![]() As a Big Mac is a completely standardized product across the world, the argument goes that it should have the same relative cost in every country. ![]() dollars using the exchange rate at that point in time. Twice a year the Economist converts the average national price of a Big Mac into U.S. ![]() It does this by measuring each currency against a common standard – the Big Mac hamburger sold by McDonald’s restaurants all over the world. The Big Mac index, published The Economist, is a novel way of measuring whether the market exchange rates for different countries’ currencies are overvalued or undervalued. Concurrently the cost of a Big Mac was 5.81 dollars in the U.S., and 4.95 U.S. dollars, Switzerland has the most expensive Big Macs in the world, according to the January 2022 Big Mac index.
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