For the price in local currency, the ISO 4217 currency names and code elements was used.

Purpose of this data collection is to monitor the price of the most sold brand of beer, the most sold brand of the most sold type of spirits and the price of an internationally comparable brand of sugar-sweetened carbonated beverage. Monitoring prices of those products helps estimate the burden of applicable indirect taxes to those products. This also helps monitor change in affordability of those products if this data is collected regularly over time.

Prices were collected for 330 ml of a bottle or can of the most sold brand of beer, 750 ml of a bottle of the most sold brand of the most sold type of beer and 330 ml of a bottle or can of an internationally comparable brand of sugar-sweetened carbonated beverage.

Primary collection of price data in this report involved surveying two types of retail outlets from the capital city of each country, defined as follows:

- Drink specialist: retail outlets specializing in the sale of mainly alcoholic beverages (e.g., liquor stores);

Or, Independent small grocery stores: retail outlets selling a wide range of predominantly grocery products. These outlets are usually not chained and if chained will have fewer than ten retail outlets (e.g., family-owned);

- Supermarkets/hypermarkets: chained or independent retail outlets with a selling space of over 2,500 square meters and a primary focus on selling foods/beverages and other groceries. Hypermarkets also sell a range of non-grocery merchandise.

Prices were collected in the local currency in each country.

The prices were also converted in international dollars at purchasing power parity (PPP) using the International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s World Economic Outlook implied PPP conversion rates for 2022.

Prices were also converted in US$ at official exchange rate using IMF’s exchange rate conversion of national currency per US$, end of period data for July 2022.

Price of the most sold brand of beer in local currency

Price of the most sold brand of beer in international dollars

Price of the most sold brand of beer in US$ at official exchange rate

Price of the most sold brand of the most sold type of spirits in local currency

Price of the most sold brand of the most sold type of spirits in international dollars

Price of the most sold brand of the most sold type of spirits in US$ at official exchange rate

Price of the internationally comparable brand of sugar-sweetened carbonated beverage in local currency

Price of internationally comparable brand of sugar-sweetened carbonated beverage in international dollars

Price of internationally comparable brand of sugar-sweetened carbonated beverage in US$ at official exchange rate

Prices provided in different volume sizes were all standardized to 330 ml for the most sold brand of beer, 750 ml for the most sold brand of the most sold type of spirits and 330 ml for the internationally comparable brand of sugar-sweetened carbonated beverage.

Prices in local currency were divided by the IMF’s World Economic Outlook implied PPP conversion rates for 2022 for the conversion in international dollars at purchasing power parity (PPP).

Prices in local currency were also divided by the IMF’s exchange rate conversion of national currency per US$ end of period data for July 2022 for the conversion in US$ at official exchange rates.

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In most countries, national level brand-specific price statistics were not available, thus the retail price data were collected from one drink specialist or independent small grocery store usually in the capital city of the country (where survey respondents were mostly located), therefore potentially not nationally representative. Retail prices from other store types were not taken into account in this analysis, even though such store types may represent a significant market share in some countries.