Income percentiles in Central African Republic
Where each yearly income band starts in Central African Republic, in XAF, and what a reading there measures.
Reference data version 2026.4, reference year 2024.
Three cut-offs
- Bottom tenth
- under FCFA 250,000 a year
- Top tenth
- from FCFA 1,700,000 a year
- Top hundredth
- from FCFA 4,500,000 a year
The middle of the distribution, the 40th to 55th percentile, is FCFA 500,000 – FCFA 660,000 a year.
Every band
The 11 bands the income question offers in Central African Republic, verbatim, lowest first.
| Band | Yearly income |
|---|---|
| Below the 10th percentile | under FCFA 250,000 |
| 10th to 25th percentile | FCFA 250,000 – FCFA 380,000 |
| 25th to 40th percentile | FCFA 380,000 – FCFA 500,000 |
| 40th to 55th percentile | FCFA 500,000 – FCFA 660,000 |
| 55th to 70th percentile | FCFA 660,000 – FCFA 910,000 |
| 70th to 80th percentile | FCFA 910,000 – FCFA 1,200,000 |
| 80th to 90th percentile | FCFA 1,200,000 – FCFA 1,700,000 |
| 90th to 95th percentile | FCFA 1,700,000 – FCFA 2,300,000 |
| 95th to 98th percentile | FCFA 2,300,000 – FCFA 3,500,000 |
| 98th to 99th percentile | FCFA 3,500,000 – FCFA 4,500,000 |
| Top 1% | FCFA 4,500,000 or more |
Per earner. The source publishes household consumption divided by everyone in the household; the labels multiply it by 2.85, the people one worker's income stands for in Central African Republic, so a person can place their own income.
In Central African Republic 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
- 5% of covered years
- Nearest survey
- 3 years from 2024
- Age bands
- none published; the all-ages row answers
- Measured on
- consumption
- Currency
- XAF (FCFA)
Why: only 5% of covered years rest on a survey estimate.
What a reading in Central African Republic 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 Central African Republic itself.
- Your ground: both incomes with consumer prices in Central African Republic taken out, against how the middle of the distribution moved over the same year.
- Nothing is compared across borders. A reading in Central African Republic is measured against Central African Republic 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.