What the person in the middle lives on
Median income per person per month in each country, adjusted for local prices. Half the population lives on less than this amount and half on more. Select a country for its figure.
Every country, highest to lowest
Dollars per person per month, followed by the share of the world’s population living in countries at or below that level. Includes small states that are too small to show on the map.
About these numbers
Figures come from the World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform, as tabulated on Wikipedia’s “Median income” page in 2026. The source reports daily amounts, converted here to monthly ones by multiplying by 365/12. They are in 2021 international dollars, which adjust for differences in the cost of living between countries.
Richer countries mostly report income after taxes and transfers. Most lower-income countries report consumption instead, so comparisons across the two groups are approximate. Each country shows its most recent survey, and survey years range from 2017 to 2025.
The population percentage adds up the 2024 populations of every country at or below a given median, so it reaches 100% at the highest one. It counts only the countries listed here, which hold about 93% of the world’s people, and it ranks whole countries by their median rather than ranking individual people.
Source: World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform. Population from World Bank World Development Indicators. Country outlines from Natural Earth.