Work hours to buy…

Work hours to buy Netflix (1 month), ranked by country

For each country below, this is how many hours someone earning the local median wage must work to afford Netflix (1 month). Fewer hours means it is more affordable relative to local pay. Wage figures are real, sourced from the ILO and OECD; the price is the local list price where we have one, otherwise the US price as a reference (both in US dollars).

It is cheapest to earn in Switzerland (about 0.4 hours) and most demanding in Burundi (about 154 hours) across 164 countries with sourced wage data.

#	Country	Work hours
1	Switzerland	0.4
2	Luxembourg	0.5
3	Belgium	0.6
4	Denmark	0.6
5	Canada	0.6
6	Iceland	0.6
7	Norway	0.6
8	Australia	0.7
9	Netherlands	0.7
10	United Arab Emirates *	0.7
11	Japan	0.7
12	Germany	0.7
13	Austria	0.7
14	Finland	0.7
15	United States of America	0.7
16	United Kingdom	0.8
17	Ireland	0.8
18	Sweden	0.9
19	South Korea	0.9
20	New Zealand	0.9
21	Singapore	0.9
22	Qatar *	1.1
23	Israel	1.2
24	Slovenia	1.2
25	France	1.2
26	Spain	1.3
27	Iran *	1.3
28	Hong Kong	1.3
29	Estonia	1.4
30	Czechia	1.5
31	Cyprus	1.5
32	Croatia	1.6
33	New Caledonia	1.8
34	Lithuania	1.8
35	Latvia	1.8
36	Saudi Arabia *	1.9
37	Kuwait *	2.0
38	Italy	2.0
39	Greenland *	2.0
40	Puerto Rico	2.1
41	The Bahamas	2.1
42	Poland	2.3
43	Brunei *	2.3
44	Romania	2.5
45	Slovakia	2.6
46	Portugal	2.6
47	Hungary	3.1
48	Oman *	3.3
49	Republic of Serbia	3.4
50	Bulgaria	3.4
51	Mauritania	3.5
52	Greece	3.5
53	Uruguay	3.5
54	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3.6
55	Palestine	3.8
56	Russia *	4.0
57	Costa Rica	4.0
58	Malaysia *	4.1
59	Montenegro *	4.3
60	Trinidad and Tobago	4.4
61	Chile	4.8
62	Jamaica *	5.0
63	Panama *	5.2
64	Turkey	5.7
65	Argentina	5.7
66	China *	6.1
67	North Macedonia *	6.2
68	Lebanon	6.4
69	Albania *	6.7
70	Belize	6.7
71	Belarus *	6.8
72	Mexico	7.3
73	Ecuador	7.4
74	Djibouti	7.7
75	Brazil	7.9
76	Fiji	8.1
77	India	8.1
78	Peru	8.1
79	Kosovo *	8.2
80	Paraguay	8.2
81	Moldova	8.3
82	Mongolia	8.8
83	Colombia	8.8
84	Dominican Republic	8.9
85	Libya *	9.0
86	Uzbekistan *	9.1
87	Bolivia	9.2
88	El Salvador	9.6
89	Azerbaijan *	9.6
90	Kazakhstan *	9.7
91	Jordan	9.8
92	Thailand	10
93	Guyana	10
94	Vanuatu *	11
95	Ukraine *	11
96	Guatemala	11
97	Morocco *	11
98	Iraq *	11
99	Georgia	11
100	Honduras	12
101	Gabon *	12
102	Suriname	12
103	Nicaragua *	13
104	Philippines	13
105	Algeria *	13
106	South Africa	15
107	East Timor	15
108	Equatorial Guinea *	17
109	Cambodia	17
110	Haiti *	17
111	Bhutan	18
112	Kyrgyzstan *	19
113	Tunisia	19
114	Namibia	19
115	Guinea	20
116	Solomon Islands *	20
117	Armenia	20
118	Tajikistan *	20
119	eSwatini	21
120	Ivory Coast	22
121	Botswana	23
122	Papua New Guinea *	23
123	Nepal	24
124	Zimbabwe *	25
125	Indonesia	25
126	Sudan	25
127	Cameroon *	26
128	Laos	26
129	Ghana	27
130	Chad	29
131	Eritrea *	29
132	Senegal	30
133	Afghanistan	30
134	Mali	31
135	Sri Lanka	31
136	Myanmar	32
137	Liberia	33
138	Syria *	35
139	Mozambique	35
140	Benin	36
141	Guinea-Bissau	36
142	Bangladesh	38
143	Zambia	38
144	Egypt	39
145	Democratic Republic of the Congo	39
146	United Republic of Tanzania	40
147	Togo	42
148	Niger	43
149	Pakistan	45
150	Republic of the Congo *	45
151	Malawi *	46
152	Burkina Faso	47
153	Ethiopia	49
154	Sierra Leone *	50
155	Lesotho	55
156	Gambia	56
157	Central African Republic *	57
158	Angola	60
159	Uganda	63
160	Rwanda	66
161	Kenya	75
162	Madagascar	75
163	Nigeria	92
164	Burundi	154

Work hours = price ÷ the country’s median wage (hourly). The price is the local list price where we have one, otherwise the US price as a reference (both in USD) — it won’t match every local retailer or tax, so treat the numbers as an illustration and check the price where you live.

* Wage is a PIP-calibrated estimate rather than a directly sourced figure.