Work hours to buy…

Work hours to buy Nintendo Switch 2, ranked by country

For each country below, this is how many hours someone earning the local median wage must work to afford Nintendo Switch 2. 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 11 hours) and most demanding in Burundi (about 3,846 hours) across 164 countries with sourced wage data.

#	Country	Work hours
1	Switzerland	11
2	Luxembourg	13
3	Denmark	15
4	Iceland	15
5	Norway	16
6	Belgium	16
7	United Arab Emirates *	17
8	United States of America	19
9	Netherlands	19
10	Austria	21
11	Finland	21
12	Canada	21
13	Sweden	22
14	New Zealand	23
15	United Kingdom	23
16	Ireland	24
17	Australia	25
18	Germany	25
19	Singapore	26
20	Qatar *	27
21	Israel	30
22	Japan	30
23	Hong Kong	31
24	Iran *	32
25	Slovenia	34
26	Spain	36
27	Czechia	38
28	Estonia	41
29	France	41
30	Cyprus	44
31	New Caledonia	45
32	Croatia	46
33	Saudi Arabia *	47
34	Kuwait *	50
35	South Korea	50
36	Greenland *	51
37	Puerto Rico	51
38	Lithuania	52
39	The Bahamas	52
40	Latvia	52
41	Poland	56
42	Brunei *	57
43	Italy	58
44	Romania	64
45	Slovakia	75
46	Portugal	75
47	Hungary	77
48	Oman *	81
49	Republic of Serbia	85
50	Bulgaria	85
51	Mauritania	87
52	Uruguay	87
53	Bosnia and Herzegovina	90
54	Palestine	95
55	Russia *	99
56	Greece	99
57	Costa Rica	101
58	Malaysia *	102
59	Montenegro *	107
60	Trinidad and Tobago	110
61	Chile	121
62	Jamaica *	126
63	Panama *	130
64	Turkey	142
65	Argentina	143
66	China *	152
67	North Macedonia *	156
68	Lebanon	160
69	Albania *	167
70	Belize	169
71	Belarus *	169
72	Mexico	183
73	Ecuador	184
74	Djibouti	193
75	Brazil	197
76	Fiji	202
77	Peru	203
78	Kosovo *	204
79	Paraguay	206
80	Moldova	207
81	Mongolia	220
82	Colombia	221
83	Dominican Republic	222
84	Libya *	224
85	Uzbekistan *	229
86	Bolivia	231
87	El Salvador	240
88	Azerbaijan *	241
89	Kazakhstan *	244
90	Jordan	246
91	Thailand	251
92	Guyana	258
93	Vanuatu *	264
94	Ukraine *	264
95	Guatemala	265
96	Morocco *	278
97	Iraq *	281
98	Georgia	285
99	Honduras	290
100	Gabon *	299
101	Suriname	300
102	Nicaragua *	319
103	Philippines	334
104	Algeria *	337
105	South Africa	368
106	East Timor	371
107	Equatorial Guinea *	422
108	Cambodia	427
109	Haiti *	432
110	Bhutan	454
111	Kyrgyzstan *	465
112	Tunisia	472
113	Namibia	478
114	Guinea	498
115	Solomon Islands *	498
116	Armenia	507
117	Tajikistan *	509
118	eSwatini	527
119	Ivory Coast	544
120	Botswana	564
121	Papua New Guinea *	576
122	Nepal	596
123	Zimbabwe *	624
124	Indonesia	626
125	Sudan	638
126	Cameroon *	657
127	Laos	658
128	Ghana	674
129	Chad	720
130	Eritrea *	721
131	Senegal	739
132	Afghanistan	748
133	Mali	767
134	India	770
135	Sri Lanka	776
136	Myanmar	799
137	Liberia	832
138	Syria *	867
139	Mozambique	870
140	Benin	899
141	Guinea-Bissau	901
142	Bangladesh	940
143	Zambia	958
144	Egypt	963
145	Democratic Republic of the Congo	973
146	United Republic of Tanzania	1,000
147	Togo	1,039
148	Niger	1,082
149	Pakistan	1,114
150	Republic of the Congo *	1,124
151	Malawi *	1,147
152	Burkina Faso	1,165
153	Ethiopia	1,222
154	Sierra Leone *	1,263
155	Lesotho	1,374
156	Gambia	1,404
157	Central African Republic *	1,433
158	Angola	1,506
159	Uganda	1,567
160	Rwanda	1,645
161	Kenya	1,887
162	Madagascar	1,887
163	Nigeria	2,294
164	Burundi	3,846

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.