Have you ever wondered how many working days a resident of different countries has to work before they can afford a new car? iPhone 17 Pro? This question shows the huge global differences in purchasing power – while in some countries it takes just a few days, in others it takes months of work. According to a comprehensive iPhone Affordability Index 2025, which compares the number of eight-hour work shifts needed to buy an iPhone 17 Pro for the average wage in a given country, the world is a very inconsistent place. The most affordable is iPhone logically in countries with high wages. In Luxembourg and SwitzerlandcarIt takes an average of just 3 working days to earn a model 17 ProThis country with high salaries holds the world's top spot together with Luxembourg. In the USA, the situation is still relatively good, the average employee there buys iPhone in approximately 4 days of work. Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands or Norway are at a similar level.
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In typical European economies, such as Germany or Canada, it takes about 5 working days for the average person to earn this technological peak. In the Czech Republic, according to the same index, it takes about 12 days. That's more than double the US and large Western European economies.
In Japan and other developed countries, iPhone 17 Pro buys somewhere between 5-7 days of work, which reflects relatively high wages, but also equipment prices and the cost of living. In Slovakia, this is significantly more than in neighboring Germany - the average earning rate there means that for a new iPhone people often have to work for tens of days, which corresponds to poorly available statistics iPhone Affordability Index.
Countries outside the richest economies show extreme contrasts. In Poland, it takes about 17 working days, in Portugal around 24, and in the Hungarian economy somewhere around 27 working days. In some economies, it is even more dramatically. In India, it costs iPhone by the same calculations, up to 160 working days, the equivalent of more than eight months of regular full-time work – and it shows how deep the differences in purchasing power can be between rich and developing markets. The Philippines, Vietnam or Turkey are in the hundreds of working days before a worker there can save up for iPhone 17 Pro. Summary of approximate business days required for purchase iPhone 17 Pro (256GB) according to iPhone Affordability Index:
- Luxembourg – 3 days
- Seamcarsko -3 to 4 days
- USA – 4 days
- Belgium, Denmark, Netherlands, Norway – 4 days
- Germany – 5 days
- Japan – 5 to 7 days
- Canada – 5 days
- Czech Republic -12 days
- Poland – 17 days
- Portugal – 24 days
- Slovakia – 24,3 days
- Hungary – 27 days
- India -60 days
- Philippines, Vietnam, Turkey - hundreds of days
Such differences show that iPhone is not only a technological product, but also a measure of economic inequality. In some parts of the world, premium iPhone actually achievable within one working week, while in others it means an investment approaching annual savings.
And in other words: iPhone It is the same product for the whole world, but its availability is completely different depending on where you live.
Well, that's a success 37 years after the stuffed animal Czech Republic 12 days 😀😀😀
It's interesting how some people keep saying that we live in poverty here. :-) I guess the constant comparison with people on Insta who sell their high lifestyle doesn't lead to anything good.
You are either blind or unable to understand the text... 12 days seems like an okay time to earn money for a consumer device like a phone, even if it is from Applu? They work harder here than in Germany, you have them almost behind the house and people here make more than once as much for such crap! It's a shame and everyone should try to change it with their demands for pay for their quality work. I worked in Germany for a few years so I know what I'm talking about, it's not about efficiency, but the ability to ask for more money and keeping those companies slightly in check from below by the employeesancOh, unions...they are very strong in Germany. Here, after the coup, the naive Czech idiots were talked out of it by Western bosses, how bad it was...smartly...people took out mortgages at the same time and modern, high-quality and cheap "slaves" were created here...that makes it very difficult to grow.
There is more work, less pay, and the only phone available is iPhone. Sure. Typical scolding mostly from the laziest people who consider working hard to be getting up early, putting in the work at 2 and only doing what is necessary minimum, but then stand in the first place for the addition of wages, which they still call salary. (Pro(Well, "to educate" is also a dirty word here.) Doesn't that sound familiar to you? ;)