Dataset · World Bank Group

Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person

22 editions, 2002–2023 · 60 countries · 2 measures

This is what the person in the middle of a country’s income distribution lives on each day — half the population have less, half have more — in 2021 purchasing-power-parity dollars, so a dollar buys the same basket everywhere. It is the closest single number to a typical person’s living standard, and unlike an average it is not lifted by a few very high incomes.

This site holds every edition from 2002 to 2023, read from World Bank Group’s own data and stored exactly as published.

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Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person · the file

Newest: Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2023 compilation
Held: 22 editions · 1,737 rows
Licence: CC BY 4.0

22editions held
2002–2023editions, by release
—readings from many years
60countries in the newest169 across every edition
2measures per country
CC BY 4.0licence

0122 editions

Every edition

Newest first. Each opens the full table for that edition, and each downloads as a CSV.

2002bar height: countries covered, up to 942023

Every edition of Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
Edition	Countries	Change	Read	Download
Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2023 compilationNewest	60	+9 −22	September 26, 2026	CSV
Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2022 compilation	73	+17 −26	September 26, 2026	CSV
Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2021 compilation	82	+23 −12	September 26, 2026	CSV
Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2020 compilation	71	+9 −17	September 26, 2026	CSV
Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2019 compilation	79	+12 −27	September 26, 2026	CSV
Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2018 compilation	94	+27 −12	September 26, 2026	CSV
Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2017 compilation	79	+11 −16	September 26, 2026	CSV
Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2016 compilation	84	+19 −22	September 26, 2026	CSV
Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2015 compilation	87	+22 −19	September 26, 2026	CSV
Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2014 compilation	84	+19 −13	September 26, 2026	CSV
Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2013 compilation	78	+12 −21	September 26, 2026	CSV
Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2012 compilation	87	+22 −17	September 26, 2026	CSV

Show all 22 editions

Edition	Countries	Change	Read	Download
Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2011 compilation	82	+18 −23	September 26, 2026	CSV
Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2010 compilation	87	+25 −21	September 26, 2026	CSV
Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2009 compilation	83	+21 −17	September 26, 2026	CSV
Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2008 compilation	79	+21 −15	September 26, 2026	CSV
Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2007 compilation	73	+14 −23	September 26, 2026	CSV
Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2006 compilation	82	+23 −22	September 26, 2026	CSV
Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2005 compilation	81	+22 −16	September 26, 2026	CSV
Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2004 compilation	75	+22 −16	September 26, 2026	CSV
Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2003 compilation	69	+26 −25	September 26, 2026	CSV
Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2002 compilation	68	—	September 26, 2026	CSV

Every edition in one file, one row per country per edition: median-daily-income-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

026 columns

What’s in the file

Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.

Every column in the newest file of Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2023	Distinct
Country`country`Name	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	60
ISO Code`country_code`Identifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	60
Median income or consumption per person (2021 PPP $ a day)`median_daily_income`Headline	The headline figure: Median income or consumption per person, 2021 PPP dollars a day.	Number · up to 4 decimals	2.8Uganda89.5Luxembourgmiddle 22.8	60
Mean income or consumption per person (2021 PPP $ a day)`mean_daily_income`Measure	Average daily income or consumption per person, in 2021 PPP dollars; a few very high incomes can lift it well above the median.	Number · up to 4 decimals	3.69Uganda106.10Luxembourgmiddle 27.95	60
Survey measures`welfare_type`Grouping	World Bank Group’s own grouping of the country.	Text	—	2
Survey year`survey_year`Reading year	The year this country’s reading describes. Readings from different years sit side by side.	Year	—	6

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the better result.

03169 countries across every edition

Who is covered

How many countries each edition holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.

All regions

Countries in each edition of Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, by continent.
	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
Africa	9	5	9	13	7	7	15	6	5	15	7	2
Americas	17	16	18	16	17	16	19	15	14	15	16	15
Asia	20	16	17	17	20	17	21	16	15	17	20	14
Europe	39	38	39	40	39	39	38	38	36	34	30	28
Oceania	2	3	1	1	1	0	1	4	1	1	0	1
All	87	78	84	87	84	79	94	79	71	82	73	60

The newest 12 of 22 editions.

Who joined and who left

2023 compilation
+ Guatemala+ Honduras+ Iraq+ Kiribati+ Panama+ Philippines+ Palestine+ Rwanda+ Uganda− Bangladesh− Bhutan− Canada− Chile− China− Germany− Equatorial Guinea− Israel− Kenya− Lebanon− Mexico− Mongolia− Mozambique− Nigeria− Nepal− Suriname− Syria− Chad− Vietnam− Kosovo− South Africa− Zambia
2022 compilation
+ Bangladesh+ Bhutan+ Chile+ Equatorial Guinea+ India+ Lebanon+ Mexico+ Mongolia+ Mozambique+ Nigeria+ Nepal+ Suriname+ Syria+ Chad+ Vietnam+ South Africa+ Zambia− Benin− Burkina Faso− Bosnia and Herzegovina− Central African Republic− Côte d’Ivoire− Cameroon− Egypt− Ethiopia− United Kingdom− Guinea-Bissau− Jamaica− Kazakhstan− South Korea− Madagascar− Mali− Montenegro− Malaysia− Niger− Netherlands− Panama− Philippines− Senegal− Togo− Tonga− Tunisia− Taiwan
2021 compilation
+ Benin+ Burkina Faso+ Bosnia and Herzegovina+ Central African Republic+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Cameroon+ Egypt+ Ethiopia+ Guinea-Bissau+ Jamaica+ Madagascar+ Mali+ Malaysia+ Niger+ Panama+ Philippines+ Senegal+ El Salvador+ Togo+ Tajikistan+ Tonga+ Tunisia+ Uzbekistan− Albania− Australia− Burundi− Belarus− Chile− DR Congo− Comoros− Gambia− Japan− Mexico− Ukraine− Vietnam
2020 compilation
+ Australia+ Burundi+ Chile+ DR Congo+ Comoros+ Gambia+ Kenya+ Mexico+ Vietnam− Egypt− Fiji− Honduras− Iceland− Kiribati− Sri Lanka− Maldives− Marshall Islands− North Macedonia− Mozambique− Mauritania− Malawi− Panama− El Salvador− Uganda− Vanuatu− Zimbabwe
2019 compilation
+ Egypt+ Fiji+ Kiribati+ Sri Lanka+ Maldives+ Marshall Islands+ Mozambique+ Mauritania+ Malawi+ Uganda+ Vanuatu+ Zimbabwe− Angola− United Arab Emirates− Australia− Benin− Burkina Faso− Belize− Côte d’Ivoire− Guinea− Guinea-Bissau− Grenada− Jamaica− Laos− Mexico− Mali− Mongolia− Malaysia− Niger− Nigeria− Pakistan− Philippines− Senegal− Sierra Leone− Seychelles− Chad− Togo− Tanzania− Vietnam
2018 compilation
+ Angola+ United Arab Emirates+ Australia+ Benin+ Burkina Faso+ Belize+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Guinea+ Guinea-Bissau+ Grenada+ Jamaica+ Laos+ Mexico+ Mali+ Mongolia+ Malaysia+ Niger+ Nigeria+ Pakistan+ Philippines+ Senegal+ Sierra Leone+ Seychelles+ Chad+ Togo+ Tanzania+ Vietnam− Bhutan− Chile− Djibouti− Egypt− Gabon− Hungary− Lesotho− Myanmar− Mauritius− Qatar− São Tomé and Príncipe− Zimbabwe
2017 compilation
+ Bhutan+ Chile+ Djibouti+ Egypt+ Gabon+ Lesotho+ Myanmar+ Mauritius+ Qatar+ São Tomé and Príncipe+ Zimbabwe− Australia− Bangladesh− Barbados− Ghana− Liberia− Sri Lanka− Maldives− Mexico− Mongolia− Malawi− Palestine− Rwanda− South Sudan− Eswatini− Uganda− Vietnam
2016 compilation
+ Argentina+ Australia+ Bangladesh+ Barbados+ Ghana+ South Korea+ Liberia+ Sri Lanka+ Maldives+ Mexico+ Mongolia+ Malawi+ Palestine+ Rwanda+ South Sudan+ Eswatini+ Taiwan+ Uganda+ Vietnam− Benin− Bosnia and Herzegovina− Botswana− Chile− Côte d’Ivoire− Cabo Verde− Egypt− Ethiopia− Gambia− Kenya− Saint Lucia− Myanmar− Malaysia− Namibia− Nigeria− Pakistan− Philippines− Togo− Tajikistan− Tonga− Tunisia− Zambia

Not in this dataset · 55 places this site covers

World Bank Group gives no figure for these in any edition held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

04Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method

1 · Publisher
World Bank Group
pip.worldbank.org
2 · Their file
Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person 2023
pip
3 · Read by this site
September 26, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.
4 · Stored as
22 files, one per edition
Each downloads as a CSV, or every edition together as median-daily-income-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
/statistics/median-daily-income

Precision

The headline is stored to 4 decimals, as published.

Rounded by this site

Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.

Changed by this site

Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Read from the World Bank’s Poverty and Inequality Platform, which publishes the median to four decimals; the Bank’s indicator API carries no median at all. Years outside 2002–2023 fall below 60 countries and are not imported.

05Reuse

Licence and credit

What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked September 26, 2026

CC BY 4.0

Share and redistribute it
Adapt it and build on it
Use it commercially
Credit the publisher
Say what you changed

Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.

A credit line

Source: World Bank Group, Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, via Nations Inquiry.

Cite this dataset

World Bank Group. Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2002–2023 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/median-daily-income

The publisher’s own citation: World Bank. Poverty and Inequality Platform. Washington, DC: World Bank Group.

Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.

06Where it is used

Around the site

Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.

Charted
Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person by country
Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
Subjects
- Poverty & Inequality
Near neighbours
- Gini IndexWorld Bank Group · 22 held · 2002–2023
- Poverty Gap at $3.00 a DayWorld Bank Group · 22 held · 2002–2023
- Income Share Held by Lowest 20%World Bank Group · 22 held · 2002–2023

07Questions

Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person: questions and answers

What is the Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person?

Which editions of the Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person can I download?

All 22, from 2002 to 2023, each as a CSV file, or every edition together in one CSV.

Does World Bank Group rank countries on it?

No. World Bank Group publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.

Can I use it commercially?

Yes, under CC BY 4.0, with credit to World Bank Group. The licence text is linked on this page.

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Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2023 compilationNewest

+9 −22

September 26, 2026