Bloom store in Accokeek, Maryland. Bloom was a chain of mid-grade North American grocery stores operated by Food Lion, originally established in 2004. The parent company of Food Lion, The Delhaize Group, announced in January 2012 that it was discontinuing the Bloom brand.
That gives you the answer-the world's average salary is $1,480 (Â£928) a month, which is just less than $18,000 (Â£11,291) a year. But these dollars are not normal US dollars. The economists use specially adjusted exchange rates-the average salary is calculated in Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) dollars.
B. $7,000 is correct. The world's average income - total world income divided by total number of people - is about $7,000. Still, only about 19 percent of the world's population lives in countries with per capita incomes at least this high. Countries with an average income near $7,000 include Mexico, Chile, and Latvia.