Income percentiles in Nicaragua
Where each yearly income band starts in Nicaragua, in NIO, and what a reading there measures.
Reference data version 2026.4, reference year 2024.
Three cut-offs
- Bottom tenth
- under NIO 52,000 a year
- Top tenth
- from NIO 340,000 a year
- Top hundredth
- from NIO 1,200,000 a year
The middle of the distribution, the 40th to 55th percentile, is NIO 110,000 – NIO 140,000 a year.
Every band
The 11 bands the income question offers in Nicaragua, verbatim, lowest first.
| Band | Yearly income |
|---|---|
| Below the 10th percentile | under NIO 52,000 |
| 10th to 25th percentile | NIO 52,000 – NIO 78,000 |
| 25th to 40th percentile | NIO 78,000 – NIO 110,000 |
| 40th to 55th percentile | NIO 110,000 – NIO 140,000 |
| 55th to 70th percentile | NIO 140,000 – NIO 180,000 |
| 70th to 80th percentile | NIO 180,000 – NIO 240,000 |
| 80th to 90th percentile | NIO 240,000 – NIO 340,000 |
| 90th to 95th percentile | NIO 340,000 – NIO 510,000 |
| 95th to 98th percentile | NIO 510,000 – NIO 810,000 |
| 98th to 99th percentile | NIO 810,000 – NIO 1,200,000 |
| Top 1% | NIO 1,200,000 or more |
Per earner. The source publishes household income divided by everyone in the household; the labels multiply it by 2.24, the people one worker's income stands for in Nicaragua, so a person can place their own income.
What the data rests on
- Confidence
- Low
- Years covered
- 1999 to 2024
- Survey-based years
- 15% of covered years
- Nearest survey
- 10 years from 2024
- Age bands
- none published; the all-ages row answers
- Measured on
- income
- Currency
- NIO (NIO)
Why: the nearest measured survey is 10 years from the reference year.
What a reading in Nicaragua 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 Nicaragua itself.
- Your ground: both incomes with consumer prices in Nicaragua taken out, against how the middle of the distribution moved over the same year.
- Nothing is compared across borders. A reading in Nicaragua is measured against Nicaragua 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.