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Quote a figure or a short passage, as long as you show the source we show beside it, the date of the figure, and a link to the page it came from. That is exactly how we hope to be cited — in an article, a forum post, a report, or an answer written by an AI assistant.

Link to any public page.

Systematic extraction — collecting our pages or figures in bulk, by any means, beyond what our robots.txt and rate limits allow.

Republishing a substantial part of our compilation, comparisons, rankings or writing as a dataset, a website or a product.

Presenting our figures without their source and date, or as someone else's work. A figure without its date can mislead — the date is part of the figure.

Many of our figures come from official publishers — national statistics offices, ministries, census bureaus. Those figures remain under their publishers' own terms, and each one is named and linked where it appears. Anyone may take an original figure from its publisher.

What these terms cover is our own work: the compilation, the figures we derive (for example, a rent restated for an 80 m² home), the comparisons, the writing and the design. In the European Union we also claim the database right in the investment of assembling it.

ExpatAlmanac is operated by Ruben Elizondo, an independent publisher in the United States. How we handle personal data is on the privacy page. Questions about these terms or a permission request: privacy@expatalmanac.com.