Income percentiles in Suriname
Where each yearly income band starts in Suriname, in SRD, and what a reading there measures.
Reference data version 2026.4, reference year 2024.
Three cut-offs
- Bottom tenth
- under SRD 99,000 a year
- Top tenth
- from SRD 580,000 a year
- Top hundredth
- from SRD 1,600,000 a year
The middle of the distribution, the 40th to 55th percentile, is SRD 210,000 – SRD 260,000 a year.
Every band
The 11 bands the income question offers in Suriname, verbatim, lowest first.
| Band | Yearly income |
|---|---|
| Below the 10th percentile | under SRD 99,000 |
| 10th to 25th percentile | SRD 99,000 – SRD 160,000 |
| 25th to 40th percentile | SRD 160,000 – SRD 210,000 |
| 40th to 55th percentile | SRD 210,000 – SRD 260,000 |
| 55th to 70th percentile | SRD 260,000 – SRD 350,000 |
| 70th to 80th percentile | SRD 350,000 – SRD 430,000 |
| 80th to 90th percentile | SRD 430,000 – SRD 580,000 |
| 90th to 95th percentile | SRD 580,000 – SRD 740,000 |
| 95th to 98th percentile | SRD 740,000 – SRD 1,100,000 |
| 98th to 99th percentile | SRD 1,100,000 – SRD 1,600,000 |
| Top 1% | SRD 1,600,000 or more |
Per earner. The source publishes household consumption divided by everyone in the household; the labels multiply it by 2.70, the people one worker's income stands for in Suriname, so a person can place their own income.
In Suriname 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
- 1981 to 2024
- Survey-based years
- 2% of covered years
- Nearest survey
- 2 years from 2024
- Age bands
- none published; the all-ages row answers
- Measured on
- consumption
- Currency
- SRD (SRD)
Why: part of the price index had to be bridged rather than read from the national series.
Before 1994 the series is quoted in the prices of the currency introduced that year; real change across the switch is exact.
What a reading in Suriname 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 Suriname itself.
- Your ground: both incomes with consumer prices in Suriname taken out, against how the middle of the distribution moved over the same year.
- Nothing is compared across borders. A reading in Suriname is measured against Suriname 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.