Tell it what you earn.
It will tell you who you are —
everywhere on earth.

One number, eight billion neighbours. See where you really stand — and who you would be if your income lived somewhere else.

Your country

Household income People it supports Born in (optional)

Your number never leaves this page. The math happens on your device — nothing is stored, nothing is sent anywhere.

Before we show you —

where do you think you stand?

This field is all 8 billion of us, poorest to richest. Move the marker to your honest guess.

You reckon you’re richer than 50% of humanity.

poorestrichest

This is everyone.

8,100,000,000 people

Sorted by income — lowest at the bottom, highest at the top. Every dot is about 580,000 people.

And this one is you.

You earn more than — of them.

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Eight billion is not a number a mind can hold. So make it a village.

100 earners

The whole world, one hundred people — every figure is about 81 million. The gold one is you.

Of your 99 neighbours, — earn less than you, and — earn more.

Now — who would you be somewhere else?

Tap a country. Any country. Your income comes with you; the life around it changes.

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Pick a country to begin.

Daily income per person, PPP dollars — the curve is this country; the gold dot is you.

Visit one more country and the journey continues.

— people live on less than you.

Each lit dot below your place in the field is about 400,000 of them. Real lives, mostly getting on with it.

Before the next part — draw a guess.

Since 1990, what has the share of humanity in extreme poverty done?

Start at the dot, draw to the right edge.

Now the part the headlines skip.

1990

Extreme poverty: 43% of humanity

The field lights up as the decades pass. The world can be bad and getting better — both are true at once, and only one of them makes the news. And the lift came the unglamorous way: wages, harvests, workshops — people making things for one another, and getting paid.

Money placed you among everyone alive. Time places you among everyone ever.

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UN World Population Prospects · PRB, “How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth?” · rounded hard, floored, never inflated.

One more lens: money doesn't change size when it travels. It changes weight.

Pick any slice of a year of your income. The number stays the same — its weight doesn't:

1%

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A “typical income” is the median of each country's curve — the same curves you've been walking through, in PPP dollars.

For scale: all the world's foreign aid put together comes to less than 1% of what the poorer half of the curve earns for itself each year. The line you watched didn't move because someone was rescued — it moved because billions of people got up and went to work, year after year.

If this stirs something

Some people reach this point wanting to send money somewhere. No math and no pressure from us — just a few organisations picked to rhyme with what you've seen: money as working capital, people as earners, not cases.

Kiva — lend someone working capital; most of it comes back
One Acre Fund — farmers finance their own seeds and repay from the harvest
BRAC — born in Bangladesh, funds most of its own work through its own enterprises
Village Enterprise — seed capital and coaching for first businesses in East Africa

We never touch donations.

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Take this with you: the world is further along than the stories suggest — and it keeps moving the way it always has, one working day at a time.

The globe stays unlocked for you now — come back and wander it any time from the top of the page.

Tell it what you earn.It will tell you who you are —everywhere on earth.

where do you think you stand?

Now — who would you be somewhere else?

One more lens: money doesn't change size when it travels. It changes weight.

Your card, assembling itself.

Tell it what you earn.
It will tell you who you are —
everywhere on earth.