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Worth mentioning that this looks to be based on mean salaries rather than median so your real world percentages would likely be higher.

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No, it literally says it’s based on the median at the bottom.

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Isn’t this just lowest median salary displayed a different way?

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Sort of, they also use the local price. So tarrifs play a role.

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Is the cost of an iPhone in usd in all these different countries available in the same format?

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Its over 300 dollars more expensive in Denmark than in the US…

1115 dollars here

800 msrp in the US

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And all the Applefanboys will be like “shut up and take my money”.

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And all the colored girls say doo do doo doo do doo doo doo

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I think baby shark says that one

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Interesting seen this way.

Word of note though. Salaries are quiet spread out. The people likely to buy new iPhones are likely people earning top 1% of salaries in most countries in Africa.

If this viz is focusing on average salary, then it is a general description and should not be compared to other countries with different income spreads (min-max). It can be quite deceptive. Upper middle class in a place like Kenya or Myanmar live a far more better life overall than say lower middle class folk in the US.

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Would this look any different if it displayed average salary instead of iPhone price as a percentage of average salary?

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Yes because items are priced differently in different countries

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