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.
Each figure is a mean amount, so if wages seem a little high, you can probably blame disproportionally high salaries among each country's wealthiest. To put things in perspective, the U.S. has a mean monthly income of $4,240 according to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. Take a look at which Europeans are on a par with that. We've also included each nation's minimum wage, courtesy of the Federation of European Employees.