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Where Do I Stand?

See roughly how your income and net worth compare to India and the world — built from published research, since no official individual percentile data exists for either.

Annual Income
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= ₹15.00 Lakh per year, before tax
Net Worth
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= ₹50.00 Lakh — everything you own minus everything you owe. Try the Net Worth Calculator if you need to work this out first.
India Income
Top 3.7%
Estimated to earn more than ~96% of Indian adults.
India Net Worth
Top 20%
Estimated to be wealthier than ~80% of Indian adults.
World Income
Top 17%
Estimated to earn more than ~83% of the world's population (PPP-adjusted).
World Net Worth
Top 26%
Estimated to be wealthier than ~74% of the world's adults.
💡 These are estimates, not exact rankings. Real income and wealth distributions have long tails and thin data at the very top, and India in particular has no official individual-level percentile table — different credible sources can disagree by 2–3x on where exactly the "top 1%" line sits. Treat this as a rough sense of scale, not a precise rank.
Data Sources & Method
India income & wealth — World Inequality Lab, "Income and Wealth Inequality in India, 1922-2023: The Rise of the Billionaire Raj" (Bharti, Chancel, Piketty, Somanchi, 2024) — see also the WID India country page — cross-checked against PLFS 2023-24 for income. World income — World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) Percentiles dataset, 2024 update, 2021 PPP-adjusted dollars. World net worth — UBS Global Wealth Report 2024/2025. Each curve above is built from just 5 published anchor points (10th/50th/90th/99th/99.9th percentile) and log-interpolated between them — the same approach public World-Bank-based percentile calculators use — so results between anchors are smoother estimates, not directly sourced figures. World figures are converted to rupees at an approximate ₹88/$1.
Frequently Asked Questions
How accurate is this?
It's a rough estimate, not an exact rank. Neither India nor the world publishes an official, individual-level percentile table for income or net worth — every calculator like this one, including the well-known global ones, works from a handful of published research anchor points and interpolates between them. Credible sources can disagree by 2–3x on exactly where the 'top 1%' line sits, especially for wealth, so treat the result as a sense of scale rather than a precise ranking.
Why do my India and World percentiles look so different?
India's income and wealth are low by global standards even though inequality within India is high — so a income or net worth that's comfortably 'upper middle class' by Indian standards can land much lower in the global distribution, and vice versa for someone near the Indian median (who may still be ahead of a large share of the world's population once purchasing power is accounted for).
Where do the numbers come from?
India figures are based on the World Inequality Lab's 2024 paper on income and wealth inequality in India (1922–2023), cross-checked against PLFS 2023-24 for income. World income figures use the World Bank's Poverty and Inequality Platform (2024 update, PPP-adjusted). World net worth figures use the UBS Global Wealth Report. See the 'Data Sources & Method' section on the page for the full methodology.
Should I enter my personal income and net worth, or my household's?
This calculator is built around individual (per-adult) figures, matching how the underlying research reports its numbers. If you enter household totals instead, your percentile will look higher than it really is for an individual — for a household of multiple earners, dividing your total by the number of adults in it before entering will give a more comparable estimate.
Is my data stored or shared?
No. Every number you enter stays in your browser and is only used to calculate the percentiles shown on screen — nothing is saved, uploaded, or sent to WealthMetric or anyone else.
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