Brazil · Income · 2024 data
Am I rich in Brazil?
Enter your household income after tax. See your percentile — and what it actually means.
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Data: IBGE — PNAD Contínua, Rendimento de todas as fontes 2024, Tabela 7438: Limites superiores das classes de percentual das pessoas em ordem crescente de rendimento domiciliar per capita (annualised by ×12) · income year 2024, survey wave 2024
Income distribution in Brazil
Each bar is a slice of Brazil households. The cyan marker shows where you sit; the threshold flags below mark the median, top 10% and top 1%.
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What the numbers actually say
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To join the top 10%, earn about 3.1× the median.
About 3.1× the typical household in Brazil.
60% of Brazil lives between R$ 7.464 and R$ 31.320.
If you're in this band, you're 'normal' — by the data.
The top 1% earn 10.2× the typical household.
It's a gulf, not a gap.
Cross R$ 72.492 and you've outearned 95% of Brazil.
The top 5% starts here.
The average (R$ 24.240) sits well above the median.
A few very high earners pull the mean up — the median is the truer middle.
A top-10% household earns 10.0× the bottom 10%.
The full spread of Brazil, in one number.
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