{"id":83112,"date":"2026-01-04T09:04:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T09:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=83112"},"modified":"2026-01-04T09:04:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T09:04:45","slug":"top-10-african-countries-with-the-highest-cost-of-living-at-the-start-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/04\/top-10-african-countries-with-the-highest-cost-of-living-at-the-start-of-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 African countries with the highest cost of living at the start of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ocdn.eu\/pulscms-transforms\/1\/P8hktkqTURBXy9mYTAyMzhjN2ExOTZkNTRkNWI3YzhkYmU4NzIzNjExMy5qcGVnkpUDAwDNA_rNAj2TBc0DFs0Brg\" alt=\"Top 10 African countries with the highest cost of living at the start of 2026\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Living costs across Africa vary widely, with Seychelles, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Senegal ranking among the continent\u2019s most expensive countries. <a href=\"https:\/\/africa.businessinsider.com\/local\/lifestyle\/top-10-african-countries-with-the-highest-cost-of-living-at-the-start-of-2026\/lp06r1y\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Living costs across Africa vary widely, with Seychelles, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Senegal ranking among the continent\u2019s most expensive&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83112","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cost-of-living-crisis"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/seychelles.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83113,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83112\/revisions\/83113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}