Income percentiles in Iraq
Where each yearly income band starts in Iraq, in IQD, and what a reading there measures.
Reference data version 2026.4, reference year 2024.
Three cut-offs
- Bottom tenth
- under IQD 6,100,000 a year
- Top tenth
- from IQD 22,400,000 a year
- Top hundredth
- from IQD 46,200,000 a year
The middle of the distribution, the 40th to 55th percentile, is IQD 9,900,000 – IQD 12,000,000 a year.
Every band
The 11 bands the income question offers in Iraq, verbatim, lowest first.
| Band | Yearly income |
|---|---|
| Below the 10th percentile | under IQD 6,100,000 |
| 10th to 25th percentile | IQD 6,100,000 – IQD 8,200,000 |
| 25th to 40th percentile | IQD 8,200,000 – IQD 9,900,000 |
| 40th to 55th percentile | IQD 9,900,000 – IQD 12,000,000 |
| 55th to 70th percentile | IQD 12,000,000 – IQD 14,800,000 |
| 70th to 80th percentile | IQD 14,800,000 – IQD 17,400,000 |
| 80th to 90th percentile | IQD 17,400,000 – IQD 22,400,000 |
| 90th to 95th percentile | IQD 22,400,000 – IQD 28,200,000 |
| 95th to 98th percentile | IQD 28,200,000 – IQD 37,800,000 |
| 98th to 99th percentile | IQD 37,800,000 – IQD 46,200,000 |
| Top 1% | IQD 46,200,000 or more |
Per earner. The source publishes household consumption divided by everyone in the household; the labels multiply it by 4.48, the people one worker's income stands for in Iraq, so a person can place their own income.
In Iraq 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
- 1990 to 2024
- Survey-based years
- 6% of covered years
- Nearest survey
- 1 years from 2024
- Age bands
- none published; the all-ages row answers
- Measured on
- consumption
- Currency
- IQD (IQD)
Why: only 6% of covered years rest on a survey estimate.
What a reading in Iraq 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 Iraq itself.
- Your ground: both incomes with consumer prices in Iraq taken out, against how the middle of the distribution moved over the same year.
- Nothing is compared across borders. A reading in Iraq is measured against Iraq 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.