About Where You Rank

A quick, honest answer to "how well off am I, really?", in your country and on the whole planet.

U.S. ranking

U.S. Census Bureau, Income in the United States: 2024 (P60-286), CPS ASEC 2025; Table A-4a quintile limits, top-5% limit, median and 90/10 and 90/50 ratios. Source. 10th and 90th percentiles derived from the published median and 90/50 and 90/10 ratios. The 99th and 99.9th percentiles are approximations (the CPS top-codes high incomes); treat the top end as rough.

World ranking

World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) poverty-line headcounts ($2.15, $3.65, $6.85) and Our World in Data summaries of the global distribution; upper percentiles approximate. Source. Survey data mixes income and consumption, and rich-country incomes are under-sampled, so percentiles above 90 are rough. U.S. dollars are converted to 2017 prices with CPI-U (2024 average / 2017 average = 1.28); 2017 PPP treats $1 in the U.S. as $1.

Method

Your income is placed between the nearest published percentiles using log-linear interpolation. For the world ranking, household income is divided by household size and by 365, then converted to 2017 dollars.