全球生活成本最高的20个城市 [美国媒体]

The 20 cities with the highest cost of living

生活成本最高的20个城市

Yahoo Finance 雅虎财经        Nathan Giannini   January 14, 2017



The company published this map showing the cost of living in nearly 500 cities around the world. Red dots indicate expensive cities and green less expensive.

这张显示全球500座城市生活成本的地图，红点表示昂贵，绿色表示便宜。

The city with the highest relative cost of living in the world is Hamilton, the capital of Bermuda.

世界上生活成本最高的城市，是百慕大的首都汉密尔顿。

That’s according to rankings published by data company Numbeo. The company continuously updates its data and just published its Cost of Living Index Rate for 2017. The list is calculated relative to New York City, which has an index of 100. If a city has a cost of living index of 130, it is 30 percent more expensive than New York; if a city has an index of 70, it is 30 percent less expensive.

这来自数据公司Numbeo（G19注：这是一家由Google的前工程师Mladen Adamovic创办的关于价格比较的众包网站）发布的排名。该公司不断更新数据，刚刚发布了2017年生活成本指数。这个表单的指数以纽约市为基础，将其数值设定为100。如果一个城市的指数是130，说明该城市生活成本比纽约高30%；如果一个城市的指数式70，说明其比纽约低30%。

Hamilton has a rating of 141.59, nearly 10 points higher than the second-most expensive city on the list, Geneva, Switzerland.

汉密尔顿的指数是141.59，比排名第二的瑞士日内瓦高了将近10点。

Here’s the top 20:

这里是前20名：

Hamilton, Bermuda（百慕大，汉密尔顿）:           141.59
Geneva, Switzerland（瑞士，日内瓦）:             131.69
Basel, Switzerland（瑞士，巴塞尔）:              129.61
Zurich, Switzerland（瑞士，苏黎世）:             129.03
Venice, Italy（威尼斯，意大利）:                 119.03
Zug, Switzerland（瑞士，楚格）:                  118.94
Lausanne, Switzerland（瑞士，洛桑）:             116.72
Bern, Switzerland（瑞士，伯尔尼）:               115.97
Stavanger, Norway（挪威，斯塔万格）:             111.85
Lugano, Switzerland（瑞士，卢加诺）:             110.85
Trondheim, Norway（挪威，特隆赫姆）:             110.77
Reykjavik, Iceland（冰岛，雷克雅末克）:          109.11
Oslo, Norway（挪威，奥斯陆）:                    106.25
Bergen, Norway（挪威，卑尔根）:                  103.74
Nassau, Bahamas（巴哈马，拿骚）:                 102.98
New York, NY, United States（美国，纽约）:       100.00
Honolulu, HI, United States（美国，火奴鲁鲁）:    99.37
San Francisco, CA, United States（美国，旧金山）: 98.97
Anchorage, AK, United States（美国，安克雷奇）:   98.48
Washington, DC, United States（美国，华盛顿）:    95.24

As a relatively small island nation of fewer than 65,000 people, a large percentage of Bermuda’s goods are imported. According to The World Bank, the country has the fourth-highest tariff rate in the world, significantly increasing the cost of groceries, vehicles, gas, electronics and other household goods.

作为一个人口不到6万5千人的小岛国，百慕大的大部分商品都是进口的。根据世界银行提供的数据，这个国家是世界上税率第四高的国家，这显着的提高了食品、汽车、汽油、电器和家庭用品的价格。

Perhaps the biggest reason for Hamilton’s astronomical cost of living is accommodation: In 2015 the average price of a single-family home was $1.2 million, according to Coldwell Banker Bermuda Realty.

也许汉密尔顿的高物价在很大程度上来自于其房价：百慕大房产经纪公司Coldwell Banker的数据显示2015年独立住宅均价为120万美元。



上图为在百慕大首都汉密尔顿举办的美洲杯帆船系列赛。

You’ll notice that seven of the top 10 most expensive cities are in Switzerland. Luckily for Swiss workers, the country has the third-highest average annual wage in the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) at $58,389, behind just Luxembourg and the United States.

你可能注意到前十个最昂贵的城市里有七个在瑞士。幸运的是，对于瑞士的工薪阶层来说，该国年均工资在世界经合组织排名第三——5.8389万美元（G19注：约为40.28万元人民币），仅排在卢森堡和美国之后。经合组织相关页面 http://stats.oecd.org//Index.aspx?QueryId=64115



图中为瑞士苏黎世的Sechselaeutenplatz广场。

New York City, the most expensive city in the U.S., checks in at 16th place, just above Honolulu and San Francisco.

纽约作为美国最昂贵的城市，排在第16位，刚刚高于火奴鲁鲁和旧金山。

For comparison, the least expensive city in the world is Thiruvananthapuram, India, with an index of just 19.83. Eight of the 10 least expensive cities are in India.

作为对比，世界上生活成本最便宜的城市是印度的特里凡得琅，其指数为19.83。最便宜的十个城市中有八个在印度。

Bottom 20

最后20名

445. Chandigarh, India（印度，昌迪加尔）:      25.93
446. Goa, India（印度，果阿）:                 25.88
447. Ahmedabad, India（印度，艾哈迈迪巴德）:   25.86
448. Surat, India（印度，苏拉特）:             25.85
449. Lucknow (Lakhnau), India（印度，勒克瑙）: 25.81
450. Jaipur, India（印度，斋浦尔）:            25.62
451. Vadodara, India（印度，巴罗达）:          25.53
452. Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine（乌克兰，第聂伯罗彼得罗夫斯克）: 25.29
453. Sumy, Ukraine（乌克兰，苏梅）:            24.75
454. Indore, India（印度，印多尔）:            24.38
455. Lviv, Ukraine（乌克兰，利沃夫）:          24.32
456. Hyderabad, India（印度，海德拉巴）:       24.05
457. Kochi, India（印度，科钦）:               23.58
458. Visakhapatnam, India（印度，维沙卡帕特南）: 23.54
459. Nagpur, India（印度，纳格普尔）:          23.47
460. Coimbatore, India（印度，哥印拜陀）:      23.36
461. Bhubaneswar, India（印度，布巴内斯瓦尔）: 23.25
462. Cairo, Egypt（埃及，开罗）:               22.29
463. Mangalore, India（印度，芒格洛尔）:       21.89
464. Thiruvananthapuram, India（印度，特里凡得琅）: 19.83