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According to 2013 data from Gallup, the median household income worldwide was $9,733 (PPP, Current Int$). Countries with the lowest median income included Libera, Burundi, Mali, Benin, Togo, Sierra Leone, and Madagascar. This data was based on self-reported data that was gathered between 2006 and 2012.
The median income is the income amount that divides a population into two groups, half having an income above that amount, and half having an income below that amount. It may differ from the mean (or average) income. Both of these are ways of understanding income distribution.
The data is measured in international-$ at 2017 prices – this adjusts for inflation and for differences in the cost of living between countries. Depending on the country and year, the data relates to income measured after taxes and benefits, or to consumption, per capita.
The list below represents a national accounts-derived indicator for a country or territory's gross household disposable income per capita (including social transfers in kind).
Average income around the world. The worldwide highest income is earned in Monaco. The smallest budget per capita exists in Afghanistan. In our comparison over 92 countries, the USA comes 7th with an average income of 80,300 USD. The average gross annual wage per full-time employee in the USA was $80,116 in 2023, or around $6,676 per month ...
The ten countries with the highest median income are Luxembourg, United Arab Emirates, Norway, Switzerland, United States, Canada, Austria, Sweden, Denmark, and Netherlands. Luxembourg tops the list with the highest median income, amounting to $26,321 annually.
This data is adjusted for inflation and for differences in the cost of living between countries. Income here is measured after taxes and benefits.
This data is adjusted for inflation and for differences in the cost of living between countries. Income here is measured after taxes and benefits.
Adjusted net national income per capita (current US$) World Bank staff estimates based on sources and methods in World Bank's "The Changing Wealth of Nations: Measuring Sustainable Development in the New Millennium" ( 2011 ).
It contains a number of standardised indicators based on the central concept of "equivalised household disposable income", i.e. the total income received by the households less the current taxes and transfers they pay, adjusted for household size with an equivalence scale.