Kids at every income level reveal their favorite toys

By Gus Lubin From Business Insider

If you want to understand the world, look at how people live. Toys are a good place to start.

Dollar Street, a soon-to-launch project from the Gapminder Foundation, went into hundreds of homes at different income levels around the world to photograph people’s possessions. It makes clear a few things:

—Some people have very, very little.

—People at similar income levels lead similar lives, a sign that economics matter more than culture.

—People at all income levels have a lot number of similarities too. Among them: toys.

“It’s striking to see how similar our lives are,” Gapminder co-founder Anna Rosling Rönnlund told Business Insider. “It makes the world less scary to see that most people struggle with everyday business most of the time and they are not so exotic and it’s not so scary.”

With Dollar Street’s official launch coming soon, check out some favorite toys around the world.

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In an Indian home living on $29/month per adult, the favorite toy is a plastic bottle.
Zoriah Miller for Dollar Street
In a Burundian home living on $29/month per adult, the favorite toy is dried maize.
Johan Eriksson for Dollar Street
In a Zimbabwean home living on $34/month per adult, the favorite toy is a home-made ball.
Zoriah Miller for Dollar Street
In a Haitian home living on $39/month per adult, the favorite toy is a tennis ball.
Zoriah Miller for Dollar Street
In a Zimbabwean home living on $41/month per adult, the favorite toy is an old toy car.
Zoriah Miller for Dollar Street
In a Burkinabe home living on $45/month per adult, the favorite toy is a broken plastic doll.
Zoriah Miller for Dollar Street
In a Burkinabe home living on $54/month per adult, the favorite toy is a tire.
Zoriah Miller for Dollar Street
In an Indian home living on $65/month per adult, the favorite toy is a home-made cricket bat.
Zoriah Miller for Dollar Street
In an Indian home living on $80/month per adult, the favorite toy is a broken plastic doll.
Zoriah Miller for Dollar Street
In a Filipino home living on $98/month per adult, the favorite toys are action figures.
Luc Forsyth for Dollar Street
In a Palestinian home living on $112/month per adult, the favorite toy is a plastic bottle.
Eman Jomaa for Dollar Street
In a Colombian home living on $123/month per adult, the favorite toy is a soccer ball.
Zoriah Miller for Dollar Street
In a Nigerian home living on $124/month per adult, the favorite toys are wooden poles.
Johan Eriksson for Dollar Street
In a Colombian home living on $145/month per adult, the favorite toy is a plastic ball.
Zoriah Miller for Dollar Street
In a Colombian home living on $163/month per adult, the favorite toy is a cat.
Zoriah Miller for Dollar Street
In a Filipino home living on $170/month per adult, the favorite toy is a plastic doll.
Luc Forsyth for Dollar Street
In a Tunisian home living on $176/month per adult, the favorite toy is a teddy bear.
Zoriah Miller for Dollar Street
In a Tunisian home living on $218/month per adult, the favorite toy is a scooter.
Zoriah Miller for Dollar Street
In an Indian home living on $245/month per adult, the favorite toy is a toy truck.
Zoriah Miller for Dollar Street
In a Jordanian home living on $249/month per adult, the favorite toy is a stuffed animal.
Zoriah Miller for Dollar Street
In a Rwandan home living on $251/month per adult, the favorite toy is a stick.
Johan Eriksson for Dollar Street
In a Bolivian home living on $254/month per adult, the favorite toy is a soccer ball.
Zoriah Miller for Dollar Street
In a Bolivian home living on $265/month per adult, the favorite toy is a toy truck.
Zoriah Miller for Dollar Street
In a Cambodian home living on $463/month per adult, the favorite toy is a puppy.
Luc Forsyth for Dollar Street
In a Ukrainian home living on $476/month per adult, the favorite toy is a cell phone.
Zoriah Miller for Dollar Street
In a Latvian home living on $480/month per adult, the favorite toy is a stuffed animal.
Johan Eriksson for Dollar Street
In a Jordanian home living on $583/month per adult, the favorite toy is a table computer.
Zoriah Miller for Dollar Street
In a Ukrainian home living on $694/month per adult, the favorite toy is a Lego figurine.
Zoriah Miller for Dollar Street
In a Mexican home living on $1,093/month per adult, the favorite toy is an electric guitar.
Lucia Rodrigez for Dollar Street
In a Swedish home living on $2,223/month per adult, the favorite toys are plastic dolls
Zoriah Miller for Dollar Street
In a Chinese home living on $2,235/month per adult, the favorite toy is a military tank model.
Benikhlef Abdelhak for Dollar Street
In a Kenyan home living on $3,268/month per adult, the favorite toy is a tablet computer.
Johan Selin for Dollar Street
In a Nepalese home living on $3,829/month per adult, the favorite toy is a teddy bear.
Luc Forsyth for Dollar Street
In an American home living on $4,650/month per adult, the favorite toy is baseball gear.
Zoriah Miller for Dollar Street
In a Swedish home living on $4,883/month per adult, the favorite toy is a Lego set.
Moa Karlberg for Dollar Street
In a Jordanian home living on $7,433/month per adult, the favorite toy is a large stuffed animal.
Zoriah Miller for Dollar Street
In a Latvian home living on $11,381/month per adult, the favorite toy is a stuffed animal.
Johan Eriksson for Dollar Street
In case you were wondering, here’s a look at world population by income. It’s a continuous scale — not a clear divide between the haves and the have-nots — with most people in the middle.
gapminder.org

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