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Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2023 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2023; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2023 compilation covers 60 countries on 2 measures. Luxembourg is highest, at 89.5; Uganda is lowest, at 2.8. The middle country reads 22.8. Against the 2022 compilation, 51 values changed (39 up, 12 down), 9 countries joined, 22 left.

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Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person · Latest available · compiled 2023

HighestLuxembourg

89.5

LowestUganda

2.8

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, 2023 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 60 countries · select a heading to sort

Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2023 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
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1LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe · 2023 reading89.5106.10income2023
2NorwayNORNorthern Europe · 2023 reading77.886.74income2023
3SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe · 2023 reading71.886.93income2023
4AustriaAUTWestern Europe · 2023 reading71.481.63income2023
5United StatesUSANorthern America · 2023 reading69.792.95income2023
6BelgiumBELWestern Europe · 2023 reading62.969.92income2023
7DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe · 2023 reading60.772.67income2023
8FranceFRAWestern Europe · 2023 reading57.266.80income2023
9FinlandFINNorthern Europe · 2023 reading56.564.46income2023
10MaltaMLTSouthern Europe · 2023 reading56.065.08income2023
11SwedenSWENorthern Europe · 2023 reading55.662.83income2023
12CyprusCYPWestern Asia · 2023 reading52.163.38income2023
13IrelandIRLNorthern Europe · 2023 reading50.559.16income2023
14SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe · 2023 reading49.254.71income2023
15ItalyITASouthern Europe · 2023 reading48.857.51income2023
16SpainESPSouthern Europe · 2023 reading47.354.85income2023
17CzechiaCZEEastern Europe · 2023 reading39.143.35income2023
18PolandPOLEastern Europe · 2023 reading38.844.05income2023
19LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe · 2023 reading37.646.53income2023
20CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe · 2023 reading36.741.35income2023
21EstoniaESTNorthern Europe · 2023 reading36.543.80income2023
22PortugalPRTSouthern Europe · 2023 reading33.741.07income2023
23RussiaRUSEastern Europe · 2023 reading33.641.11income2023
24LatviaLVANorthern Europe · 2023 reading33.040.02income2023
25BulgariaBGREastern Europe · 2023 reading30.239.41income2023

02In Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2023 compilation

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Luxembourg89.5
  2. 2Norway77.8
  3. 3Switzerland71.8
  4. 4Austria71.4
  5. 5United States69.7

Lowest

  1. 60Uganda2.8
  2. 59Rwanda3.5
  3. 58India5.9
  4. 57Indonesia6.2
  5. 56Kyrgyzstan6.3

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 22.8. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

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

    HighestLuxembourg106.10

    LowestUganda3.69

    Middle country: 27.95

032022 → 2023

Since the 2022 compilation

What changed between the 2022 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +9 / −22countries joined / left
  • 51values changed, of 51 in both
  • 39 · 12rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ 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

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 2023, from 2023 to 2023.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 60 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 (2023). Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2023 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/median-daily-income/2023

0622 held

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07Questions

Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2023 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest median income per day in Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2023 compilation?

Luxembourg, at 89.5, of the 60 countries in the file.

How many countries does Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2023 compilation cover?

60.

Where can I download Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, 2023 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, 2023 compilation the newest?

Yes, as of 2026-09-26, when it was read from the publisher.

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