Income percentiles in Gambia
Where each yearly income band starts in Gambia, in GMD, and what a reading there measures.
Reference data version 2026.4, reference year 2024.
Three cut-offs
- Bottom tenth
- under GMD 74,000 a year
- Top tenth
- from GMD 400,000 a year
- Top hundredth
- from GMD 980,000 a year
The middle of the distribution, the 40th to 55th percentile, is GMD 140,000 – GMD 180,000 a year.
Every band
The 11 bands the income question offers in Gambia, verbatim, lowest first.
| Band | Yearly income |
|---|---|
| Below the 10th percentile | under GMD 74,000 |
| 10th to 25th percentile | GMD 74,000 – GMD 110,000 |
| 25th to 40th percentile | GMD 110,000 – GMD 140,000 |
| 40th to 55th percentile | GMD 140,000 – GMD 180,000 |
| 55th to 70th percentile | GMD 180,000 – GMD 230,000 |
| 70th to 80th percentile | GMD 230,000 – GMD 290,000 |
| 80th to 90th percentile | GMD 290,000 – GMD 400,000 |
| 90th to 95th percentile | GMD 400,000 – GMD 530,000 |
| 95th to 98th percentile | GMD 530,000 – GMD 750,000 |
| 98th to 99th percentile | GMD 750,000 – GMD 980,000 |
| Top 1% | GMD 980,000 or more |
Per earner. The source publishes household consumption divided by everyone in the household; the labels multiply it by 3.77, the people one worker's income stands for in Gambia, so a person can place their own income.
In Gambia 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
- 4 years from 2024
- Age bands
- none published; the all-ages row answers
- Measured on
- consumption
- Currency
- GMD (GMD)
Why: only 2% of covered years rest on a survey estimate.
What a reading in Gambia 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 Gambia itself.
- Your ground: both incomes with consumer prices in Gambia taken out, against how the middle of the distribution moved over the same year.
- Nothing is compared across borders. A reading in Gambia is measured against Gambia 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.