SingStat prices 2015 to Sep 2026
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Chicken rice in 2016 or kopi this year: which cost more? Real average prices from SingStat. Keep your streak going, guess the price, or play today’s ten.
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From 2015 to 2025 a plate of chicken rice went from S$3.21 to S$4.14 on average, 29% more. A cup of kopi went from S$1.09 to S$1.39, and a bowl of fishball noodles from S$3.21 to S$4.27. Ice kachang went up the most, 39%. Most years prices crept up by 1 to 2.5%; in 2022 and 2023 they jumped, by 6.6% and 6.7% on average.
| Average price, S$ | 2015 | 2020 | 2025 | Sep 2026 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🫖 Kopi-O or teh-O a cup | 0.98 | 1.07 | 1.19 | 1.27 | +30% since 2015 |
| ☕ Kopi or teh a cup | 1.09 | 1.17 | 1.39 | 1.45 | +33% since 2015 |
| 🍫 Milo a cup | – | – | 1.60 | 1.66 | +5% since 2024 |
| 🥤 Canned drink a can | – | – | 1.76 | 1.83 | +5% since 2024 |
| 🍜 Fishball noodles a bowl | 3.21 | 3.50 | 4.27 | 4.44 | +38% since 2015 |
| 🍲 Mee rebus a bowl | 3.01 | 3.30 | 4.00 | 4.19 | +39% since 2015 |
| 🍝 Mee siam a bowl | – | – | 3.88 | 4.03 | +6% since 2024 |
| 🍳 Char kway teow a plate | – | – | 4.62 | 4.83 | +6% since 2024 |
| 🥣 Sliced fish bee hoon a bowl | – | – | 5.81 | 5.94 | +4% since 2024 |
| 🥟 Wanton noodles a plate | – | – | 4.47 | 4.61 | +5% since 2024 |
| 🍖 Char siew rice a plate | – | – | 4.13 | 4.27 | +6% since 2024 |
| 🍗 Chicken rice a plate | 3.21 | 3.47 | 4.14 | 4.25 | +32% since 2015 |
| 🦆 Duck rice a plate | – | – | 4.68 | 4.81 | +5% since 2024 |
| 🍛 Chicken nasi briyani a plate | 5.18 | 5.65 | 6.92 | 7.12 | +37% since 2015 |
| 🍱 Economic rice a plate | 3.15 | 3.37 | 3.74 | 3.81 | +21% since 2015 |
| 🐟 Saba fish with rice a plate | – | – | 6.21 | 6.65 | +9% since 2024 |
| 🍽️ Chicken chop a plate | – | – | 7.80 | 7.93 | +3% since 2024 |
| 🫓 Roti prata a piece | 1.00 | 1.11 | 1.27 | 1.30 | +30% since 2015 |
| 🥕 Fried carrot cake a plate | 2.85 | 3.09 | 3.80 | 3.93 | +38% since 2015 |
| 🍧 Ice kachang a bowl | 1.90 | 2.07 | 2.64 | 2.80 | +47% since 2015 |
Each year is SingStat’s average for the year, and the last column its latest month. From January 2024 SingStat prices a new sample of stalls and items, so a change from 2023 to 2024 isn’t all price. Every item’s price each year: hawker food prices (CSV). Source: Singapore Department of Statistics, Average Retail Prices Of Selected Consumer Items (annual and monthly), under the Singapore Open Data Licence.
The Singapore Department of Statistics’ Average Retail Prices Of Selected Consumer Items, which it collects every month for the consumer price index, averaged across hawker centres, coffee shops and food courts. The game uses its 20 hawker dishes and drinks: ten priced since 2015 (chicken rice, chicken nasi briyani, economic rice, fishball noodles, mee rebus, fried carrot cake, roti prata, ice kachang, kopi or teh, and kopi-O or teh-O) and ten more since 2024. Each year is SingStat’s average for that year; this year’s is the average of its months so far. Used under the Singapore Open Data Licence.
S$3.21 a plate on average, says SingStat. By 2025 it was S$4.14, 29% more. A bowl of fishball noodles cost the same S$3.21 in 2015 and S$4.27 by 2025.
Of the 20 SingStat prices, in 2025 the dearest was chicken chop, S$7.80 a plate on average, then chicken nasi briyani at S$6.92. The cheapest was a cup of kopi-O or teh-O, S$1.19, then a plain roti prata at S$1.27 a piece.
It didn’t really. In January 2024 SingStat moved to a new basket of stalls and items for the consumer price index, and it says prices from then aren’t a pure measure of price changes from before. Four items came out cheaper in 2024 than in 2023: kopi-O or teh-O, chicken rice (S$4.15 to S$4.08), economic rice (S$3.82 to S$3.70) and roti prata. In the game they count as they are.
At random, by how far apart the two prices are. The first pair is about 50% apart; each right answer brings the next pair closer, to about 20% by a streak of 5, about 11% by 10 and around 6% after that. An item can face itself in another year. Nothing comes up twice in a run.
A price within 3% of SingStat’s average gets 10 points, and each 3% further off one point less, down to none from 30% off. A year spot on gets 10 points (or any year the dish cost exactly that), a year off 6, two years off 3 and three years off 1. Ten rounds, so 100 at most.
The date in Singapore picks the ten pairs, so everyone gets the same ones that day and can compare scores. They start easy and end tough. A new set comes at midnight.
Not exactly: it’s an average over many stalls, and every stall sets its own price. SingStat finds food courts usually charge more than hawker centres for the same dish.
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