33-country affordability snapshot
Workdays needed to buy an iPhone 17 Pro
A phone costs less than two weeks of average wages in 21 countries—but stretches beyond 100 workdays in the Philippines and India.
Logarithmic scale · equal spacing means equal multiples21 countriesrequire nine workdays or fewer—less than two standard workweeks.
4 daysputs the United States among the seven most affordable markets shown.
53× gapseparates India’s 160 days from Luxembourg and Switzerland’s three.
Eight-hour workdays required for an average worker to afford the 256GB iPhone 17 Pro. The estimate combines local retail prices, average monthly wages, and average weekly hours, so it does not describe every worker’s experience. Source: Visual Capitalist, based on Tenscope and ILO statistics. Download data.