Income percentiles in Bhutan
Where each yearly income band starts in Bhutan, in BTN, and what a reading there measures.
Reference data version 2026.4, reference year 2024.
Three cut-offs
- Bottom tenth
- under BTN 160,000 a year
- Top tenth
- from BTN 580,000 a year
- Top hundredth
- from BTN 1,100,000 a year
The middle of the distribution, the 40th to 55th percentile, is BTN 270,000 – BTN 330,000 a year.
Every band
The 11 bands the income question offers in Bhutan, verbatim, lowest first.
| Band | Yearly income |
|---|---|
| Below the 10th percentile | under BTN 160,000 |
| 10th to 25th percentile | BTN 160,000 – BTN 220,000 |
| 25th to 40th percentile | BTN 220,000 – BTN 270,000 |
| 40th to 55th percentile | BTN 270,000 – BTN 330,000 |
| 55th to 70th percentile | BTN 330,000 – BTN 400,000 |
| 70th to 80th percentile | BTN 400,000 – BTN 460,000 |
| 80th to 90th percentile | BTN 460,000 – BTN 580,000 |
| 90th to 95th percentile | BTN 580,000 – BTN 700,000 |
| 95th to 98th percentile | BTN 700,000 – BTN 880,000 |
| 98th to 99th percentile | BTN 880,000 – BTN 1,100,000 |
| Top 1% | BTN 1,100,000 or more |
Per earner. The source publishes household consumption divided by everyone in the household; the labels multiply it by 2.01, the people one worker's income stands for in Bhutan, so a person can place their own income.
In Bhutan the distribution is measured on consumption, not income. The two are not interchangeable, and the multiplier does not turn one into the other.
What the data rests on
- Confidence
- Low
- Years covered
- 1981 to 2024
- Survey-based years
- 11% of covered years
- Nearest survey
- 2 years from 2024
- Age bands
- none published; the all-ages row answers
- Measured on
- consumption
- Currency
- BTN (BTN)
Why: only 11% of covered years rest on a survey estimate.
What a reading in Bhutan measures
- Your place: which of the bands above your income is in now, against the band it was in a year ago, read as a position in the income distribution of Bhutan itself.
- Your ground: both incomes with consumer prices in Bhutan taken out, against how the middle of the distribution moved over the same year.
- Nothing is compared across borders. A reading in Bhutan is measured against Bhutan alone.
A band is a range, so a move inside one band does not register, and published distributions understate the very top. The confidence level above travels onto every card measured here.