The median income is not a very good measure at all, you would need more quantiles to capture the distribution.
This metric is much better at capturing the distribution than the average income.
It's true that the mode is not at the very bottom of the distribution, but it is much more aligned with the lower tail than with the upper tail.
And I don't know why you mistrust this figure so much, it's based on this World Bank dataset, which you can verify yourself: https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/search/dataset/0064304/100...
The median income is not a very good measure at all, you would need more quantiles to capture the distribution.
This metric is much better at capturing the distribution than the average income.
It's true that the mode is not at the very bottom of the distribution, but it is much more aligned with the lower tail than with the upper tail.
And I don't know why you mistrust this figure so much, it's based on this World Bank dataset, which you can verify yourself: https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/search/dataset/0064304/100...