TV licences compared across the world

The TV licence fee in the UK is £145.50: but how does that compare with the rest of the world?

We took licence fee prices from Wikipedia, and then adjusted them based on each country's average wage.

And here's the wage adjusted list, assuming everyone's earning the same average wage as the UK...

1. Austria: £317.00
2. Norway: £287.48
3. Switzerland: £284.90
4. Sweden: £239.88
5. Japan: £215.28
6. Germany: £204.45
7. UK: £145.50
8. Israel: £131.59
9. France: £130.95
10. Italy: £129.07
11. Czech Republic: £122.60
12. Ireland: £119.98
13. Poland: £88.84
14. Slovakia: £83.96
15. Greece: £74.70

CAUTION:

1. Not all public broadcasters offer similar numbers of services, nor quality.
2. Many public broadcasters in this list (for example Austria's ORF) also take advertising revenue.
3. All countries are different sizes. These wage-adjusted figures make no further adjustment for population sizes.
4. These figures are for TV *and* radio licences (combined where required), and assuming reception of satellite television (for Japan).
5. Some of these licence fees do not fund 100% of their broadcaster's activities.
6. This isn't a very serious list and is just for fun. The BBC is very good value though.