Income percentiles in Timor-Leste
Where each yearly income band starts in Timor-Leste, in USD, and what a reading there measures.
Reference data version 2026.4, reference year 2024.
Three cut-offs
- Bottom tenth
- under $948 a year
- Top tenth
- from $3,200 a year
- Top hundredth
- from $6,700 a year
The middle of the distribution, the 40th to 55th percentile, is $1,500 – $1,700 a year.
Every band
The 11 bands the income question offers in Timor-Leste, verbatim, lowest first.
| Band | Yearly income |
|---|---|
| Below the 10th percentile | under $948 |
| 10th to 25th percentile | $948 – $1,200 |
| 25th to 40th percentile | $1,200 – $1,500 |
| 40th to 55th percentile | $1,500 – $1,700 |
| 55th to 70th percentile | $1,700 – $2,100 |
| 70th to 80th percentile | $2,100 – $2,500 |
| 80th to 90th percentile | $2,500 – $3,200 |
| 90th to 95th percentile | $3,200 – $4,000 |
| 95th to 98th percentile | $4,000 – $5,400 |
| 98th to 99th percentile | $5,400 – $6,700 |
| Top 1% | $6,700 or more |
Per earner. The source publishes household consumption divided by everyone in the household; the labels multiply it by 2.29, the people one worker's income stands for in Timor-Leste, so a person can place their own income.
In Timor-Leste the distribution is measured on consumption, not income. The two are not interchangeable, and the multiplier does not turn one into the other.
What the data rests on
- Confidence
- Low
- Years covered
- 2002 to 2024
- Survey-based years
- 4% of covered years
- Nearest survey
- 10 years from 2024
- Age bands
- none published; the all-ages row answers
- Measured on
- consumption
- Currency
- USD ($)
Why: the nearest measured survey is 10 years from the reference year.
What a reading in Timor-Leste 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 Timor-Leste itself.
- Your ground: both incomes with consumer prices in Timor-Leste taken out, against how the middle of the distribution moved over the same year.
- Nothing is compared across borders. A reading in Timor-Leste is measured against Timor-Leste 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.