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Wealth to join the top 1%

Net wealth per adult needed to enter the country's wealthiest 1%. Wealth distributions are modeled estimates nearly everywhere — treat as indicative, not measured.

Darker = better (higher), by rank · 89 countries · World Inequality Database · tap a country to pin it here

Countries

89 · World Inequality Database
  1. 1stSwitzerland5,887,751
  2. 2ndTaiwan5,768,639
  3. 3rdUnited States5,115,455
  4. 4thIreland4,817,767
  5. 5thAustralia4,809,822
  6. 6thIceland4,763,050
  7. 7thBelgium4,613,912
  8. 8thSouth Korea4,325,456
  9. 9thNew Zealand3,903,753
  10. 10thLuxembourg3,884,937
  11. 11thGermany3,854,252
  12. 12thUnited Kingdom3,386,415
  13. 13thSweden3,350,401
  14. 14thFrance3,299,649
  15. 15thItaly3,295,712
  16. 16thNetherlands3,214,650
  17. 17thCanada3,180,528
  18. 18thPortugal3,040,415
  19. 19thAustria3,016,389
  20. 20thDenmark2,973,277
  21. 21stSpain2,967,829
  22. 22ndMalta2,966,392
  23. 23rdCyprus2,341,908
  24. 24thGreece2,177,165
  25. 25thNorway2,049,229
  26. 26thPoland1,939,019
  27. 27thSlovenia1,913,970
  28. 28thUruguay1,871,528
  29. 29thCzechia1,865,734
  30. 30thRomania1,861,096
  31. 31stFinland1,843,648
  32. 32ndCroatia1,786,587
  33. 33rdEstonia1,761,940
  34. 34thChina1,612,289
  35. 35thLithuania1,560,384
  36. 36thCosta Rica1,445,640
  37. 37thSlovakia1,434,305
  38. 38thArgentina1,368,171
  39. 39thLatvia1,347,294
  40. 40thRussia1,345,866
  41. 41stChile1,327,401
  42. 42ndTürkiye1,284,593
  43. 43rdMalaysia1,230,163
  44. 44thDominican Republic1,118,089
  45. 45thAlbania1,077,253
  46. 46thBulgaria891,509
  47. 47thSerbia886,610
  48. 48thBrazil854,285
  49. 49thMexico843,805
  50. 50thColombia817,719
  51. 51stIran772,110
  52. 52ndGeorgia766,079
  53. 53rdThailand760,913
  54. 54thEgypt753,256
  55. 55thPeru736,458
  56. 56thEcuador626,278
  57. 57thIraq598,476
  58. 58thEquatorial Guinea556,267
  59. 59thTunisia513,733
  60. 60thEl Salvador486,628
  61. 61stLebanon460,524
  62. 62ndNigeria415,078
  63. 63rdKyrgyzstan397,257
  64. 64thIndia396,695
  65. 65thMauritania388,392
  66. 66thZimbabwe374,058
  67. 67thEthiopia315,782
  68. 68thKenya294,014
  69. 69thIvory Coast293,956
  70. 70thCameroon260,636
  71. 71stBenin251,132
  72. 72ndUganda236,827
  73. 73rdMali205,494
  74. 74thGambia200,670
  75. 75thSierra Leone191,030
  76. 76thSenegal183,204
  77. 77thChad176,239
  78. 78thZambia168,701
  79. 79thBurkina Faso161,874
  80. 80thGuinea-Bissau142,584
  81. 81stRwanda139,690
  82. 82ndTogo134,746
  83. 83rdMalawi131,113
  84. 84thDR Congo107,803
  85. 85thMadagascar106,137
  86. 86thCentral African Republic98,189
  87. 87thMozambique95,557
  88. 88thNiger85,448
  89. 89thBurundi60,912

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