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The Price of Sex around the World Mapped

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The Prostitution business makes US$186 billion per year. According to Economist, In 2006, the cost for one hour of sex with a female sex worker averaged $340 worldwide. Nowadays, the average rate is down to $260. But how does this billion-dollar industry trickle down to the workers who make it possible?

To find out, the Havocscope team analyzed thousands of profiles of female sex workers on 200 websites, covering 55 countries, from escort directories to agencies and some of the most recognized international sites.

The prices obtained for the visualization aren’t “the standard,” rather the approximate average of prices published in 2019 by the many escorts on the web.

It’s worth mentioning that we are not talking about prostitution in general but independent escorts or legally authorized agencies. These are not prices that you can find in the streets late at night or in the famous red-light districts, so they are much higher than one would think.

To make the task easier, all costs are converted to U.S. dollars and reflect only the costs for 1 hour of service, without including transportation costs or extra services.

How much do escorts charge around the world?

How much do escorts charge around the world

How much do escorts charge in North and Central America?

How much do escorts charge in North and Central America

How much do escorts charge in South America?

How much do escorts charge in South America

How much do escorts charge in Europe?

How much do escorts charge in Europe

How much do escorts charge in Africa, Asia, and Oceania?

How much do escorts charge in Africa, Asia and Oceania

Prostitution is legal in approximately 52% of the world, limitedly legal in 12% and illegal in 35%.

RankCountryAvg. Rate Hour ($)
1Australia350
1Germany350
1Singapore350
1United Kingdom350
2Poland320
3Belgium300
3Martinique300
3Japan300
3New Zealand300
3South Africa300
4Czech Republic290
5Finland260
6Norway250
6United States250
7Israel240
8Austria230
8China230
8Ireland230
8Italy230
8Spain230
9Cyprus210
10Belarus200
10Brazil200
10Canada200
10India 200
10Russia200
10Sweden200
10Switzerland200
11Croatia180
11Netherlands180
11Panama180
12Portugal175
13Egypt170
13Greece170
14Costa Rica150
14Cote d’Ivoire150
14Mexico150
14Nigeria150
14Paraguay150
14Peru150
14Thailand150
14Ukraine150
15Bulgaria140
15Philippines140
16Romania125
17Bolivia120
17Chile120
18Argentina100
18Ecuador100
18El Salvador100
18Nicaragua100
18Venezuela100
19Guatemala80
19Honduras80
19Uruguay80
20Colombia50
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Unknown
Unknown
1 year ago

Why is this needed…? This isn’t a really good thought promoter. The price of a love affair without marriage? You are buying the use of someone’s body for an hour! Think of the transmitted-diseases that can come from this! So many reasons not to do it. Please understand, this map is not appropriate.

Priapism
Priapism
1 year ago
Reply to  Unknown

And yet you visited this page….

John
John
1 year ago
Reply to  Unknown

Obviously not everyone agrees with you. Sex is the only commodity some people even have to sell. Your moralism doesn’t make life any easier for these people.

Ron ing
Ron ing
24 days ago
Reply to  Unknown

Of course this map is appropriate. Knowledge is always power over one’s own life.

None
None
3 years ago

Wow…..the people who made this had no clue.

The real cost is about $20. High end girls get about $100

Kari Sherard
Kari Sherard
2 years ago
Reply to  None

I’ve been in prostitute / escort for 8 years of my life now I’m never what I ever do anything for 20$ in fact the cheapest date I do is $100 for a blow n go..
So please no more facts before you stay your opinion that doesn’t even matter anyways ?

Jeronamo
Jeronamo
2 years ago
Reply to  Kari Sherard

I’ve been using prostitute for 12 years, and for $100 I’d be re-arranging organs. With today’s economy and inflation, I’d say $50 is the average. At least in Spain.

Jason
Jason
2 years ago
Reply to  Jeronamo

Where in Spain? It’s more like 100 in clubs, about double what it was in 2006.

Tanita
Tanita
2 years ago
Reply to  Jeronamo

You are re arranging organs wow this is scary

rondom
rondom
2 years ago
Reply to  Tanita

that’s funny and scary

John
John
1 year ago
Reply to  Jeronamo

Rearranging organs??? Qué???

Ron ing
Ron ing
24 days ago
Reply to  Jeronamo

I’m a man, not especially tough, but not fragile. I’ve always loved being a man. I must have been a good person to come into this life as a fully functioning man. I feel incredibly fortunate to be tall, muscular and hairy and sufficiently hung to give and receive pleasure. So what does “rearrange organs” mean to you?

None
None
2 years ago
Reply to  Kari Sherard

i mean, other people would do it for 20$(maybe they are addicted to drugs?)

GoldenPennis80
GoldenPennis80
2 years ago
Reply to  None

Yes. There are poor countries which have such rates. 20$-60$ for half or 1 hour is ok there. You can have love affair with really gorgeous girls for that price. The maps are not precise. Because these prices ( 100- 120-150$) are normal for the United States but not for countries with low economy..

rbtest
rbtest
1 year ago
Reply to  GoldenPennis80

Pattaya – 30-100 USD
Bangkok -50-100
Bengaluru 70-200 (Lot of cheaters)
Poona budwarpet 10-100

Zero
Zero
1 year ago
Reply to  None

Some will do it for a high

Eoin O'Caernaigh
Eoin O'Caernaigh
10 months ago
Reply to  None

Most of the extremely dependence-forming drugs are more appealing (during acute flares of so-called addiction) than intercourse. Now these are mainly Indo-European encultured places, thus patrilocal and patriarchal (more crappy prospect men compared to good prospect women – but still so male-centred that a virgin female at age 40 who is physically pretty is just ‘a catch waiting for a lucky guy’ (I’ve heard this nonsense – the woman likely suffers loneliness albeit slightly less than the 40 year old male virgin who isn’t socially a buffoon nor physically unattractive – males in such cultures are taught to (and I agree being raised in USA but I see it is stupid logic) keep all public emotion at ‘cool and collected’ with some ‘righteous rage’ at ‘deviants’ (despite my Generation Millennial before the drugs supply became lethal around 2017 for mu-opioid-full-agonists, that no lie, myself included (I don’t even drink or smoke or have any real appeal to other drugs and luckily haven’t spent money on opioids since 2016 albeit with the weird anti-addictive semi-opioid buprenorphine which – no – you do not even feel – it is as if taking a vitamin so there’s the truth b/c I take 16mg per day to prevent my life from accidental relapse…But why such worry. I am 36/37, male with dark hair, tawny skin, yet blue eyes, who is only 5 foot 10 inches tall but a shrimpy 144 lbs..My facial appearance and ‘skin tone’ are desirable. But I have been diagnosed with all those disorders that involve excessive effort to understand, organically, the flow of sociosexual and other relationships of which despite the farce of equity, one party has to censor a lot of what they do or say, like when the police ask you at 0100 hrs what your cocaine-infused neighboreenos are doing (despite my not calling the LE on them), and I have been capriciously arrested (never charged – always had a good laugh at the misperception later) by LE (local ones usually) who think I am a ‘deviant’ because of my extreme anxiety knowing that once again I may have to spend three hours explaining some ‘autistic’ or ‘schizoid’ cognitive construct that allows me to actually help the LE. It is not easy to get intercourse let alone with passion and tenderness (I’ve kissed two women in my 20s for 10 minutes each so wow) – but the literature backs up that it is WAY WORSE for female ‘autistics’ or ‘schizophrenia-spectrums’ even if they, like me, are physically better looking than their age peers.

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Ron ing
Ron ing
24 days ago

Seems that everyone has a cross-to bear, and a couple of yours are tougher than many others. Autism is certainly not easy. And general anxiety is tough. It seems that you’ve got that one drug you take figured out. What seems to be one of your 2 main points is that both nature and thousands of years of social evolution have favored men: We’re stronger and taller and hairier. We don’t/can’t bear children, but we DO have a big responsibility for getting them to self-sufficiency. Good men put that yoke gracefully, even gladly. BUT we’ve got SO MUCH more freedom. From a young age-before we’re 10 we’re allowed, even encouraged to not take ourselves too seriously. I think that’s how you get through being rousted by police with minimal emotional trauma- you know it’s going to be OK, and, you haven’t cried since you got pubes because it’s a waste of time. It’s pretty common for women , from their teens to their middle20s to cry over a minor traffic ticket, but it’s rare for men to do that. (the anxiety and autism may make the crying thing untrue for you, though.) Even most women wouldn’t be traumatized if she found her 16 year old son drunk and passed out on the front lawn in his underwear. (Yes driving drunk changes everything) Sex at 14? Actually a bad idea, but there’s no reputational damage for men. So, I’ll die a couple of years earlier because I was born with a set of nuts? Sounds fair to me.

GoldenPennis80
GoldenPennis80
2 years ago
Reply to  Kari Sherard

Listen, it depends where are you from. If you from USA or European contries you are all right. Although, for 100 dollars I had good service in the USA. None, is all right. You can get a service for 20 bucks in poor countries such Mexico, Thailand, India and so on so forth. Thats why people travel there.

Shane
Shane
1 year ago
Reply to  Kari Sherard

It depends on where you are at. In Bogota, you can go down to Santa Fe and get a short time 20 min, with a girl that would easily rate an 8+ in the U.S. for $15 or less. Not the robotic pay for every extra that I experienced in Europe either. A full-service GFE experience that can be mind-blowing. I gorgeous girl to your hotel room will cost $50 an hour.

John
John
1 year ago
Reply to  Shane

I believe there is an influx of Venezuelan that women who are working as sex workers in Colombia.

Shane
Shane
9 months ago
Reply to  John

Yes, I would say at least half the sex workers in Colombia are Venezuelan.

Shane
Shane
9 months ago
Reply to  Kari Sherard

Obviously Kari is from a developed country and has no idea about prices in other parts of the world. In Colombia you can get a short-time full service for $15 with a woman that’s a solid 8 or 9 by U.S. standards.

Maxwell
Maxwell
27 days ago
Reply to  Kari Sherard

I am definitely not an escort but have hired more then my fair share both expensive and cheap. And there are plenty of escorts in 1st world countries like where I live in Canada that will do full service for $100. Just because you don’t doesn’t mean you set the prices

Sylvia
Sylvia
2 years ago
Reply to  None

I charge 400-500AUD/hr in Brisbane Australia, more in Sydney and Melbourne, and more still in Singapore. One hour is minimum booking time. I am average price, not high end. I’m in my 40s and not skinny, no surgery or filler etc, although I do look young for age. High end escorts charge 700-1200/hr and often have 2 hour minimum.

Tanita
Tanita
2 years ago
Reply to  Sylvia

Two hours minimum for a creepy client lol no thanks

PrettyPrincess69
PrettyPrincess69
2 years ago
Reply to  Sylvia

what kind of volume do you do though? approximate earnings per day of working? Thanks!

John
John
1 year ago
Reply to  Sylvia

Thanks for your sharing Sylvia. Out of interest are your work hours limited by the client takers at this price or by your personal hours you want to work?

Eoin O'Caernaigh
Eoin O'Caernaigh
10 months ago
Reply to  Sylvia

Fascinating perspective- thanks for the candid sharing.

Samora
Samora
2 years ago
Reply to  None

your correct but its a good reference point

Ron ing
Ron ing
24 days ago
Reply to  None

I’m just a working man who visited several prostitutes before and after age 20 because at a particular moment I wanted what I wanted and was willing to pay for a guaranteed “reward,” But I’m not confident that I could “perform” with a $20 woman. For just an hour, I wasn’t looking for a “trophy wife”–just a bit of civil conversation and actually, what passed for respect. But even for a 20 minute meeting I need to think my “partner” has showered in recent days.

Alius Umbra
Alius Umbra
3 years ago

Great map! I wish there were more of these. Is there an updated version that filters out countries that are still closed due to COVID19?

Chaplin
Chaplin
5 years ago

I was gonna “like” this, but then I thought my wife might see it!!!!

Alex E
Alex E
5 years ago
Reply to  Chaplin

And by commenting she still might.

Richard Crandall
Richard Crandall
2 years ago
Reply to  Chaplin

Like it anyway. If she doesn’t have a sense of humor….

disbelief
3 years ago
Reply to  Chaplin

LOL

GoldenPennis80
GoldenPennis80
2 years ago

The information isn’t precise..because I live in the United States and in this country you pay for 30 minutes 100$ and 120$ for 1 hour if it is Asian service..or 160 for 30 minutes if it’s none asian service. This is one of cheapest prices in the States. 60$ you pay there for 15 minutes if is the Latina American service. In the poor countries you can’t pay for 1 hour 100$ or 150$ dollars. Even the girls is really beautiful it might cost less. The avergae price for poor countries should be for 30 minutes or 1 hour 20$-60$.

X Guy
X Guy
2 years ago

It’s all about negotiation guys, a lot of people pay a lot for average service, but if you know how to negotiate and pick the right ones, you’ll have a good deal.

For the workers, sorry about that;)

Kamel
Kamel
2 years ago

No wonder this is an american report you people get scamed all the time africa around 5 to 40 for whole night not an hour and you get discount for whole week at least not in clubs im talking about working women no pimp! Dubai 35$ to 700$ …1000$ to 25000$+ for famous models/actors in instagram american and russians most of the time

RandomGUy
RandomGUy
2 years ago

So, i agree with the poster “None” The person who did this has absolute no fucking clue.

Been to thailand, Colombia and other places multiple times, It’s probably 1/3.

Thai Girls for 1 night is around 1000-1500 baht. There’s gogo bars for 4000 baht with high end girls.

Colombia, easy 15-30 dollars max. High end 70-100. dollars.

Now i don’t know if the User who made this sells or buys, but it’s not accurate, for many countries i’ve been to.

AwA
AwA
2 years ago

In France it’s bassicly $100 for 30min some girls takes $150 and more. And there is girls who accept $80, $60 and $50 it’s depend of the hour, the personne…

Ethiopian Guy
Ethiopian Guy
2 years ago

In Ethiopia you can get pussy for 1 dollar

quriosity
quriosity
1 year ago
Reply to  Ethiopian Guy

ya! where? I’m asking for research purposes.

John
John
1 year ago
Reply to  quriosity

What’s the title of your paper…. just thought I’d ask.

Eoin O'Caernaigh
Eoin O'Caernaigh
10 months ago
Reply to  quriosity

The nation is in a violent civil war, so this is survival sex-work. An American or even an East-African who isn’t Tigray or Ahmara Blacksmith could end up castrated for all you know!

TETO
TETO
2 years ago

Every time this type of post comes out is the same thing, the information is way off and the wishful hookers that chime in with tales of $1500 an hour. Yes, some of the posters are correct about Thailand, Colombia, India etc. You can get laid in the US for about $ 100 average, you get White girls that just because they are skinny and young want to charge a fortune, most of the time the ad disappear very soon.

Evelyn jessica
Evelyn jessica
1 year ago
Reply to  TETO

As for me,I stay at the United States and I’ve been doing hook up for a while and even till now.
Well,I do charge $100 for an hour and it very certain you’ll be happy to pay me because you are even gonna like I’ll I’m gonna handle you
The money isn’t the problem but you should work for it

Ahahahahaha
2 years ago

In india you will get collage teen only in 15 $ and above 28+ you will get in 7 $ and outside of India you will get 75$ per hour also for entire night for 18 to 35 girls is 100-120$

Seb
Seb
1 year ago
Reply to  Ahahahahaha

Where? I was in India and it was $75 (rs 6000) for 30 mins, only bj with condom no sex (charged extra for sex) with an ugly girl in a dark room with light shut so I can’t see anything…

Bobby
Bobby
1 year ago
Reply to  Seb

You got ripped off in a major way. Wouldn’t pay that in Amsterdam!

Diego
Diego
2 years ago

Peru 150 the hour, no way! I think they googled in english not in the native language. Even tho I think it would still inflated in almost every country. In Russia where I live now is like 50 dollars 1 hour with a normal/good one from a escort website, Im sure in a brothel would be less. Of course if you wanna find high prices you can find.

TruthTeller
TruthTeller
2 years ago

this is not true at all, you get sex for 100 € p. hour everywhere in europe

Whocares?
Whocares?
2 years ago

What a load of rubbish.

Lori
Lori
2 years ago

In Eastern Europe, you can find 18-year-old girls for 20 to 50 euros because there is no economy

Seb
Seb
1 year ago
Reply to  Lori

On what websites? (and which countries)?

Eoin O'Caernaigh
Eoin O'Caernaigh
10 months ago
Reply to  Seb

OMG you know how to use the more ‘unconventional’ internet access schemes if you have ever done anything the least bit illegal (usually that is buying pharmaceuticals as those sites don’t host sex workers for the attention LE would give them – same with adulterated products – LE shuts ya down – same with big orders obviously meant for redistribution – LE DDOS’s). But I won’t name the interface however I think you can find what it is although it isn’t easy to the castratoesque expectations of service these days (oops that’s castratophobic – sorry my Italian Soprano Singers of the 19th century – your voices were likely angelic lol).

AND please no one tell them the three letter word and expect the naive person to not end up in big time situations of losing money, facilitating sexual violence, or facilitating lacing of narcotics with the alphamethylfentanyls. Its best kept low until LE can weed out the nutties.

Kniy
Kniy
2 years ago

Indian prostitute avg price is 1000rs per hour which is less than $20

Seb
Seb
1 year ago
Reply to  Kniy

Which websites can I find that in?

Nigel
Nigel
2 years ago

Supply and demand ! These price are not accurate! Half toa quarter even less! The legal brothels don’t charge these prices! Interesting report!

lo scopatore
lo scopatore
1 year ago

Speaking about Italy, the starting rate is €50 for “bocca e fica” (blow and fuck). There’s usually a €20 surcharge if you want the blowjob without a condom. You’re expected to conclude your business within half an hour maximum.
For the $230 the map suggests, you *should* get an hour’s GFE with a young and attractive girl (usually East European), although in an unregulated industry there are obviously no guarantees

Fake
Fake
1 year ago

USA here, I would love to see an update to this data. I’m in a metropolitan area and only the really suspicious escorts charge less than 300 or barely less. Those ones are usually from outside the country. I would say in 2017 the average was 500 but now it’s really increased between 600-900 in 2023. The providers I see are usually over $1k but they do provide me with what I want and also speak my language (English).

Just to be clear, I could find these $300 ladies if I wanted but I would be running to the STD clinic for a checkup right after. Even with protection.

It’s funny because I would say Japan is far cheaper than the US, despite it also being an industrialized nation. Usually you can find very high quality girls for $600.

Seb
Seb
1 year ago
Reply to  Fake

1K+? Jesus! How often do you get an escort and what’s your salary? If you wanted to get laid once a week that would run you 5.4K monthly (assuming your average conquest is 1.2K). 5.4K id significantly more than the average US citizen makes per month total…to spend over a week’s worth of earnings in one hour…or rather to make that in an hour, these girls are making a killing!

Eoin O'Caernaigh
Eoin O'Caernaigh
10 months ago
Reply to  Seb

Some men and women have severe socioemotional difficulties finding sexual-romantic partners due to so-called neurodevlopmental disorders (I have diagnosed a whole laundry list of them – still not sure if it’s bullcrap or a kernel of truth that the Superego of the American Government that inflates the price of nice, fun, happy-ish sex with someone your own attractiveness level (many of the autistic people if they are aware that it isn’t that hard to drastically improve one’s physical hotness – man or woman (though as a male heterosexual I can only go from conversatoins with female attractive autistics), like how I learned that since my skin tone is olive, I can tan nice, and that I am prone to not weight more than BMI 19 due to medicine poisoning that happened a few years ago (Sodium Divalproate). But I buy nice fitting clothes, ironically see and ‘flirt’ with shy or borderlie socially divergent other 30-40 y/o great looking and charming women, but autism comes with incredible anxiety if you are capable of speaking (some of us cannot or can only speak in front of very ‘safe’ people despite not all being beaten or anyting as children, its a cultural and genetic ’21st century mental malady’ IMO – it was called schizoid for awhile until the link to psychosis was shown to be present but rather weak. You are basically always having a critical running commentary in your head that you do anything to ignore, laught at (its not actual ‘sound’ just ‘inner speech’ like everyone else but way more protracted – like immobilized for three hours worrying about something trivial).

So sadly there are a small but existant percentage of 30-40 (or whatever your decade age is) autistic, schizoid, or bipolar, etc. recovered (except the incurable core aloofness that is so sad) from the early rage and shaking fear, who know how to look good in their own way (7.5/10 is not that rare – one autistic woman said I was an 8 1/4 of 10 but that might have been excitement at work or my suntan). But yet the flirting stops abruptly when one party gets too nervous and I remain a virgin at 37! I think that is what drives sex work customers who are male at least in patrilocal/archal societies who don’t buy into ‘psychologization of differences’.

Greg
Greg
1 year ago

These prices are complete garbage. Prices in Southeast Asia and Africa are under $20.

Last edited 1 year ago by Greg
Seb
Seb
1 year ago
Reply to  Greg

Really!! On what websites? (and which SE Asian countries)?

Ramón
Ramón
1 year ago

This is totally wrong SPAIN IS OVER 60$ FOR SERVICE EVEN LESS

Acho
Acho
1 year ago

In Cameroon is 2bucks ?

Jan
Jan
1 year ago

This is a complete and utter BULLSHIT graphic!! I think it was made with intent to discourage people from buying sex, because honesty I really can’t understand how can you be that stupid and finding so inaccurate prices (even with low effort research in english language sites)

In Poland for example, the average price for good looking girl on escort sites like escort(dot)pl is 50-70 USD per hour outcall.
Plus there are MAANY announcments for 25-50 USD from average girls per hour as well.

For 100-120 USD they have to be real busty thicc sex dolls. And everything above are some instagram/tik tok models or simple scams for foreigners who have no idea about prices.

320 USD is a little lower than average monthly pension on retirement here.
It is hard to comprehend how ridiculous this graphic is, not only with regards to Poland.

Furthermore, I was in Brazil in 2019
In Rio (Copacabana) – I paid 60 USD (300 reais) (for 2 hours) with young super cute girl. Although it was not definitely GFE.

rocksasikeralacochinn
rocksasikeralacochinn
1 year ago

200$ average? You guys have absolutely no freaking idea about prostitution in India, There are places where you will get sex for as low as 1$ and most people who pays for sex does not even think about going above 10$, because they are doing it on a daily basis or at least weekly basis.

Charles
Charles
1 year ago

Now how is Thailand illegal yet videos of people going abroad for prostitution go viral all the time? This article is sus

Shane
Shane
9 months ago
Reply to  Charles

The law is on the books, but it’s never enforced.

Last edited 9 months ago by Shane
John Travels
John Travels
1 year ago

These prices may seem good, BUT imagine the ACTUAL cost to:
trafficked victims,
communicable diseases (ESPECIALLY HIV)
USE PROTECTION!

John
John
1 year ago
Reply to  John Travels

Trafficking is a major concern and one of the reasons i would avoid sex tourism to poorer countries.

Eoin O'Caernaigh
Eoin O'Caernaigh
10 months ago
Reply to  John

Be careful in the States or UK too, mate. It’s pretty easy to tell if a woman is under duress from trafficking IMO, so don’t let your guard down – plus LE is really going after the US 131 corridor and the M11.

Sunny
Sunny
1 year ago

It is Shocking that They haven’t mentioned Bangladesh while Prostitution is 100 Percent legal there… and you can get A girl for Even 1 dollar…

Nick
Nick
1 year ago

When you’re good looking dude, they normally pay you. Money for nothing pussy for free.

joe
joe
1 year ago

Numbers are absolute nonsense as far as se asia goes. Why post this when you clearly have no idea what you’re talking about.

Alex
Alex
1 year ago

Really I was in sex massage room one hour agoa and pay 150 CAD for 30 minutes fuck and suck to a gorgiouse panjabu girl 22 years old that she has two limon were soft and deliciouse .All rate for 30-45 minutes in canada 150 to 200 CAD

Colombia
Colombia
1 year ago

Boys We moving to Colombia

Mrroundtree42@gmail.com
5 months ago

This list is complete bullshit. 🤣 I go to a lot of these countries and the prices are WAYYYY cheaper for example in Peru a woman is $5 in villages to $15 in Lima.

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