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Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2022 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2022; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2022 compilation covers 73 countries on 2 measures. Luxembourg is highest, at 87.47; Mozambique is lowest, at 1.48. The middle country reads 17.38. Against the 2021 compilation, 56 values changed (27 up, 29 down), 17 countries joined, 26 left.

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Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person · Latest available · compiled 2022

HighestLuxembourg

87.47

LowestMozambique

1.48

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2022 compilation, as published. World Bank Group ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 73 countries · select a heading to sort

Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2022 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
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1LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe · 2022 reading87.47103.27income2022
2NorwayNORNorthern Europe · 2022 reading75.8784.81income2022
3AustriaAUTWestern Europe · 2022 reading72.6882.43income2022
4SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe · 2022 reading72.2987.39income2022
5United StatesUSANorthern America · 2022 reading67.7289.95income2022
6CanadaCANNorthern America · 2022 reading64.7275.73income2022
7GermanyDEUWestern Europe · 2022 reading64.1875.84income2022
8BelgiumBELWestern Europe · 2022 reading61.0468.39income2022
9DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe · 2022 reading61.0371.86income2022
10FranceFRAWestern Europe · 2022 reading57.0266.08income2022
11FinlandFINNorthern Europe · 2022 reading56.5665.85income2022
12SwedenSWENorthern Europe · 2022 reading55.9864.95income2022
13MaltaMLTSouthern Europe · 2022 reading53.5265.45income2022
14IrelandIRLNorthern Europe · 2022 reading50.1059.46income2022
15ItalyITASouthern Europe · 2022 reading49.9458.26income2022
16CyprusCYPWestern Asia · 2022 reading49.2959.54income2022
17SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe · 2022 reading48.3553.84income2022
18SpainESPSouthern Europe · 2022 reading46.3454.05income2022
19CzechiaCZEEastern Europe · 2022 reading39.4844.76income2022
20PolandPOLEastern Europe · 2022 reading38.2443.47income2022
21IsraelISRWestern Asia · 2022 reading37.4845.20income2022
22EstoniaESTNorthern Europe · 2022 reading36.8844.22income2022
23LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe · 2022 reading36.8346.82income2022
24PortugalPRTSouthern Europe · 2022 reading32.2040.85income2022
25LatviaLVANorthern Europe · 2022 reading31.6437.99income2022

02In Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2022 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure.

Highest

  1. 1Luxembourg87.47
  2. 2Norway75.87
  3. 3Austria72.68
  4. 4Switzerland72.29
  5. 5United States67.72

Lowest

  1. 73Mozambique1.48
  2. 72Zambia1.68
  3. 71Kenya3.22
  4. 70Nigeria3.39
  5. 69Chad3.66

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 17.38. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Mean income or consumption per person (2021 PPP $ a day)

    HighestLuxembourg103.27

    LowestMozambique2.38

    Middle country: 24.27

032021 → 2022

Since the 2021 compilation

What changed between the 2021 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +17 / −26countries joined / left
  • 56values changed, of 56 in both
  • 27 · 29rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ 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

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored
  • Readings from many years

    Each country’s newest reading as of 2022, from 2022 to 2022.

  • The position is ours

    World Bank Group publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 73 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: 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.

Licence: CC BY 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

World Bank Group (2022). Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2022 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/median-daily-income/2022

0622 held

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07Questions

Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2022 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest median income per day in Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2022 compilation?

Luxembourg, at 87.47, of the 73 countries in the file.

How many countries does Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2022 compilation cover?

73.

Where can I download Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2022 compilation?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2022 compilation the newest?

No. The newest held here is Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2023 compilation.

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