- A project from the Gapminder Foundation photographs families around the world to give a glimpse into their lives.
- This slideshow contains families who make $45 a month to those making more than $3,000 a month.
If you want to understand the world, look at how people live. Toys are a good place to start.
Dollar Street, a project from the Gapminder Foundation, went into hundreds of homes at different income levels around the world to photograph people’s possessions. The photographs provide an intimate glimpse into the lives of hundreds of families. The difference in income is striking. Yet there are a number of similarities between people of vastly different income levels, too.
"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."
Below, check out some favorite toys around the world.
Gus Lubin contributed to a previous version of this story.
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In an Indian home living on $29/month per adult, the favorite toy is a plastic bottle.
In an Ivorian home (Cote d'Ivoire) living on $61/month per adult, the favorite toy is a shoe.
In a Burundian home living on $29/month per adult, the favorite toy is dried maize.
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