Numbeo
| Web address | www.numbeo.com |
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Type of site
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Wiki for product prices to provide cost of living and travel information |
| Registration | Optional |
| Available in | English |
| Launched | April 2009 |
Numbeo is a crowd-sourced global database of reported consumer prices, perceived crime rates, quality of health care, other statistics.
Description[edit]
Numbeo is a collaborative online database which enables users to share and compare information about the cost of living between countries and cities. [1]
The Numbeo website is operated by Numbeo doo, company registered in Serbia. The founder of Numbeo is an ex-Google software engineer. [2]
History[edit]
Numbeo was founded in April 2009 by Mladen Adamovic. Originally it was a website for crowd-sourced price comparison, but later in 2011 it started to collect data about crime, pollution, health care, and traffic.
Popularity[edit]
Numbeo was mentioned or used as a source in hundreds of major newspapers around the world, including Forbes, Business Insider, Time, The Economist, BBC, The New York Times, China Daily, The Telegraph. [3]
Numbeo claims to be the biggest website of its kind with more than 1.3 million data collected as of August 2014. [4]
According to Alexa's ranking in August 2014, Numbeo.com was among the top 10,000 websites (ranked by traffic). [5]
Criticism[edit]
Numbeo is considered a good site for comparing everyday prices. But columnist Alistair Walsh suggested in an article written for the website Property Observer, that Numbeo's information is based on what people say and should be taken with grain of salt. [6] However, Walsh does not cite evidence that aggregated self-reports on the scale made possible by Numbeo are less accurate estimates of prices than sponsored price research.
