Tell it what you earn.
It will show you where you stand —
and who you'd be, everywhere on earth.
One number, eight billion neighbours. See where you really stand — and who you would be if your income lived somewhere else.
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One dot among eight billion.
Before we show you —
where do you think you stand?
This field is all eight billion of us, poorest at the bottom, richest at the top. Slide the line to your honest guess.
You reckon you’re richer than 50% of humanity.
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Elsewhere, you are someone else.
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.
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The line that moved.
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Money changes weight when it travels.
Pick any slice of a year of your income.
The number stays the same. Its weight doesn't:
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Each is someone at the middle of their country's curve — the same curves, and the same people, you've been walking through. In PPP dollars.
If this stirs something
Some people reach this point wanting to send money somewhere. If that's you: four organisations picked to rhyme with what you've seen — money as working capital, people as earners, not cases.
- Kiva — lend someone working capital, repaid over time
- 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.
Your card, assembling itself.
Take this with you: the world is further along than most of us picture it — 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.
That's everyone.
You were here.