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Income in Slovenia

The median income in Slovenia is about $44 a day per person (2021 PPP dollars) — richer than 89% of everyone alive. Half of Slovenia lives on less than that.

The world's own median person — about $7.73 a day — would stand in the bottom 1% of Slovenia.

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The curve

$1$10$100 median

Daily income per person, log scale, PPP dollars — the same curve the machine walks you across.

What it takes to stand where

Take-home income per person, in today's EUR, at each point on the curve of Slovenia (the machine's convention: household take-home divided by the people it supports).

Richer than…per year, per personper day (PPP $)
10% of Slovenia€6,969$26
25% of Slovenia€9,041$34
50% of Slovenia€11,798$44
75% of Slovenia€15,794$59
90% of Slovenia€20,651$77
99% of Slovenia€39,418$147

Rounded, never inflated: the machine floors "richer than" claims.

The four levels in Slovenia

How much of Slovenia and of the world lives on each of four income levels. The cuts are the World Bank's $3.00 (international poverty line) and $8.30 (upper-middle-income line), both 2021 PPP; the top cut, $33, is the machine's own, four times the $8.30 line. The objects are what an income on each level tends to buy across the world's surveys — not a description of any one country.

Levelper day (PPP $)What tends to come with it, worldwideSloveniaWorld
Level 1under $3.00a fire to cook on, water carried home from the well, everywhere on foot<1%13%
Level 2$3.00–$8.30a bicycle, a gas canister for the stove, a tap within walking distance<1%39%
Level 3$8.30–$33a motorbike, a gas stove, a bank account24%32%
Level 4$33+a car, a fridge, hot water from the tap76%15%

About 76% of Slovenia lives on Level 4, $33 a day or more per person; worldwide, roughly one in seven people do.

The line that moved

Fewer than 1% of Slovenia lived under the $3.00 line at every survey since 1993 — this is a line that moved long before the data begins.

50% 0 1990 today

Share of Slovenia under $3.00 a day (2021 prices) at each national survey, World Bank PIP via Our World in Data; the faint line is the world's.

Worldwide, the share under the World Bank's $3.00-a-day line fell from about 43% in 1990 to about 10% today (Our World in Data; the latest years are the Bank's nowcast). Where the lift came, it came the unglamorous way: wages, harvests, workshops.

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Where this comes from

The World Bank's Poverty and Inequality Platform percentile distribution for Slovenia (survey year 2023), in 2021 PPP dollars; incomes typed in today's money are deflated to 2021 prices with the national CPI and converted with the 2021 consumption-PPP factor. Snapshot fetched September 2026. Full methodology & honesty rules.

Neighbours on the curve

The countries whose median income sits nearest to Slovenia's — and a few far from it, for scale.

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