Median Income by Country 2022

A country’s median income is a middle measure of its income distribution. Half of a country’s population earns more than the median income, while the other half earns less than the median.




There are a few advantages to using the median instead of the average or the mean when making statistical comparisons. A sample group of persons and their earnings, for example:

Mike – $30,000 Ahmed – $40,000 Stephanie – $50,000 Midori – $40,000 Contessa – $25,000 Gary – $55,000 Jordan – $1,000,000

For all seven persons, the average wage is $177,142 since Jordan has a high salary. This is completely false for all seven people. For everyone else, though, the median (sometimes referred to as “average”) salary is about $40,000, which is about right.

For example, the World Bank monitors GDP per capita, GNI per capita, and the GINI coefficient for each nation and median income. According to the World Bank, these are the top 10 nations with the greatest median earnings in March 2021.




International dollars, a fictional currency used in country-to-country comparisons, are utilized in these figures. There is no real-world currency equal to international dollars, not even the U.S. dollar or the euro.

As of March 2021, the 10 countries with the highest median incomes (PPP, current international currency):

  1. Luxembourg – 26,321
  2. United Arab Emirates – 24,292
  3. Norway – 22,684
  4. Switzerland – 21,490
  5. United States – 19,306
  6. Canada – 18,652
  7. Austria – 18,405
  8. Sweden – 17,625
  9. Denmark – 17,432
  10. Netherlands – 17,154




The 10 countries with the lowest median income in March 2021 (PPP, Current Int$):

  1. Congo, Democratic Republic of – 395
  2. Madagascar – 398
  3. Burundi – 475
  4. Malawi – 484
  5. Guinea-Bissau – 486
  6. Central African Republic – 491
  7. Mozambique – 529
  8. Zambia – 545
  9. Uzbekistan – 591
  10. Rwanda – 621

According to Gallup statistics, the median household income was $9,733 (PPP, USD) in 2013. Burundi and Madagascar were two of the countries with lower median incomes.

Also See: Market Economy Countries 2022

Self-reported information was used to compile this study between 2006 and 2012. See the table below for a complete list of nations and their median earnings (PPP, Current Int$).




CountryMedian IncomeMean IncomeGDP Per Capita (PPP)2022 Population
Luxembourg2632131376124590642.3710
United Arab Emirates24292270177008910081.7850
Norway2268425272700055511.3700
Switzerland2149025787723768773.6370
United States193062533265297334805.2690
Canada18652220425166838388.4190
Austria1840520718604189066.7100
Sweden17625201935663210218.9710
Denmark1743220304620895834.9500
Netherlands17154196906128517211.4470
Australia17076213295338126068.7920
Iceland170171930060132345.3930
Germany16845197305753083883.5960
France16372194095099265584.5180
Finland1633218742531715554.9600
Belgium16157179175634811668.2780
United Kingdom14793181334993168497.9070
Malta145431650947578444.0330
Ireland1452017938896835020.1990
Japan142551709543593125584.8380
Taiwan1360516355023888.5950
Italy13170155474572260262.7700
Cyprus1305315663412541223.3870
South Korea12507143164401151329.8990
Slovenia1187813056424312078.0340
Spain11786138224349546719.1420
Israel1086613271428978922.8920
Estonia1065112540399861321.9100
Czech Republic10046113944429510736.7840
Poland8885101553516537739.7850
Portugal8439103163791810140.5700
Lithuania826710479400162661.7080
Slovakia79918408335155460.1930
Latvia79719727330201848.8370
Lebanon77129091151956684.8490
Hungary76848613349669606.2590
Uruguay75339888225153496.0160
Malaysia7512102002961933181.0720
Croatia71968008311304059.2860
Greece693681313250610316.6370
Belarus65077359199979432.8000
Chile629393042700219250.1950
Panama62549453328504446.9640
Bosnia and Herzegovina59257131162883249.3170
Bulgaria56967474253126844.5970
Russia5504727529181145805.9470
Costa Rica54578440217375182.3540
Maldives5409643520395540.9850
Argentina53196935046010.2340
Seychelles531480443051699.4260
Turkey525172672813385561.9760
Romania520659493333919031.3350
Brazil4559765415299215353.5930
Saint Lucia4519694616132185.1130
Ukraine443450101334143192.1220
Serbia44165252194958653.0160
Iran436059241293786022.8370
Thailand435656701927670078.2030
Paraguay43346373132467305.8430
Montenegro4193512324035627.9500
Dominican Republic406058731922711056.3700
North Macedonia38574279181072081.3040
Mauritius38324969238821274.7270
Peru367849771341633684.2080
Kazakhstan366143132751719205.0430
Bolivia36314787911011992.6560
Ecuador352550461187818113.3610
Tunisia336640761123112046.6560
Mexico3315492920944131562.7720
Colombia325952011601251512.7620
Azerbaijan319338511504110300.2050
Jordan318540251051710300.8690
Vietnam31493881839798953.5410
Moldova31333590136264013.1710
El Salvador3095398991646550.3890
Jamaica28994429101932985.0940
Trinidad and Tobago28683711273341406.5850
Mongolia28003409128613378.0780
Tonga278236776665107.7490
Gabon27793544156112331.5330
Morocco27163721782637772.7560
Venezuela271037411752729266.9910
Nicaragua2697391356466779.1000
Algeria261229961201945350.1480
Albania25783141146482866.3740
Samoa253734186795202.2390
Fiji2460326114289909.4660
Bhutan2446318912355787.9410
Sri Lanka227731621365621575.8420
Georgia22732814156553968.7380
Armenia22162810142572971.9660
Tuvalu20992802447012.0660
Guatemala20363103901918584.0390
Guyana2003272913661794.0450
Syria19962606019364.8090
Tajikistan1994243735299957.4640
Namibia19624023100632633.8740
Honduras19593109598110221.2470
Iraq195122931136242164.9650
Belize192732467314412.1900
Myanmar19092296536955227.1430
Kyrgyzstan1892223554856728.2710
Ghana17792422565232395.4500
Mauritania1760209454274901.9810
Suriname1659259317256596.8310
South Africa162440811303460756.1350
Botswana15962907185522441.1620
Philippines158121999302112508.9940
Kiribati148918582372123.4190
Egypt148518470106156.6920
Micronesia141318583547117.4890
Djibouti1403186957791016.0970
Comoros140120503194907.4190
Pakistan139917974898229488.9940
Gambia1383178423212558.4820
Vanuatu137917813292321.8320
Sudan12771592412245992.0200
Cameroon12451841380327911.5480
Haiti11621540303411680.2830
Lesotho1157165928242175.6990
Nepal11551428356730225.5820
Yemen11501503368831154.8670
Bangladesh113114144964167885.6890
Eswatini1097209190031184.8170
Laos1065138981727481.0230
Solomon Islands102813332780721.1590
Ivory Coast9871358544327742.2980
Timor-Leste970114737091369.4290
Zimbabwe9321429296115331.4280
Ethiopia90711072319120812.6980
Sao Tome and Principe90116204145227.6790
Republic of the Congo892137538355797.8050
Chad8801182164917413.5800
Papua New Guinea876116245479292.1690
Kenya8741197452156215.2210
Senegal8441137354517653.6710
Guinea8431036267513865.6910
Nigeria82510215362216746.9340
Uganda8041166228448432.8630
South Sudan7931121123411618.5110
Sierra Leone765100417948306.4360
Liberia75394514915305.1170
Burkina Faso7481002227422102.8380
Niger738937127826083.6600
Turkmenistan706963152066201.9430
Tanzania702992277063298.5500
Benin699989343212784.7260
Mali689861242421473.7640
Togo68396416678680.8370
Angola6651066696535027.3430
Rwanda621925232513600.4640
Uzbekistan591752730834382.0840
Zambia5451045362419470.2340
Mozambique529947133833089.4610
Central African Republic4918919865016.6780
Guinea-Bissau48679720772063.3670
Malawi484733110620180.8390
Burundi47564078412624.8400
Madagascar398567171929178.0770
DR Congo395548114695240.7920
India0131469961406631.7760
China04246168291448471.4000




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