Income percentiles in Republic of the Congo
Where each yearly income band starts in Republic of the Congo, in XAF, and what a reading there measures.
Reference data version 2026.4, reference year 2024.
Three cut-offs
- Bottom tenth
- under FCFA 300,000 a year
- Top tenth
- from FCFA 2,600,000 a year
- Top hundredth
- from FCFA 8,600,000 a year
The middle of the distribution, the 40th to 55th percentile, is FCFA 720,000 – FCFA 990,000 a year.
Every band
The 11 bands the income question offers in Republic of the Congo, verbatim, lowest first.
| Band | Yearly income |
|---|---|
| Below the 10th percentile | under FCFA 300,000 |
| 10th to 25th percentile | FCFA 300,000 – FCFA 490,000 |
| 25th to 40th percentile | FCFA 490,000 – FCFA 720,000 |
| 40th to 55th percentile | FCFA 720,000 – FCFA 990,000 |
| 55th to 70th percentile | FCFA 990,000 – FCFA 1,400,000 |
| 70th to 80th percentile | FCFA 1,400,000 – FCFA 1,800,000 |
| 80th to 90th percentile | FCFA 1,800,000 – FCFA 2,600,000 |
| 90th to 95th percentile | FCFA 2,600,000 – FCFA 3,800,000 |
| 95th to 98th percentile | FCFA 3,800,000 – FCFA 6,600,000 |
| 98th to 99th percentile | FCFA 6,600,000 – FCFA 8,600,000 |
| Top 1% | FCFA 8,600,000 or more |
Per earner. The source publishes household consumption divided by everyone in the household; the labels multiply it by 3.09, the people one worker's income stands for in Republic of the Congo, so a person can place their own income.
In Republic of the Congo 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
- 1985 to 2024
- Survey-based years
- 3% of covered years
- Nearest survey
- 13 years from 2024
- Age bands
- none published; the all-ages row answers
- Measured on
- consumption
- Currency
- XAF (FCFA)
Why: the nearest measured survey is 13 years from the reference year.
What a reading in Republic of the Congo 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 Republic of the Congo itself.
- Your ground: both incomes with consumer prices in Republic of the Congo taken out, against how the middle of the distribution moved over the same year.
- Nothing is compared across borders. A reading in Republic of the Congo is measured against Republic of the Congo 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.