How Much Food Can You Buy For $5 Around The World?

Here's how much coffee, meat, beer, McDonald's, and more you can buy for $5 in countries around the world. For starters, you can buy a lot of beer for $5 in China.

Here's a list of the foods we looked at:
bananas
coffee
beef
rice
potatoes
eggs
beer

And some of the countries:
Italy
France
Sweden
Ethiopia
USA
UK
China
Japan

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Information for this video came from, in part...
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http://www.census.gov/
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http://www.insee.fr/
http://www.abs.gov.au/
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http://www.ifpri.org/
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/
http://www.csa.gov.et/
http://www.numbeo.com/
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