Enter your income and country and we’ll adjust it for what money actually buys (purchasing power) to show where you rank among everyone on Earth.
That puts you in the global top 2.1%
About 167.4M people earn more than you
We convert your income to international dollars using your country’s purchasing-power-parity (PPP) factor, divide by the people in your household, and express it per day. That makes incomes comparable across countries with very different price levels.
We then read the share of the world living on less than that, using the World Bank’s global distribution and its $2.15, $3.65 and $6.85 (2017 PPP) poverty lines as anchors. The result is a rough but eye-opening estimate.
A dollar buys far more in some countries than others. PPP adjustment compares real living standards rather than raw exchange-rate amounts.
Income usually supports a whole household, so a per-person figure is the fairest way to compare living standards across families.
It is a deliberately rough estimate. PPP factors and the global distribution are rounded recent figures, and currencies move — treat the percentile as a ballpark, not a precise rank.
The global income distribution: the share of the world poorer than a given daily income. Your position is marked at 97.9%.
| Where you land on the global income curve | Where you land on the global income curve |
|---|---|
| $1.00 | 2% |
| $2.15 | 9% |
| $3.65 | 24% |
| $6.85 | 47% |
| $10.00 | 60% |
| $15.00 | 71% |
| $20.00 | 78% |
| $30.00 | 86% |
| $50.00 | 92% |
| $75.00 | 95% |
| $100.00 | 97% |
| $200.00 | 99% |
| $500.00 | 100% |
This calculator shows where your annual income falls on the global distribution — what share of the world's roughly 8 billion people earn less than you. It adjusts for purchasing-power parity (PPP) so a rupee in India and a dollar in the United States are placed on the same scale. Enter your household income, your country, and how many people share it, and you will instantly see your global percentile.
The headline figure is the percentage of the world population you out-earn on a per-person, per-day PPP basis. Below it, the line chart plots the global income distribution on a logarithmic X axis: because incomes span three orders of magnitude (from under 2 per day to over 200 per day), a log scale is the only way to show the full curve without compressing the bottom 90% of humanity into a thin sliver at the left edge. A solid vertical line marks your daily income, a dashed line marks the World Bank extreme-poverty threshold (2.15 per day), and a second dashed line marks the approximate global median (7.50 per day). All figures are model estimates based on survey data and rounded PPP conversion factors — treat them as directional, not precise.
Annual income of 50,000 in the United States (USD, PPP factor 1.0), single-person household.
Per-capita daily PPP income: 136.99. You out-earn roughly 97.9% of the world, placing you in the top 2.1%. About 167 million people globally earn more than you do.
Purchasing-power parity converts local currencies into a common international dollar that buys the same basket of goods everywhere. Without it, a modest salary in a low-cost country would look tiny compared to the same purchasing power in a high-cost country. PPP adjustment is how economists compare living standards fairly across nations.
The global distribution is measured on a per-person basis. If you earn 60,000 per year but share it with three others, each person effectively lives on 15,000 — so your per-capita figure is what determines your place on the global curve.
Global daily incomes range from less than 1 to well over 500 in PPP terms — a 500-fold spread. A linear axis would crush nearly all of humanity into the left-hand edge of the chart. A log scale spaces the data evenly across orders of magnitude so you can see the shape of the distribution clearly.
The distribution anchors come from World Bank PIP survey data and OWID research; PPP conversion factors are approximate recent World Bank values. The result is a rough estimate intended for broad context, not a precise statistical ranking. Volatile-currency countries such as Egypt, Turkey, and Russia use rounded factors that may diverge from the current market rate.
Not necessarily. Global income inequality is large enough that a median income in a high-income country places you in the top 10 to 20 percent worldwide, even if you feel financially average at home. The calculator measures your standing relative to the entire world population, not your local cost of living.
The calculation proceeds in three steps. First, the raw annual income is divided by the country's PPP conversion factor (local currency units per 2017 international dollar, sourced from the World Bank private-consumption series) to produce an annual income in international dollars. Second, that figure is divided by household size and then by 365 to yield a daily per-capita PPP income. Third, the daily figure is placed on a piecewise distribution anchored on the World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform poverty lines — 2.15, 3.65, and 6.85 per day in 2017 PPP dollars — extended upward using OWID global income distribution research. Log-linear interpolation between anchors maps the daily income to a cumulative population share, which is the headline percentile. The top percentage is the complement (100 minus that share), and the count of people richer is derived by applying the top percentage to a world population of 8 billion.
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