Income percentiles in South Sudan
Where each yearly income band starts in South Sudan, in SSP, and what a reading there measures.
Reference data version 2026.4, reference year 2024.
Three cut-offs
- Bottom tenth
- under SSP 100,000 a year
- Top tenth
- from SSP 820,000 a year
- Top hundredth
- from SSP 2,000,000 a year
The middle of the distribution, the 40th to 55th percentile, is SSP 240,000 – SSP 320,000 a year.
Every band
The 11 bands the income question offers in South Sudan, verbatim, lowest first.
| Band | Yearly income |
|---|---|
| Below the 10th percentile | under SSP 100,000 |
| 10th to 25th percentile | SSP 100,000 – SSP 180,000 |
| 25th to 40th percentile | SSP 180,000 – SSP 240,000 |
| 40th to 55th percentile | SSP 240,000 – SSP 320,000 |
| 55th to 70th percentile | SSP 320,000 – SSP 450,000 |
| 70th to 80th percentile | SSP 450,000 – SSP 590,000 |
| 80th to 90th percentile | SSP 590,000 – SSP 820,000 |
| 90th to 95th percentile | SSP 820,000 – SSP 1,200,000 |
| 95th to 98th percentile | SSP 1,200,000 – SSP 1,600,000 |
| 98th to 99th percentile | SSP 1,600,000 – SSP 2,000,000 |
| Top 1% | SSP 2,000,000 or more |
Per earner. The source publishes household consumption divided by everyone in the household; the labels multiply it by 2.55, the people one worker's income stands for in South Sudan, so a person can place their own income.
In South Sudan 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
- 2008 to 2024
- Survey-based years
- 6% of covered years
- Nearest survey
- 8 years from 2024
- Age bands
- none published; the all-ages row answers
- Measured on
- consumption
- Currency
- SSP (SSP)
Why: the nearest measured survey is 8 years from the reference year.
What a reading in South Sudan 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 South Sudan itself.
- Your ground: both incomes with consumer prices in South Sudan taken out, against how the middle of the distribution moved over the same year.
- Nothing is compared across borders. A reading in South Sudan is measured against South Sudan 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.