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Form 6-K for the quarter ended 30 September 2026; World Bank GNI per capita, Atlas method (NY.GNP.PCAP.CD); European Central Bank euro reference rate","source_url":"https:\/\/api.worldbank.org\/v2\/country\/all\/indicator\/NY.GNP.PCAP.CD?format=json","source_type":"computed","method":"annual_arpu_usd is fixed across every row at 66.93: Spotify's reported global Premium ARPU for the quarter ended 30 September 2026 (EUR 4.95\/month, Form 6-K accession 0001628280-26-066889), annualised and converted at the European Central Bank euro reference rate for 4 November 2026 (1.1267 USD\/EUR). gni_per_capita_usd is the most recent non-empty World Bank indicator NY.GNP.PCAP.CD value per country, queried directly against the World Bank API for all 54 UN-recognised African states (not the 25-market subset this desk otherwise tracks for its chart panel), reference year printed per row; South Sudan and Eritrea carry older reference years (2015 and 2011) because the World Bank has no more recent non-empty reading for either. arpu_share_of_gni_pct is annual_arpu_usd over gni_per_capita_usd, rounded to two decimal places for display. burden_times_seychelles is gni_per_capita_usd for Seychelles (19,200, the highest in the set and therefore the lowest affordability burden) divided by that row's own gni_per_capita_usd; because annual_arpu_usd is identical in every row, this ratio is mathematically exact from the unrounded GNI figures and is not computed from the rounded percentage column, which would compound the two per cent figures' own rounding. 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