{"id":61747,"date":"2020-02-21T16:28:31","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T11:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=61747"},"modified":"2020-02-24T17:52:37","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T12:52:37","slug":"pakistan-ranked-the-most-affordable-country-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-ranked-the-most-affordable-country-in-the-world.html","title":{"rendered":"International magazine ranks Pakistan &#8216;the most affordable country in the world&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lahore: The CEOWorld Magazine, one of the leading international business publications, recently &nbsp;ranked Pakistan as the most affordable place to live in the world; out of a survey of 132 countries in total \u2014 according to a news source. Reportedly, the assessment was based on five key matrices i.e. purchasing power, cost of living, eating out, groceries and rent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: F<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/forbes-ranks-pakistan-among-10-best-under-the-radar-trips-for-2020.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"orbes ranks Pakistan among \u201910 Best Under-the-Radar Trips for 2020\u2032 listing (opens in a new tab)\">orbes ranks Pakistan among \u201910 Best Under-the-Radar Trips for 2020\u2032 listing<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the magazine\u2019s report, war-struck countries such as Syria and Afghanistan are more expensive to live in than Pakistan. On the other hand, the world\u2019s most expensive country, as per the magazine\u2019s findings, is Switzerland. Among the top 20 most expensive countries, nine are from Europe and five are from Asia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/discovery-of-oil-gas-reserves-pakistan-ranked-among-top-5.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Discovery of oil, gas reserves, Pakistan ranked among top 5 (opens in a new tab)\">Discovery of oil, gas reserves, Pakistan ranked among top 5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s score for cost of living was determined to be 21.98, while the country scored 4.59 points on the rent index. The index points are compared with the New York City index set as a benchmark with a score of 100. Pakistan scored 19.08 and 30.57 points respectively on the groceries and purchasing power indexes.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-ranked-best-holiday-destination-international-travel-magazine.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Pakistan ranked \u2018best holiday destination\u2019 by international travel magazine (opens in a new tab)\">Pakistan ranked \u2018best holiday destination\u2019 by international travel magazine<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CEOWorld Magazine ranked Norway, Iceland, Japan and\nDenmark as the second, third, fourth and fifth most expensive cities to live in\nthe world right now. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The CEOWorld Magazine, one of the leading international business publications, recently &nbsp;ranked Pakistan as the most affordable place to live in the world; out of a survey of 132 countries in total \u2014 according to a news source. Reportedly, the assessment was based on five key matrices i.e. purchasing power, cost of living, eating out, groceries and rent. Read: Forbes ranks Pakistan among \u201910 Best Under-the-Radar Trips for 2020\u2032 listing As per the magazine\u2019s report, war-struck countries such as Syria and Afghanistan are more expensive to live in than Pakistan. On the other hand, the world\u2019s most expensive country, as per the magazine\u2019s findings, is Switzerland. Among the top 20 most expensive countries, nine are from Europe and five are from Asia. Read: Discovery of oil, gas reserves, Pakistan ranked among top 5 Pakistan\u2019s score for cost of living was determined to be 21.98, while the country scored 4.59 points on the rent index. The index points are compared with the New York City index set as a benchmark with a score of 100. Pakistan scored 19.08 and 30.57 points respectively on the groceries and purchasing power indexes.&nbsp; Read: Pakistan ranked \u2018best holiday destination\u2019 by international travel magazine The&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":61753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15016],"tags":[20369],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-61747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-developments","8":"tag-pakistan-the-most-affordable-country","9":"cat-15016-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pakistan ranked the most affordable country in the world - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lahore: The CEOWorld Magazine, one of the leading international business publications, recently ranked Pakistan as the most affordable\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-ranked-the-most-affordable-country-in-the-world.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pakistan ranked the most affordable country in the world - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lahore: The CEOWorld Magazine, one of the leading international business publications, recently ranked Pakistan as the most affordable\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-ranked-the-most-affordable-country-in-the-world.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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