Here's what life is like for the average family on planet Earth

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Most people on Earth have a decent life: a roof over their head, food and plates to put it on, chairs, toys, pets, and dreams.

That's a takeaway from "Dollar Street," a new project that shows photos of homes at different income levels around the world. Created by the Gapminder Foundation, it is meant to promote understanding about global unity and progress.

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"We tend to think you have the rich, you have the poor, and nothing in between," says Gapminder co-founder Anna Rosling-Rönnlund. "It's rather you have a continuous scale, a very smooth distribution, where most people are actually in the middle."

Another takeaway from the project is that income matters more than nationality.

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"When you look at the certain income and you look on a very everyday item that someone has in their home to solve everyday needs, it's striking to see how similar our lives are," Rosling-Rönnlund says.

So what's life like in the middle? According to Dollar Street, the median home lives on around $250 to $390 per adult per month. Keep reading to see what that looks like.