This is now the world’s most expensive city to live in, study says. (via CNBCMakeIt)
A cityscape of Tel Aviv, with the first skyscraper, The Meir Shalom tower, in front, and newer buildings such as the Azrieli towers and Moshe Aviv tower in the back.Tel Aviv, Israel, is now the most expensive city in the world to live in, according to a biannual report by the Economist Intelligence Unit.
The Israeli city topped the EIU's December 2021 worldwide cost of living index for the first time ever, climbing up from fifth placeThe EIU said that Tel Aviv rose up the rankings mainly because the Israeli currency, the shekel, had soared, "buoyed against the dollar by Israel's successful Covid-19 vaccine rollout."Our World in Data
, 62% of Israel's population were fully-vaccinated as of Monday. In early November, the Israeli shekel was up 4% against the U.S. dollar year-to-date, according to Reuters, but has since trimmed those gains. Around a tenth of goods rose in cost in Tel Aviv, in the EIU's latest research, which looked at the prices of over 200 products and services in 173 cities.
More broadly, the EIU said that the inflation rate of the prices it tracked had risen by 3.5% year-on-year in local currency terms to September 2021, up from just 1.9% in 2020. It said this represented the fastest pace of inflation in its index over the past five years.
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