Three homes on Dollar Street, one from each IMF group, all showing the same thing:

Pets

in a random LIDC, EDC and AC

Each button opens that category on Dollar Street for that country in a new tab. If Dollar Street shows the whole world instead, choose the country from its “in The World” menu.

Choose the category

The page starts on a random category. Pick one here to fix it; the countries stay the same.

Choose the countries

Leave these on “Random” or pick a specific country for any group. Only countries that are on the OCR list and have homes on Dollar Street are included.

Talk about it

Once you’ve looked at all three homes:

  1. What is the same in all three homes? What is different?
  2. Was anything different from what you predicted? Why do you think you expected what you did?
  3. Look along the street at homes on a similar income in other countries. Does income or country seem to tell you more about how a family lives?
  4. Every country has rich and poor families. Would a different family in the same country look very different?
  5. What does this category tell us about access to money, services or opportunities, and who has the power to change that?

What the three groups mean

These groups come from the IMF classification used by OCR.

LIDC

Low-income developing countries: the lowest national incomes, often with limited infrastructure and heavy reliance on farming or raw materials.

EDC

Emerging and developing countries: middle-income economies that are growing and industrialising, often with big gaps between rich and poor.

AC

Advanced countries: high national incomes, well-developed services and a large share of jobs in services and technology.