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Calculate how rich you are compared to the rest of the world. Are you in the top global income percentile? Does your household income make you wealthy?

How Rich Am I?

The estimated income percentiles used in this calculator can be found 

World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform

 and is saved for the latest year available (2022).

For global comparisons, all incomes were converted to 2017 international dollars, which are defined as the value of goods and services that one US dollar would buy in the US in 2017. This means that they are adjusted both for inflation and for differences in the cost of living between countries.
For more information on international dollars, see 

Please note that there are many uncertainties with all underlying source data attempting to estimate the global income distribution—some of these are 

. Any figures should therefore be taken with a grain of salt and treated as best guesses rather than established facts. 

 to estimate global income distribution get different, though broadly similar, results.

 (used to adjust for differences in cost of living)

A previous version of this calculator used income percentile calculations by 

If you have any questions about the calculator, please 