Big Mac Index Data Download
Free open dataset of Big Mac prices and exchange rates across 56+ countries, 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, retrieved 2026-05-20, https://bigmacindex.app/data
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.
Programmatic access
A REST API for live programmatic access is in development. Join the API waitlist to get notified when it ships.
