Income percentiles in Ethiopia
Where each yearly income band starts in Ethiopia, in ETB, and what a reading there measures.
Reference data version 2026.4, reference year 2024.
Three cut-offs
- Bottom tenth
- under ETB 50,000 a year
- Top tenth
- from ETB 200,000 a year
- Top hundredth
- from ETB 410,000 a year
The middle of the distribution, the 40th to 55th percentile, is ETB 86,000 – ETB 100,000 a year.
Every band
The 11 bands the income question offers in Ethiopia, verbatim, lowest first.
| Band | Yearly income |
|---|---|
| Below the 10th percentile | under ETB 50,000 |
| 10th to 25th percentile | ETB 50,000 – ETB 69,000 |
| 25th to 40th percentile | ETB 69,000 – ETB 86,000 |
| 40th to 55th percentile | ETB 86,000 – ETB 100,000 |
| 55th to 70th percentile | ETB 100,000 – ETB 130,000 |
| 70th to 80th percentile | ETB 130,000 – ETB 150,000 |
| 80th to 90th percentile | ETB 150,000 – ETB 200,000 |
| 90th to 95th percentile | ETB 200,000 – ETB 250,000 |
| 95th to 98th percentile | ETB 250,000 – ETB 340,000 |
| 98th to 99th percentile | ETB 340,000 – ETB 410,000 |
| Top 1% | ETB 410,000 or more |
Per earner. The source publishes household consumption divided by everyone in the household; the labels multiply it by 2.48, the people one worker's income stands for in Ethiopia, so a person can place their own income.
In Ethiopia 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
- 2% of covered years
- Nearest survey
- 3 years from 2024
- Age bands
- none published; the all-ages row answers
- Measured on
- consumption
- Currency
- ETB (ETB)
Why: only 2% of covered years rest on a survey estimate.
What a reading in Ethiopia 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 Ethiopia itself.
- Your ground: both incomes with consumer prices in Ethiopia taken out, against how the middle of the distribution moved over the same year.
- Nothing is compared across borders. A reading in Ethiopia is measured against Ethiopia 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.