Colombo second most expensive place in the world to buy apples

Colombo has been listed as the second most expensive place to buy apples in the list of global capitals by Numbeo, the world’s largest cost of living database. The Spectator Index, a popular Twitter account and website focusing on latest trends in politics, economics, science, sports, security, strategy, international relations, human rights and culture, citing Numbeo, has said Sri Lanka has the world’s second-costliest apple prices.

According to Numbeo, the price of one kilo of apples in US dollars in New York was at 7.05 last weekend, while the price in Colombo of the same was at 7.04. Seoul has come third in the list with price of USD 6.91 per kilo of apples followed by San Francisco ($ 6.39), Chicago ($5.95), Miami ($ 5.90), Los Angeles ($5.46), Seattle ($5.35), Washington DC ($ 5.24), Tokyo ($5.13), Taipei ($4.63), Singapore ($4.22), Geneva ($4.12), Toronto ($3.93), Hong Kong ($3.87), Paris ($3.63), Riyadh ($2.10), Beijing ($ 2.04), Delhi ($ 2.01), Amsterdam ($ 1.96), Doha ($1.94), Athens ($1.90), Cairo ($1.78), Buenos Aires ($ 1.53), Johannesburg ($1.45), Moscow ($ 1.29), Lagos ($1.28), Istanbul

($1.12),Islamabad ($1.11) and Lahore ($ 1.05).

Numbeo is a crowd-sourced global database of quality of life data: housing indicators, perceived crime rates, healthcare quality, transport quality, and other statistics.