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What is the world's average salary?

If there were perfect income equality worldwide, what would we all earn? Tim Harford answers this question, and he finds out the world's average wage. Plus: which are the world's top militaries?

If there were perfect income equality worldwide so that everybody earned the same amount of money, how much would we each earn?

And what is the average employee wage across the world?

Tim Harford answers both these questions.

And he attempts to rank the world's top military forces.

(Image: Foreign currency notes. Credit: AFP/Getty Images)

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10 minutes

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Sun 25 Mar 2012 03:50GMT

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  • Sat 24 Mar 2012 18:50GMT
  • Sat 24 Mar 2012 23:50GMT
  • Sun 25 Mar 2012 03:50GMT

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