Income percentiles in Laos
Where each yearly income band starts in Laos, in LAK, and what a reading there measures.
Reference data version 2026.4, reference year 2024.
Three cut-offs
- Bottom tenth
- under LAK 17,000,000 a year
- Top tenth
- from LAK 69,900,000 a year
- Top hundredth
- from LAK 179,600,000 a year
The middle of the distribution, the 40th to 55th percentile, is LAK 28,100,000 – LAK 34,300,000 a year.
Every band
The 11 bands the income question offers in Laos, verbatim, lowest first.
| Band | Yearly income |
|---|---|
| Below the 10th percentile | under LAK 17,000,000 |
| 10th to 25th percentile | LAK 17,000,000 – LAK 22,700,000 |
| 25th to 40th percentile | LAK 22,700,000 – LAK 28,100,000 |
| 40th to 55th percentile | LAK 28,100,000 – LAK 34,300,000 |
| 55th to 70th percentile | LAK 34,300,000 – LAK 42,900,000 |
| 70th to 80th percentile | LAK 42,900,000 – LAK 52,400,000 |
| 80th to 90th percentile | LAK 52,400,000 – LAK 69,900,000 |
| 90th to 95th percentile | LAK 69,900,000 – LAK 90,100,000 |
| 95th to 98th percentile | LAK 90,100,000 – LAK 129,700,000 |
| 98th to 99th percentile | LAK 129,700,000 – LAK 179,600,000 |
| Top 1% | LAK 179,600,000 or more |
Per earner. The source publishes household consumption divided by everyone in the household; the labels multiply it by 2.20, the people one worker's income stands for in Laos, so a person can place their own income.
In Laos 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
- 1988 to 2024
- Survey-based years
- 3% of covered years
- Nearest survey
- in 2024 itself
- Age bands
- none published; the all-ages row answers
- Measured on
- consumption
- Currency
- LAK (LAK)
Why: only 3% of covered years rest on a survey estimate.
What a reading in Laos 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 Laos itself.
- Your ground: both incomes with consumer prices in Laos taken out, against how the middle of the distribution moved over the same year.
- Nothing is compared across borders. A reading in Laos is measured against Laos 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.