Income percentiles in Namibia
Where each yearly income band starts in Namibia, in NAD, and what a reading there measures.
Reference data version 2026.4, reference year 2024.
Three cut-offs
- Bottom tenth
- under NAD 18,000 a year
- Top tenth
- from NAD 290,000 a year
- Top hundredth
- from NAD 1,100,000 a year
The middle of the distribution, the 40th to 55th percentile, is NAD 50,000 – NAD 73,000 a year.
Every band
The 11 bands the income question offers in Namibia, verbatim, lowest first.
| Band | Yearly income |
|---|---|
| Below the 10th percentile | under NAD 18,000 |
| 10th to 25th percentile | NAD 18,000 – NAD 33,000 |
| 25th to 40th percentile | NAD 33,000 – NAD 50,000 |
| 40th to 55th percentile | NAD 50,000 – NAD 73,000 |
| 55th to 70th percentile | NAD 73,000 – NAD 120,000 |
| 70th to 80th percentile | NAD 120,000 – NAD 170,000 |
| 80th to 90th percentile | NAD 170,000 – NAD 290,000 |
| 90th to 95th percentile | NAD 290,000 – NAD 480,000 |
| 95th to 98th percentile | NAD 480,000 – NAD 840,000 |
| 98th to 99th percentile | NAD 840,000 – NAD 1,100,000 |
| Top 1% | NAD 1,100,000 or more |
Per earner. The source publishes household consumption divided by everyone in the household; the labels multiply it by 3.33, the people one worker's income stands for in Namibia, so a person can place their own income.
In Namibia 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
- 2002 to 2024
- Survey-based years
- 0% of covered years
- Nearest survey
- 9 years from 2024
- Age bands
- none published; the all-ages row answers
- Measured on
- consumption
- Currency
- NAD (NAD)
Why: the nearest measured survey is 9 years from the reference year.
What a reading in Namibia 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 Namibia itself.
- Your ground: both incomes with consumer prices in Namibia taken out, against how the middle of the distribution moved over the same year.
- Nothing is compared across borders. A reading in Namibia is measured against Namibia 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.