🌐 Global·Household income·World Bank PIP 2022
How rich are you compared to the rest of the world?
Type your income. We tell you your global percentile, locate it on the World Bank's published income curve, and show which countries' typical households earn more or less.
I live in , where I earn $PPP per year.
Your rank · among 8.0 billion people
TOP 49%
Ahead of 4.04bn people · 3.96bn earn more
The global income curve
Eight billion people, eleven cut-points.
World Bank PIP publishes the global income distribution at eleven thresholds, plotted below on a log-dollar axis. Your income lands on the curve where the dashed lines cross. The shaded area is everyone you out-earn.
Where United States sits
The anchors of the range.
Median household income spans roughly 36-fold across these 25 countries — and that is after adjusting for purchasing power, not before.
Highest median
🇨🇭Switzerland
$50,462
Your country
🇺🇸United States
$46,000
Lowest median
🇳🇬Nigeria
$1,400
The full ranking
Twenty-five countries, sorted by median income.
Each bar is the country's per-capita median household income in PPP dollars. The chip on the right shows where the country's median sits in the global percentile curve.
01
🇨🇭
Switzerland
$50,462
top 5%
02
🇺🇸
United States
$46,000
top 6%
03
🇦🇺
Australia
$34,000
top 9%
04
🇨🇦
Canada
$33,000
top 9%
05
🇩🇪
Germany
$29,000
top 11%
06
🇬🇧
United Kingdom
$27,500
top 12%
07
🇫🇷
France
$25,557
top 13%
08
🇯🇵
Japan
$22,000
top 15%
09
🇰🇷
South Korea
$21,000
top 16%
10
🇮🇹
Italy
$19,500
top 17%
11
🇪🇸
Spain
$18,500
top 18%
12
🇵🇱
Poland
$16,000
top 20%
13
🇹🇷
Turkey
$11,000
top 27%
14
🇨🇳
China
$9,500
top 29%
15
🇹🇭
Thailand
$7,500
top 34%
16
🇧🇷
Brazil
$6,000
top 39%
17
🇲🇽
Mexico
$5,500
top 41%
18
🇮🇩
Indonesia
$4,600
top 46%
19
🇻🇳
Vietnam
$4,200
top 48%
20
🇪🇬
Egypt
$4,100
top 49%
21
🇵🇭
Philippines
$3,800
top 51%
22
🇿🇦
South Africa
$3,200
top 58%
23
🇮🇳
India
$2,800
top 63%
24
🇵🇰
Pakistan
$1,800
top 75%
25
🇳🇬
Nigeria
$1,400
top 81%
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Three numbers worth the asterisk
What the rankings hide.
The pull
The mean is 3.5× the median.
Global median income is $3,920 PPP. Global mean income is $13,800. The top of the curve drags the average up by a factor of 3.5; that asymmetry is the single best signal of how skewed the world is.
National vs global
Even the median household in France sits in the global top 13%.
A typical French household at $25,557 PPP earns more than 87% of all people on Earth. Between-country inequality is far larger than within-country inequality; once you live in a rich country, your "national average" already ranks high globally.
The spread
Switzerland earns 36× Nigeria.
Median household in Switzerland: $50,462 PPP — global top 5.0%. Median household in Nigeria: $1,400 PPP — global top 81%. A 36-fold gap, even after adjusting for what each dollar actually buys.
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Frequently asked
If you earn more than $31,500 per year in purchasing power terms, you're in the global top 10%. Earn more than $50,000 and you're in the top 5%. Above $127,000 puts you in the global top 1%. For context, the median income in the United States (~$46,000) already places Americans in roughly the top 8% of the world.
The global median per-capita income is approximately $3,920 per year in purchasing power terms (PPP international dollars, 2022 data). This means that half of all people on Earth live on less than about $10.70 per day. Source: World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform.
PPP adjusts for the fact that prices differ dramatically across countries. A dollar in India buys far more than a dollar in Switzerland. When you enter your income in your local currency, we convert it to 'international dollars' — a standardized unit that reflects what your money can actually buy. This makes the global comparison fair: we're comparing living standards, not exchange rates.
Because income inequality between countries is enormous. A household earning the median income in France ($25,557 PPP) is already in the global top 12%. Even someone at the 20th percentile in Switzerland earns more than 80% of the world. Global inequality dwarfs within-country inequality.
The global distribution is constructed from nationally representative household surveys covering 170+ countries, weighted by population. It captures approximately 97% of the world's population. The data comes from the World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform, the most authoritative source for global income comparisons.