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"How Rich Am I?" — see where your income ranks in your country and around the world.
Your results are estimated using purchasing-power-adjusted income data.
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You earn more than approximately –% of people worldwide.
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You earn more than approximately –% of people in your country.
Income percentile shows the percentage of people you earn more than.
For example, if you're in the 80th percentile, you earn more than 80% of people.
Learn moreWorld Bank Poverty & Inequality Platform (PIP) percentile distributions.
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An income percentile tells you what share of a population earns less than you. If your income is at the 82nd percentile worldwide, roughly 82% of people in the world live on less income than you do, and about 18% live on more — putting you in the "top 18%". It is a way of turning a raw salary number into a rank that is easy to understand and compare.
Your income is first converted into international dollars using purchasing-power-parity (PPP) conversion factors, so that a salary in rupees, euros, or dollars is compared on the basis of what it can actually buy. That PPP-adjusted amount is then located within a distribution of incomes — a table of 100 income thresholds, one per percentile, derived from household survey data. When your income falls between two thresholds, we interpolate between them to estimate your exact percentile. The same lookup is done twice: once against your country's distribution and once against the global distribution.
The global distribution is not an average of country percentiles. It comes from the World Bank's binned global distribution, which pools the survey-based income distributions of all covered economies, orders the entire world population from poorest to richest, and reads off the income level at each percentile. Your PPP-adjusted income is placed directly into that pooled distribution.
Each covered economy has its own 100-point percentile table from the World Bank's Poverty and Inequality Platform, based on that country's most recent household survey. Your PPP-adjusted income is compared against your country's own table. This is why the two numbers can differ so much: an income that is ordinary in one country can be near the top of the distribution globally, or the other way around.
Purchasing power parity (PPP) adjusts for the fact that a dollar buys different amounts in different countries. Converting incomes with market exchange rates would make people in countries with low price levels look poorer than they really are. PPP conversion expresses every income in "international dollars" with the same purchasing power, which is the standard approach used by the World Bank for global poverty and inequality statistics — and the approach this calculator uses.
Income is what you earn in a period — salary, business income, benefits. Wealth is what you own minus what you owe — savings, property, investments, debt. This tool measures income percentile only. A high income percentile does not necessarily mean high wealth, and "How Rich Am I?" is a curiosity hook, not a financial assessment. Nothing on this page is financial advice.
Survey data measures household income or consumption per person, collected in different years across countries and extrapolated forward; your input is your personal income today. Definitions (gross vs disposable, income vs consumption), survey timing, and PPP revisions all introduce differences. Different calculators use different datasets and definitions, which is why results can vary between tools. Treat the output as a well-founded estimate, not an exact measurement.
Primary source: World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) Percentiles database — 100 income/consumption thresholds per country-year, in 2021 PPP international dollars (license: CC0). Global distribution: World Bank binned global distribution, pooled across all covered economies. Currency conversion: World Bank PPP conversion factors (LCU per international $, private consumption). Population: UN/World Bank population estimates, used only for the "you earn more than ~X people" figures.
Income definition: the underlying surveys measure household disposable income or consumption per capita; entering your personal gross income will typically place you somewhat higher than a strict like-for-like comparison would. Interpolation: log-linear between adjacent percentile thresholds; results are capped at "Top 1%" (and "Top 0.1%" where the data supports it) rather than fabricating precision in the extreme tail. Where a country has no comparable distribution data, we show the worldwide result only and say so — we never invent a country percentile. Full methodology, dataset version and per-country coverage are documented in the dataset metadata shipped with this page.