Which is the most expensive petrol in a 10 countries.
The top ten most expensive countries for a petrol revealed – and the Britain is not in it after the cost of the filling up here falls.
Petrol prices are always a hot topic of the conversation in a Britain and the cost of the filling up at the pump is a sore subject with a many feeling we pay over in the odds compared to the foreign counterparts.
However, in This is a Money’s third annual world’s most expensive petrol in a index – which looks at the cost of a liter of the unleaded worldwide – Britain has a actually fallen out of the top ten for the first time.
The list is a entirely made up of the countries in a Europe, with a just one outside of the EU itself, according to the research by a insurer Castle Cover.
Worldwide in a petrol: The top ten most expensive countries in the world for a unleaded
It comes as a Britain has seen a slight dip at the petrol pumps in a recent months, bringing in the price down to the 133.97 p a liter for a unleaded as of the today. In our last annual index, the price was at the 142 p a liter – almost 10 p dearer.
We also look at the average monthly disposable income, after a tax, of the workers in each of the countries mentioned and present in the proportion of the wages that is a spent on a filling up, as a way to the gauge how affordable fuel is in each country.
The figures are based on a driver covering a 12,000 miles and the car doing 48.22 miles per gallon, while in the disposable income after a tax figures are taken from a database website Number and government statistics.
TOP TEN LIST
1. NORWAY
Price of unleaded: 167 p
Disposable income after a tax: £2,707.06
Average monthly fuel in a bill: £200.84
Percentage of the wage spent on a fuel: 7.4%
2. TURKEY
Price of the unleaded: 166 p
Disposable income after a tax: £547.08
Average monthly fuel in a bill: £199.64
Percentage of the wage spent on a fuel: 36.5%
3. NETHERLANDS
Price of the unleaded: 153 p
Disposable income after a tax: £1,776.45
Average monthly fuel in a bill: £184
Percentage of the wage spent on a fuel: 10.6%
4. ITALY
Price of the unleaded: 148 p
Disposable income after a tax: £1,370.72
Average monthly fuel in a bill: £177.99
Percentage of the wage spent on a fuel: 13%
5. SWEDEN
Price of the unleaded: 144 p
Disposable income after a tax: £1,982.79
Average monthly fuel in a bill: £173.18
Percentage of the wage spent on a fuel: 8.7%
6. GREECE
Price of the unleaded: 144 p
Disposable income after a tax: £642.53
Average monthly fuel in a bill: £173.18
Percentage of the wage spent on a fuel: 27%
7. FRANCE
Price of the unleaded: 142 p
Disposable income after a tax: £1,735.55
Average monthly fuel in a bill: £170.78
Percentage of the wage spent on a fuel: 9.8%
8. PORTUGAL
Price of the unleaded: 142 p
Disposable income after a tax: £685.36
Average monthly fuel in a bill: £170.78
Percentage of the wage spent on a fuel: 24.9%
9. BELGIUM
Price of the unleaded: 141 p
Disposable income after a tax: £1,667.05
Average monthly fuel in a bill: £169.57
Percentage of the wage spent on a fuel: 10.2%
10. GERMANY
Price of the unleaded: 141 p
Disposable income after a tax: £1,818.65
Average monthly fuel in a bill: £169.57
Percentage of the wage spent on a fuel: 9.3%