Enter what your household earns, in your own currency, and see where it sits against the whole planet. Adjusted for purchasing power and household size, using World Bank data. Most people are far higher than they think.
This tool places your household income on the global income distribution, adjusted for household size and purchasing power using World Bank data. Pick your country, enter your yearly household income after tax and your household size, then press See where I rank.
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You do not need any financial knowledge to use this. Here is what it means.
Imagine everyone on Earth lined up from the lowest earner to the highest. This tells you where you stand in that line. "Top 3%" means only 3 out of every 100 people worldwide earn more than you. Most people are surprised how high they rank, because incomes in much of the world are very low.
A given income supports one person far more comfortably than a family of five. So we take your whole household's income and adjust it for how many people it has to cover, which gives a fairer picture of each person's standard of living.
Money buys different amounts in different places, a modest income can afford a comfortable life where prices are low. We use World Bank "purchasing power" data, which measures what money actually buys on the ground, so your rank reflects real living standards worldwide, not just currency conversion. The "in US dollars" line is a simple conversion shown for reference, and we tell you the exact rate used.
These are careful estimates built from global data, meant to give you perspective, not an exact accounting of your finances.
How this is calculated. Your household income is adjusted for household size using the OECD square-root scale (income divided by the square root of the number of people), then converted into 2021 international dollars using World Bank purchasing-power-parity factors, so it reflects what your money actually buys, not just an exchange rate. That figure is placed on the global income distribution from the World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (2024, via Our World in Data), which covers about 97 percent of the world's population. The "at today's exchange rate" line uses live market rates and is shown for reference only; the ranking itself uses purchasing power. All figures are best estimates, not exact facts. World population taken as 8.2 billion.
Your rank uses the global income distribution from the World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (2024, via Our World in Data). It covers about 97 percent of the world's population. Incomes are converted with World Bank purchasing power factors.
The same income stretches further for one person than for a family of five. The tool divides household income by the square root of the number of people, which is the OECD square-root scale.
Money buys more in some places than in others. Purchasing power data measures what money actually buys, so your rank reflects real living standards. The US dollar line at today's exchange rate is shown only for reference.
No. The figures are careful estimates built from global data. They give perspective, not an exact accounting of your finances.
By Todd Allyn, Founding Director, Sovereo Intelligence Research. Research standard.