Where Data Tells the Story
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Filling up a car has never been cheap in Hong Kong. At $4.14 per litre, the territory charges more for petrol than anywhere else on earth. This is a product of its cramped geography, punishing import duties on gasoline and a government with little appetite to subsidise car ownership.
The rest of the top twenty are largely wealthy European nations where high fuel taxes are a deliberate policy choice. Key outliers however, are Malawi and Zimbabwe. Both of which are among the poorest countries on earth, and neither taxes fuel punitively by choice. They end up there because of weak currencies, thin refining capacity and expensive imports as a result of poor infrastructure.