The most expensive and cheapest countries on Earth for petrol (2024)

Fill up your car this month, because in a few weeks, Australia will go from cheaper than average to pricier than average - compared to the rest of the world.

A litre of Octane 95 will cost you $1.62 a litre in Australia, cheaper than the global average of $1.96, according to price aggregator globalpetrolprices.com.

But there's other countries where you could fill up your car with only a few silver coins.

But here are the countries where petrol is most expensive and the cheapest.

Greece is the tenth most expensive place in the world to fill up your car.

Petrol there is $2.97 a litre for Octane 95.

Denmark is the ninth most expensive country on Earth for petrol, with a litre of Octane 95 costing $3.03 a litre.

It's little wonder why the country is known as a nation of cyclists.

Finland is the eighth most expensive country for petrol.

Filling up in Helsinki will set you back $3.05 a litre.

If you picture yourself in Barbados, you probably don't imagine yourself filling up at a petrol station.

Which is just as well, because the Caribbean island is the seventh most expensive place for petrol.

A litre costs $3.15.

Switzerland is one of the richest countries on Earth, but that doesn't make the pricey petrol a welcome expense.

The sixth most expensive place in the world to fill up, a litre will set you back $3.20.

Norway is one of the largest oil producers in the world, but that doesn't mean they are getting cheaper prices at the bowser.

At $3.25 a litre, Norway is the ninth most expensive country to fill up.

Not that it bothers many Norwegians.

The country has more electric cars per capita than anywhere else in the world.

The Central African Republic is the fourth most expensive place to fill up your car.

This is largely due to the civil war going on in the country, which makes imports a risky, and therefore expensive, proposition.

Iceland may be one of the most stunning and interesting countries on Earth, but it's also one of the priciest.

Petrol, like a lot of other stuff in Iceland, needs to be imported, and its isolated position in the chilly North Atlantic doesn't make things cheaper.

A litre of petrol there is $3.32 a litre.

Zimbabwe's petrol prices are the second most expensive in the world.

The southern Africa country has to import all of its petrol, and exchange rates make for brutal prices at the bowser.

For a litre, it'll cost you $3.65.

Hong Kong is the most expensive place on Earth to fill up your car.

Prices there are $4.32 a litre, substantially more than double the international average.

But it should be noted that most people in Hong Kong don't own cars, and those that do face heavy taxes and notoriously bad traffic.

But where are the cheapest places on Earth to fill up? Keep clicking to find out.

Malaysia is the tenth cheapest place in the world to fill up your car.

A litre of petrol in Kuala Lumpur will set you back 67 cents.

Nigeria is the ninth cheapest place in the world to buy petrol, largely on the back of its own domestic production.

The African nation is one of the biggest oil exporters in the world, though most of the impoverished nation has seen little benefit from the industry.

Petrol there is 65c a litre.

Turkmenistan is the seventh cheapest place in the world to buy petrol.

Sixty cents will buy you a litre of petrol in the Central Asian nation, known for its bombastic dictator and garish public monuments.

Angola is the sixth cheapest place on Earth to fill up.

Petrol there is just 54c a litre.

The southern African nation now exports more oil to China than any other country.

Kuwait is the fifth cheapest place in the world to buy petrol.

Though the 49c a litre is understandably cheap - the tiny nation has an estimated 10 per cent of global oil reserves beneath its surface.

Algeria is the fourth cheapest country to buy petrol, at 47c a litre.

Oil production accounts for nearly all of the North African nation's export economy.

Algeria also holds the unenviable distinction of being the last country to phase out leaded petrol.

Up until July last year, Algerian petrol still contained lead.

Filling up in Iran will set you back eight cents a litre, making it the third cheapest petrol in the world.

That price, though, is limited by the government subsidy. Every Iranian adult gets 15 litres a month at that price. Anything more than that costs 60c a litre.

People who don't own a car can sell their petrol subsidy coupon.

A litre of petrol will set you back five cents in Libya.

The country has been plagued with violence from a civil war that has lasted for years.

Oil accounts for 95 per cent of exports from Libya.

Venezuela is the cheapest country on Earth to fill up your car.

There a litre of petrol is just three cents.

Though there's good reason for this.

Venezuela is an oil-rich socialist country with heavy sanctions placed on it by Western countries.

Consequently, they are working with a restricted global market with which to sell their oil.

And with 90 per cent of the nation in poverty and hyperinflation making their currency largely worthless, filling up a car for cheap isn't much consolation.