National Income Percentile Calculator
All income sources (employment, self-employment, and similar) — see where your total annual income ranks across your country's full population, using decile data.
Derived figures
- Income percentiles by country — derived from World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) (Per-country most recent PIP survey (2017-2025)) using Decile thresholds fitted with a lognormal to PIP's published median and Gini. PIP publishes decile shares but no percentile thresholds, so these are our derivation from real inputs, not PIP's own percentile table.
How this is calculated
Your income is compared against decile thresholds for your country, interpolated in log-income space to account for the right-skewed shape of income distributions. The result shows your percentile, decile, quintile, position relative to the national median, and an overall income class.
This national comparison is a companion to the Global Income Percentile calculator, which ranks the same income against the entire world's population rather than just your own country — useful for seeing both how you compare locally and how that compares internationally. To see the same figure alongside your salary as a multiple of the country's average and minimum wage, see the National Salary Percentile calculator.
Frequently asked questions
- How is my percentile calculated?
- Your income is interpolated against decile thresholds for your country — in log-income space, since income distributions are right-skewed and a straight-line interpolation would badly overstate where lower incomes rank.
- What's the difference between decile and quintile?
- Decile splits the population into 10 equal groups (1st = bottom 10%, 10th = top 10%); quintile splits into 5 groups (1st = bottom 20%, 5th = top 20%).
- Is this official government data?
- No — it interpolates between decile thresholds rather than querying a national statistics office, so treat the result as an estimate.
- What does national income percentile mean?
- Your national income percentile shows what share of your own country's population earns less than you — a percentile of 75 means you earn more than roughly 75% of people in that country.
- How does this differ from the global income percentile?
- This tool ranks your income only against your own country's distribution. The Global Income Percentile calculator instead ranks you against the entire world's population in PPP terms — the same income can sit at very different percentiles nationally versus globally.
- Does this use gross or net income?
- Gross income — before income tax and social contributions. This matches how most published national income distribution statistics are reported, keeping the comparison consistent regardless of your country's specific tax system.
- What counts as income for this calculation?
- Total annual income before tax from all regular sources — employment income, self-employment income, and similar recurring income. Both this tool and the National Salary Percentile calculator rank you against the same per-capita household welfare distribution, so neither offers a wage-only comparison; that page adds average-wage and minimum-wage multiples on top.