Income percentiles in Sao Tome and Principe
Where each yearly income band starts in Sao Tome and Principe, in STN, and what a reading there measures.
Reference data version 2026.4, reference year 2024.
Three cut-offs
- Bottom tenth
- under STN 130,000 a year
- Top tenth
- from STN 710,000 a year
- Top hundredth
- from STN 2,100,000 a year
The middle of the distribution, the 40th to 55th percentile, is STN 240,000 – STN 300,000 a year.
Every band
The 11 bands the income question offers in Sao Tome and Principe, verbatim, lowest first.
| Band | Yearly income |
|---|---|
| Below the 10th percentile | under STN 130,000 |
| 10th to 25th percentile | STN 130,000 – STN 180,000 |
| 25th to 40th percentile | STN 180,000 – STN 240,000 |
| 40th to 55th percentile | STN 240,000 – STN 300,000 |
| 55th to 70th percentile | STN 300,000 – STN 400,000 |
| 70th to 80th percentile | STN 400,000 – STN 490,000 |
| 80th to 90th percentile | STN 490,000 – STN 710,000 |
| 90th to 95th percentile | STN 710,000 – STN 1,000,000 |
| 95th to 98th percentile | STN 1,000,000 – STN 1,700,000 |
| 98th to 99th percentile | STN 1,700,000 – STN 2,100,000 |
| Top 1% | STN 2,100,000 or more |
Per earner. The source publishes household consumption divided by everyone in the household; the labels multiply it by 7.56, the people one worker's income stands for in Sao Tome and Principe, so a person can place their own income.
In Sao Tome and Principe 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
- 1996 to 2024
- Survey-based years
- 7% of covered years
- Nearest survey
- 7 years from 2024
- Age bands
- none published; the all-ages row answers
- Measured on
- consumption
- Currency
- STN (STN)
Why: the nearest measured survey is 7 years from the reference year.
What a reading in Sao Tome and Principe 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 Sao Tome and Principe itself.
- Your ground: both incomes with consumer prices in Sao Tome and Principe taken out, against how the middle of the distribution moved over the same year.
- Nothing is compared across borders. A reading in Sao Tome and Principe is measured against Sao Tome and Principe 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.