{"id":671698,"date":"2026-05-29T07:45:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T07:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/671698\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T07:45:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T07:45:23","slug":"iceland-surpasses-switzerland-as-worlds-most-expensive-country-union-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/671698\/","title":{"rendered":"Iceland Surpasses Switzerland as World\u2019s Most Expensive Country, Union Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Iceland is again the world\u2019s most expensive country, surpassing Switzerland for the first time in years, calculations by a local trade union showed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The price level in the land of fire and ice now exceeds that of Switzerland by three percentage points, said Vilhjalmur Hilmarsson, an economist at the white-collar union Viska union who used data from the Eurostat statistics body and the Icelandic central bank. Icelandic prices last topped the Swiss in 2018, according to Eurostat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iceland is again the world\u2019s most expensive country, surpassing Switzerland for the first time in years, calculations by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,110,101,1076,939,299,2420,18868,2402,10815,13646,6808,2427],"class_list":["post-671698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-europe","tag-finance","tag-food","tag-government","tag-iceland","tag-inflation","tag-media","tag-switzerland","tag-tourism","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}