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The household scale assigns 1 to the first person aged 14+, 0.5 to other people aged 14+ and 0.3 to children aged 13 or under. Equivalised income describes living standards, not each person’s money. The world comparison concerns income or consumption per person and includes all ages; the range between PIP thresholds is not a confidence interval.

The simulation stops the income entered and uses savings, investments and saleable assets, but not property. It stops at 50 years: “at least 50 years” is the calculation limit, not a forecast beyond it.

Time: a personal scenario

Reported free time is 168 hours minus sleep, work, travel and caring. The second bar also subtracts all weekly water and firewood hours reported for the selected family. This models you doing these tasks alone while keeping other commitments unchanged; it is not measured free time for a member of that family. Source hours are household totals and their individual distribution is unknown. The result stops at zero; any shortfall is shown separately. We infer neither happiness nor quality of life from this scenario.

Work and available time

Dollar Street’s Nepal family 111 profile reports 120 total working hours a week and two working parents, but gives neither individual hours nor a full diary. We do not automatically divide the total by two or add 120 hours to one person’s week. Comparable totals were unavailable in the Malawi and Burundi profiles consulted. The personal comparison therefore remains limited to water and firewood; it is not a full estimate of these families’ free time and does not quantify working-hour effects.

The ILO’s 2022 report documents over 48 working hours for more than a third of workers worldwide, but under 35 hours for around a fifth. These global figures do not show that every person in a poor country works more than you. Unemployment, seasonal work, informal employment and care work require separate measures. ILO, Working Time and Work-Life Balance Around the World (2022) · The family in Nepal.

Profiles come from Gapminder’s Dollar Street and were accessed on 13 September 2026. They are not invented families, national averages or testimonies gathered by HowImRich. Their circumstances are those described during Dollar Street’s visit, not household budgets updated to 2026.

Dollar Street estimates available consumption per equivalent adult, including home-produced goods where possible. The site compares this estimate with your reported net income divided by the modified OECD scale. These are different measures: the ratio indicates the order of magnitude of economic opportunities, not an exact comparison of income or net assets.

Dollar Street documentation uses 2011 purchasing-power-parity dollars. To express them in euros at Italian living costs, we use the 2011 Italian consumption factor, 0.819504, from the World Bank series currently available, and the ratio between the Eurostat index 2026-08 (102.7) and the 2011 average. PPP series revisions and uncertainty in household estimates limit precision: these are neither currency conversions nor updates to these families’ incomes.

Bar lengths are proportional to amounts on the same scale. The multiplier divides your equivalent resources by the family’s euro estimate. We do not estimate savings, net assets, health, happiness or financial independence absent from the sources. Water and firewood hours are documented household tasks, not individual free time.

Dollar Street methodology · World Bank factor · Eurostat prices 2011 · Photo licence

The essentials basket: an indicative index

This comparison uses a monetary basic-needs reference, not observed prices for an identical product list in the three countries. We use 1.90 international dollars a day at 2011 prices, the World Bank’s historical extreme-poverty reference, multiplied by 365/12. The 2011 base matches Dollar Street. The reference includes food, clothing and shelter needs; it does not guarantee a healthy diet, adequate services or a dignified life in every setting.

For this illustrative index, we apply the monthly budget to one equivalent adult unit: both equivalent amounts already compared are divided by the same budget, expressed in euros with the same PPP and price factor. Bars show how many times that budget is covered; 0.5 means half and 2 means twice. This is not an official poverty measure: the World Bank threshold is per person, while Dollar Street uses equivalent adults. We estimate neither how many people can be supported nor quantities of goods that can be bought or donated. The index restates the previous financial comparison; it is not an independent check using local food or rent prices.

Since June 2025, the official international threshold is 3 dollars at 2021 PPP prices: it must not be substituted directly into calculations using 2011 PPP data. Historical reference and basic needs · World Bank 2025 update.

The donor’s budget

The donation adds a fixed expense every month, even with no income, with no inflation adjustment or assumed tax benefits. The annual total is the monthly amount multiplied by 12, not a forecast of actual payments.

The new expense changes the Money component of the index. The optional satisfaction answer is a personal feeling, not a proven benefit: 0 leaves the starting value unchanged; 10 fills the gap to 10/10. The other three answers remain unchanged.

Four examples of support

Official sources accessed on 13 September 2026. Each scene hypothetically assigns the whole monthly amount to one example: the four effects are alternatives, not cumulative. The displayed value is chosen amount / reference amount × published quantity. Scaling to other amounts is an illustrative HowImRich extrapolation, not a charity quote; a fraction indicates a share of support, not a partial delivery. The circle tracks scrolling through each example; the number shows the quantity equivalent to your donation. The examples do not compare organisations’ efficiency.

UNICEF: equivalent water-treatment tablets, one per litre, not a water supply. Azione Contro la Fame: €12 monthly reference for four days of therapeutic milk and medicines; equivalent days are neither a prescription nor a recovery forecast. CESVI: ongoing €10 monthly reference supporting a child’s daily meal, kept as a monthly contribution without inventing an exact delivered-meal count. COOPI: one-off €60 food-bag example for a large family in Italy, applied to one month’s amount without assuming unpublished duration or contents.

Actual allocation depends on charities’ needs and programmes. Benefits for a particular family are not guaranteed; these are not cash transfers to Dollar Street families. We infer no income, health or saved work hours from the quantities shown. Links lead to official sites without transmitting profile data or the chosen amount. Quantities remain tied to a single month, not automatically multiplied by twelve.

Data checked on 2026-09-12. No global net asset percentile is calculated in this version. Answers remain only in this tab’s memory to recover the journey after reloading; they are not sent to the server. No bank connection.

The initial language uses the country indicated by your connection, or your browser language. You can change it at any time: a cookie remembers only your chosen language, not your answers.

HowImRich is independent of Gapminder. Photos and stories imply no endorsement of this site or the charities shown. Donations fund selected charities’ programmes, not these three families directly; we promise no number of meals, days of support or other results for any specific amount.

Logos identify the charities cited and link to their official sites. They do not imply partnership or endorsement of HowImRich.