Big Mac Index Data Download
Free open dataset of Big Mac prices and exchange rates across 54 countries and aggregates, covering 2000–2026. CSV and JSON formats. License: CC-BY 4.0.
Downloads
- Full history CSV
Time series of Big Mac local + USD prices, exchange rates, and PPP indices for all countries the Economist tracked since 2000.
- Latest snapshot JSON
Most recent snapshot, structured for quick programmatic consumption.
- Full history JSON
Same coverage as the CSV but in JSON, for charts and dashboards.
- Country metadata JSON
Stable country metadata (slugs, ISO codes, regions, currency symbols) for joining with the price data.
CSV columns
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
date | date | Snapshot date (semi-annual Economist release) |
iso_a3 | string | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code |
currency_code | string | ISO 4217 currency code |
name | string | Country or aggregate name |
local_price | number | Big Mac price in local currency |
dollar_ex | number | USD exchange rate (local per 1 USD) |
dollar_price | number | Big Mac price in USD |
USD_raw EUR_raw GBP_raw JPY_raw CNY_raw | number | Big Mac Index raw value vs each base currency |
GDP_bigmac | number | GDP-adjusted implied exchange rate |
adj_price | number | GDP-adjusted Big Mac price |
USD_adjusted EUR_adjusted … | number | GDP-adjusted Big Mac Index vs each base |
License & attribution
Free under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0). Use for personal, academic, or commercial purposes. If you publish work using this data, attribution required:
BigMacIndex.app, Big Mac Index Dataset (July 2026), retrieved 2026-08-10, https://bigmacindex.app/data/
Citing this dataset
Pick whichever format your publication uses. Both name the July 2026 edition — the index is published twice a year, so a citation without the edition can't be reproduced.
Robert. W (2026). Big Mac Index Dataset (July 2026) [Data set]. BigMacIndex.app. https://bigmacindex.app/data/
@dataset{bigmacindex_2026,
author = {Robert. W},
title = {Big Mac Index Dataset},
version = {July 2026},
year = {2026},
publisher = {BigMacIndex.app},
url = {https://bigmacindex.app/data/},
note = {Big Mac prices and exchange rates, 54 markets, 2000--2026. Data last updated 2026-08-10. CC-BY 4.0.}
} Underlying Big Mac prices sourced from The Economist Big Mac Index (MIT-licensed via TheEconomist/big-mac-data) and editorial research for countries the Economist doesn't cover. Exchange rates from Tokyo FX Market.
How the data is sourced
For full methodology — source tier definitions, confidence scoring, and the difference between economist, editorial, and community data — see the methodology page.
Important caveat: our prices are in-store recommended (Empfehlung in Germany, etc.), not delivery-platform prices. Delivery apps (Uber Eats, Glovo, etc.) typically inflate prices by 15–30% in markup. If you compare our numbers against a competitor site and ours are lower, that's why.
What these files do not contain: the 54 rows above are The Economist's published series. This site has 76 country pages, because it also breaks 5 euro-area countries out of the EUZ aggregate using our own editorial research, and documents 17 markets with no McDonald's at all. Neither of those layers is in the download files — they live on the country pages only. If you are deciding whether to pull our file or The Economist's, the comparison is written out job by job.
Programmatic access
The same files are served with open CORS headers, so you can fetch() them straight from a browser or curl them in a script — no API key, no signup. Field-by-field docs, curl and fetch() examples, and an honest list of what this setup cannot do are on the API page.
