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    Average in the context of wealthy industrialized nations, but globally not even close to median. I went with median over average as well because there are far more impoverished people globally than there are wealthy, and on the other end the wealthy are often wealth hoarding at an insane rate. Median values help minimize the impact of extreme outliers