Cost-of-living rankings · Eurostat PLI 2024

Cheapest Countries for Transport

Transport price levels — fuel, fares and vehicle costs, EU-27 = 100.

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#1 Cheapest transport
Bulgaria (72)
Average index
98
Top–bottom spread
64
Countries ranked
30

The verdict

According to Eurostat, Bulgaria has the lowest transport index at 72 (EU-27 = 100), ahead of Romania at 79; the Top 5 cutoff is 82, with a 64-point spread to Iceland.

72
#1 Bulgaria
79
#2 Romania
82
Top 5 cutoff
64
Top–bottom spread

Every figure is rendered live from the same Eurostat 2024 ranking query as the table below, no AI summaries, no synthetic statistics.

Top 5 - Cheapest transport Horizontal bar chart of the top 5 items by value (index). Top 5 - Cheapest transport 1. Bulgaria 72 2. Romania 79 3. Poland 80 4. Hungary 81 5. Lithuania 82 Bar to make this Top 5 = 82 (EU-27 = 100). Full list of 30countries below.

Top 10 - Cheapest transport

Cheapest Countries for Transport (top 10)

1. 🇧🇬 Bulgaria722. 🇷🇴 Romania793. 🇵🇱 Poland804. 🇭🇺 Hungary815. 🇱🇹 Lithuania826. 🇲🇹 Malta837. 🇱🇻 Latvia838. 🇨🇿 Czechia839. 🇭🇷 Croatia8510. 🇪🇸 Spain87

Each value is the price level relative to the EU-27 average of 100. Below 100 is cheaper than the EU norm.

Full ranking, all 30 countries

What this shows: each bar's length is this country's transport index relative to the highest value in the table (136); hover or tap a bar for its share of the #1 leader and exact rank.

Rank Country Transport index
1 🇧🇬 Bulgaria
72
2 🇷🇴 Romania
79
3 🇵🇱 Poland
80
4 🇭🇺 Hungary
81
5 🇱🇹 Lithuania
82
6 🇲🇹 Malta
83
7 🇱🇻 Latvia
83
8 🇨🇿 Czechia
83
9 🇭🇷 Croatia
85
10 🇪🇸 Spain
87
11 🇸🇮 Slovenia
88
12 🇨🇾 Cyprus
88
13 🇸🇰 Slovakia
88
14 🇵🇹 Portugal
89
15 🇬🇷 Greece
90
16 🇪🇪 Estonia
96
17 🇮🇹 Italy
96
18 🇱🇺 Luxembourg
96
19 🇧🇪 Belgium
108
20 🇮🇪 Ireland
109
21 🇫🇷 France
109
22 🇦🇹 Austria
109
23 🇩🇪 Germany
110
24 🇸🇪 Sweden
111
25 🇫🇮 Finland
112
26 🇳🇱 Netherlands
113
27 🇳🇴 Norway
118
28 🇩🇰 Denmark
125
29 🇨🇭 Switzerland
127
30 🇮🇸 Iceland
136

Reading cheapest transport: Bulgaria leads

Comparative price levels, EU-27 = 100. Spread from Bulgaria (72) to Iceland (136) is 64 index points. Cross-check affordability on best-value .

Mid-table Estonia (96) is the typical reference: above it is cheaper than typical. Open any country profile for the full per-category breakdown.

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What to do with this ranking

Bulgaria and Iceland anchor the two ends of this cheapest transport table -- open either profile for the full per-category breakdown, or compare them side by side.

Rankings reflect national averages, not a personal budget -- a country's largest cities typically run above its national figure.

Source: Eurostat, comparative price levels (prc_ppp_ind) and median equivalised net income Price-level indices, EU-27 = 100, 2024.

Sources: Eurostat comparative price levels (prc_ppp_ind) · Eurostat median equivalised net income (ilc_di03) · 2024. Methodology

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