Wealth of Country using Big Mac Index

I haven't posted for awhile as have been concentrating on Family obligations and buying physical Silver. After a recent discussion about values of currencies, I was interested in working which is the best currency and country to live in.

As living in Australia and being able  to buy four large chickens for less then one hours work at minimum salary so I thought it would be hard to top Australia. So was thinking how could I do this. I have always liked the Big Mac index to compare currencies against each other but though it might be better if we use the minimum wages of the country and see how many big macs they could buy using the minimum wage for one week.

Below is a rough guide I got based on information from wiki.

Country	Minimum Per Week	Price Big Mac	No Big Macs per week
Russia	1082.5	75	14
Brazil	155.5	9.5	16
Argentina	375	20	19
India	2000	84	24
Greece	167	3.44	49
Hong Kong	895	15.1	59
US	275.5	4.07	68
Mexico	2183.48	32	68
Japan	24282	320	76
Canada	389.5	4.73	82
Germany	319.25	3.44	93
UK	231.04	2.39	97
New Zealand	494	5.1	97
France	335.9425	3.44	98
Sweden	345.5	3.44	100
Australia	570	4.56	125
Denmark	462.5	3.44	134

I was surprised at Denmark having highest total until reading about them, which states that they are the most equally distributed in terms of income. So it makes sense that the poorest in Denmark would be able to eat a lot of big macs as their weekly salary wouldn't be far off from the Rich in Denmark.

I like this type of analysis as if we use average salaries then the income inequalities of places like USA have to much influence on the stats so when we focus on the minimum salary, it gives a better understanding of a significant number of people and the general health of country in my opinion.

I didn't put in poor countries like e.g South africa total is less the then three big macs in a week. Also Fiji is around 20 which I am happy about. If we had a comparison of buying a coconuts then Fiji would do better but that's why Big Mac index is one of most efficient comparison tools that I know off.

The biggest surprise to me was Russia, Brazil and Canada.For some reason I thought Canada would be better.

Anyway stats confirmed what am seeing on the ground and am very happy to be in Australia while we wait out the Financial reset and still don't have a good feeling on how things will turn out when this happens.  For me the biggest factor on how bad things will be is the price of oil in local currencies.