Laos Development Daily, a Lao media outlet, lists the main expenditures of ordinary Lao people in cities.
| Laos living in the city spend an average of each person per month | ||
| Basic average spending | ||
| Car fuel costs 20-35km | 3.5-50,000 kip/day | 90-1.3 million kip/month |
| Motorbike fuel costs 20-35km | 1.5-1.8 million kip/day | 25-45 million kip/month |
| Internet access fees | 10,000 kip/3 days | 100,000 kip/month |
| Eat and use | 6 kip/day | 180,000 kip/month |
| Electricity | 750 kip/kWh | 50,000 kip/month |
| Rent fees | 600,000 kip/room | 200,000-600,000 kip/month |
| Meals | 12,000 kip/meal | 108,000 kip/month |
| Other expenditures | ||
| Alcohol charges | 120,000 kip/week | 400,000-500,000 kip/month |
| Smoking fee | 7 kip/box/day | 210,000 kip/month |
| coffee | 5 thousand KP/day | 150,000 kip/month |
| snacks | 5 thousand KP/day | 150,000 kip/month |
| drink | 5 thousand KP/day | 150,000 kip/month |
Among them, the basic expenditure of fuel (car or motorcycle), housing accounted for the vast majority of the majority, while other expenditures alone beer alone exceeded the monthly housing cost.
The data has also triggered a lot of public discussion:
In addition, there are weekly lottery tickets
The cost of living is too high, for a total of 2800,000 kip/person/month. Now the salary of employees is about 1600,000-1800,000 kip/month. Debt million kip, wife and son eat what? Couldn't have begged for more food.
Civil servants are paid only 1.500.000-1.700.000 kip per month
12000 kip/meal can only eat noodles
Now the car pays 2.4 million per month for work, and the motorcycle costs 400,000 a month
Enough money on electricity! Rent is not possible except at school! A house with a bathroom costs 750,000-1000,000 kip/month
There is no milk, tuition, medical expenses, car repairs. Too much not mentioned...
I want to laugh and survive at least 3-4 million a month
I want to start learning Chinese to earn rmb
I counted my own beginnings, at least 2.84 million old coins a month, and my mood was suddenly not good, and I didn't know when I would be able to support myself
Lao employees are not well paid, but they have mansions, big cars...
All in all, the money earned is not enough to spend!
This has to mention the opening of the country!
In response to actual demand and economic recovery, the Laos Covid-19 Prevention and Control Committee collected public opinion on april 29 on the opening of the country, and many netizens commented on the reconsideration message: "No opinion! Hurry up! I'm starving to death."
Hurry up and switch, no need to add anything
Open up, don't open up the cost of living is very expensive, because we import goods from foreign countries, Laos to produce a little bit, and now the people are starving to death
Agree to open! Boost the economy!
Now open to make money, the goods in the warehouse are rotten
Fully agree with the above document
The founding of the country increased tourists