36%
Percentage of households in a survey of 19 Indigenous and local communities worldwide that reported having no cash income at all. The survey, based on replies from 2,966 people in these small-scale societies, was part of a study designed to assess local knowledge of the impacts of climate change.
$1,559
Average estimated annual cash income per person in the surveyed sites that reported having cash income, measured in U.S. dollars. Similar studies show that such communities average the equivalent of about $1,862 per person per year from products derived from crops, livestock, forests, and other environmental assets.
6.8
Average life satisfaction scores of the surveyed societies based on a 10-point scale. That is equivalent to scores found by the World Values Survey in Canada, Singapore, and the United States, and by the Gallup World Poll in France and Belgium. Four of the sites reported average scores of higher than 8, typical of wealthy Scandinavian countries in other polls.
