvia
4949PragueCzech
5071AthensGreece"