Dollar Street

In the news people in other cultures seem stranger than they are.

We visited 264 families in 50 countries and collected 30,000 photos.

We sorted the homes by income, from left to right.

See how people really live

Families

Families all over the World are more similar than we might think. The poorest still get many children, but most families have about two children. Sometimes families take care of their elderly relatives as well as their children.

in by income by $

Families in the World by $

$27 Burundi

$228 Tanzania

$827 Kyrgyzstan

$10 098 China

$29 India

$234 Indonesia

$750 South Africa

$10 090 Ukraine

$30 Malawi

$227 Cameroon

$840 China

$7 433 Jordan

$31 India

$238 Philippines

$845 Brazil

$6 342 Mexico