Rank order of hourly wage | Rank order of factory hours of work needed to pay for safety devices | ||||
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Car seat | Booster seat | Bicycle helmet | Smoke alarm | ||
N/A, not available. | |||||
Wages are ranked from highest to lowest, hours of factory work needed to pay for safety devices from lowest to highest. Equal ranks represent ties. | |||||
Wage <$3.00/hour | |||||
Albania | 18 | 16 | N/A | 18 | 12 |
Thailand | 17 | 18 | 15 | 13 | N/A |
Vietnam | 16 | 17 | 14 | 17 | 13 |
Venezuela | 15 | 15 | N/A | 16 | N/A |
Philippines | 14 | 13 | 12 | 15 | 11 |
China | 13 | 14 | 16 | 12 | 14 |
Wage $3.00–$9.99/hour | |||||
South Africa | 12 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 9 |
Brazil | 11 | 12 | 13 | 13 | N/A |
New Zealand | 9 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 6 |
South Korea | 9 | 11 | 11 | 8 | N/A |
Wage >$10.00/hour | |||||
Canada | 8 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 5 |
Israel | 7 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 8 |
Australia | 6 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 1 |
United Kingdom | 5 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 3 |
Austria | 4 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
United States | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
Japan | 2 | 8 | 2 | 10 | 10 |
Germany | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 |