全球生活成本最高的20個城市大綱

The company published this map showing the Cost of living in nearly 500 cities around the world. Red dots indicate expensive cities and green less expensive.
這張顯示全球500座城市生活成本的地圖，紅點表示昂貴，綠色表示便宜。

The city with the highest relative cost of living in the world is Hamilton, the capital of Bermuda.
世界上生活成本最高的城市，是百慕大的首都漢密爾頓。

That’s according to rankings published by data company Numbeo. The company continuously updates its data and just published its Cost of Living Index Rate for 2017. The list is calculated relative to New York City, which has an index of 100. If a city has a cost of living index of 130, it is 30 percent more expensive than New York; if a city has an index of 70, it is 30 percent less expensive.
這來自數據公司Numbeo（G19注：這是一家由Google的前工程師Mladen Adamovic創辦的關於價格比較的衆包網站）發佈的排名。該公司不斷更新數據，剛剛發佈了2017年生活成本指數。這個表單的指數以紐約市爲基礎，將其數值設定爲100。如果一個城市的指數是130，說明該城市生活成本比紐約高30%；如果一個城市的指數式70，說明其比紐約低30%。

Hamilton has a rating of 141.59, nearly 10 points higher than the second-most expensive city on the list, Geneva, Switzerland.
漢密爾頓的指數是141.59，比排名第二的瑞士日內瓦高了將近10點。

As a relatively small island nation of fewer than 65,000 people, a large percentage of Bermuda’s goods are imported. According to The World Bank, the country has the fourth-highest tariff rate in the world, significantly increasing the cost of groceries, vehicles, gas, electronics and other household goods.
作爲一個人口不到6萬5千人的小島國，百慕大的大部分商品都是進口的。根據世界銀行提供的數據，這個國家是世界上稅率第四高的國家，這顯著的提高了食品、汽車、汽油、電器和家庭用品的價格。

Perhaps the biggest reason for Hamilton’s astronomical cost of living is accommodation: In 2015 the average price of a single-family home was $1.2 million, according to Coldwell Banker Bermuda Realty.
也許漢密爾頓的高物價在很大程度上來自於其房價：百慕大房產經紀公司Coldwell Banker的數據顯示2015年獨立住宅均價爲120萬美元。