iPhone 14: here’s how long you’ll have to work to pay for the smartphone

Each year, researchers calculate the number of hours of work needed to buy the latest iPhone. In 2023, it is in Nigeria that the smartphone is the most expensive in terms of time. In France, the latter costs the equivalent of 3.56% of the average annual salary.

An iPhone is expensive. Nobody will say the contrary and, if we also find today prices to make the bankers whitewash in the competition, the Apple smartphone has always dragged a reputation as a luxury product – to the point that the firm has been thinking for years to the possibility of offering a monthly subscription in order to be able to pay for it.

However, the expense is not the same for everyone. Indeed, the iPhone is for example much more luxurious in more modest countries than in the West. A point underlined each year by studies which calculate the share of the annual salary that the latest iPhone costs in each country and, in fact, the working time necessary to afford it.

You have to work more than 9 days to afford the iPhone 14

Last year, for example, we learned that you had to work more than 775 hours in the Philippines to be able to afford an iPhone 13. Rebelote this year with the iPhone 14 therefore, although the ranking has changed a lot this year. Indeed, according to data analyzed by CompareDial, it is in Nigeria that Apple’s latest flagship is the most expensive. To afford it, you have to amputate 69% of the country’s average annual salary.

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The rest of the top 5 is made up of relatively small countries, namely thee Kenya (63.3%), Bangladesh (59%), Egypt (50%) and Tunisia (48.57%). And France in all this? France is more in the green part of the graph, although other countries are doing better. In fact, on average, it is necessary to pay 3.56% of his annual salary to afford the latest apple smartphone.

As CompareDial notes, this corresponds to 9.26 working days, 8 hours a day. Something to put into perspective when validating the basket.