Income percentiles in Guinea-Bissau
Where each yearly income band starts in Guinea-Bissau, in XOF, and what a reading there measures.
Reference data version 2026.4, reference year 2024.
Three cut-offs
- Bottom tenth
- under CFA 460,000 a year
- Top tenth
- from CFA 2,100,000 a year
- Top hundredth
- from CFA 4,300,000 a year
The middle of the distribution, the 40th to 55th percentile, is CFA 790,000 – CFA 980,000 a year.
Every band
The 11 bands the income question offers in Guinea-Bissau, verbatim, lowest first.
| Band | Yearly income |
|---|---|
| Below the 10th percentile | under CFA 460,000 |
| 10th to 25th percentile | CFA 460,000 – CFA 610,000 |
| 25th to 40th percentile | CFA 610,000 – CFA 790,000 |
| 40th to 55th percentile | CFA 790,000 – CFA 980,000 |
| 55th to 70th percentile | CFA 980,000 – CFA 1,200,000 |
| 70th to 80th percentile | CFA 1,200,000 – CFA 1,500,000 |
| 80th to 90th percentile | CFA 1,500,000 – CFA 2,100,000 |
| 90th to 95th percentile | CFA 2,100,000 – CFA 2,500,000 |
| 95th to 98th percentile | CFA 2,500,000 – CFA 3,300,000 |
| 98th to 99th percentile | CFA 3,300,000 – CFA 4,300,000 |
| Top 1% | CFA 4,300,000 or more |
Per earner. The source publishes household consumption divided by everyone in the household; the labels multiply it by 2.59, the people one worker's income stands for in Guinea-Bissau, so a person can place their own income.
In Guinea-Bissau 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
- 1987 to 2024
- Survey-based years
- 11% of covered years
- Nearest survey
- 3 years from 2024
- Age bands
- none published; the all-ages row answers
- Measured on
- consumption
- Currency
- XOF (CFA)
Why: only 11% of covered years rest on a survey estimate.
What a reading in Guinea-Bissau 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 Guinea-Bissau itself.
- Your ground: both incomes with consumer prices in Guinea-Bissau taken out, against how the middle of the distribution moved over the same year.
- Nothing is compared across borders. A reading in Guinea-Bissau is measured against Guinea-Bissau 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.