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Cost of Living Survey 2004 (100 to 144)
Rank 2004	Rank 2003	City	Index 2004	Index 2003
101	79	Detroit, USA	68.8	71.5
102	96	Monterrey, Mexico	68.6	67.5
103	77	Kingston, Jamaica	68.2	71.6
104	97	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	67.7	67.3
105	92	Portland, USA	67.7	67.8
106	91	Panama City	67.5	67.9
107	93	Winston Salem, USA	66.9	67.7
108	98	Guatemala City, Guatemala	66.9	67
109	114	Mumbai, India	66.8	62.5
110	103	Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei	66.7	66
111	90	Lagos, Nigeria	66.7	68.3
112	88	Pittsburgh, USA	66.5	68.9
113	120	Montreal, Canada	66.4	59.5
114	116	Calgary, Canada	66	62.1
115	101	Tianjin, China	65.6	66.4
116	109	New Delhi, India	64.7	63.3
117	94	Dacca (Dhaka), Bangladesh	64	67.6
118	108	Lima, Peru	63.6	63.4
119	125	Bangkok, Thailand	63.5	58.3
120	119	Tunis, Tunisia	63.4	59.9
121	105	Nairobi, Kenya	63.3	63.6
122	111	Tehran, Iran	63.2	62.7
123	134	Santiago, Chile	62.9	50.5
124	127	Ottawa, Canada	62.6	57.2
125	129	Lusaka, Zambia	62.3	56.6
126	133	Johannesburg, South Africa	61.1	50.9
127	118	Colombo, Sri Lanka	60.4	60
128	136	Sao Paulo, Brazil	60.3	49.4
129	122	Bucharest, Romania	60.1	59
130	113	San Jose, Costa Rica	60	62.6
131	137	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	59.3	48.6
132	130	Karachi, Pakistan	56.3	56.5
133	132	Chennai, India	54.2	51.1
134	128	Caracas, Venezuela	54	56.9
135	140	Blantyre, Malawi	53	44.1
136	131	Quito, Ecuador	52.8	52
137	138	Bangalore, India	51.1	47.8
138	135	Manila, Philippines	48.8	49.5
139	142	Bogotá, Colombia	48.6	43.9
140	143	Harare, Zimbabwe	48.2	39.5
141	141	Buenos Aires, Argentina	47.7	44
142	122	Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic	47.3	59
143	139	Montevideo, Uruguay	47.2	46.5
144	144	Asuncion, Paraguay	42.7	36.5

Source: Mercer Human Resource Consulting