Graph and download economic data for Net Worth Held by the Top 0.1% (99.9th to 100th Wealth Percentiles) (WFRBLTP1246) from Q3 1989 to Q1 2025 about net worth, wealth, percentile, Net, and USA.

In 2023, roughly 1.49 billion adults worldwide had a net worth of less than 10,000 U.S. dollars. By comparison, 58 million adults had a net worth of more than one million U.S. dollars in the same year. Wealth distribution The distribution of wealth is an indicator of economic inequality. The United Nations says that wealth includes the sum of natural, human, and physical assets. Wealth is not synonymous with income, however, because having a large income can be depleted if one has significant expenses. In 2023, nearly 1,700 billionaires had a total wealth between one to two billion U.S. dollars. Wealth worldwide China had the highest number of billionaires in 2023, with the United States following behind. That same year, New York had the most billionaires worldwide.

In the first quarter of 2025, almost two-thirds percent of the total wealth in the United States was owned by the top 10 percent of earners. In comparison, the lowest 50 percent of earners only owned 2.5 percent of the total wealth. Income inequality in the U.S. Despite the idea that the United States is a country where hard work and pulling yourself up by your bootstraps will inevitably lead to success, this is often not the case. In 2023, 7.4 percent of U.S. households had an annual income under 15,000 U.S. dollars. With such a small percentage of people in the United States owning such a vast majority of the country’s wealth, the gap between the rich and poor in America remains stark. The top one percent The United States was the country with the most billionaires in the world in 2025. Elon Musk, with a net worth of 342 billion U.S. dollars, was among the richest people in the United States in 2025. Over the past 50 years, the CEO-to-worker compensation ratio has exploded, causing the gap between rich and poor to grow, with some economists theorizing that this gap is the largest it has been since right before the Great Depression.

In 2022, the majority of Indian adults had a wealth of 10,000 U.S. dollars or less. On the other hand, about *** percent were worth more than *********** dollars that year. India The Republic of India is one of the world’s largest and most economically powerful states. India gained independence from Great Britain on August 15, 1947, after having been under their power for 200 years. With a population of about *** billion people, it was the second most populous country in the world. Of that *** billion, about **** million lived in New Delhi, the capital. Wealth inequality India suffers from extreme income inequality. It is estimated that the top 10 percent of the population holds ** percent of the national wealth. Billionaire fortune has increase sporadically in the last years whereas minimum wages have remain stunted.

Over ** million Russians aged 20 years and above, or approximately ** percent of the total adult population of the country, had wealth under 10,000 U.S. dollars in 2022. To compare, on average around the globe, the share of residents belonging to this wealth range was measured at **** percent in the same year. Economic inequality in Russia The latest available data by the World Bank recorded Russia’s Gini index, used as a measurement of income or wealth inequality, at **. The organization classified Russia as an upper-middle-income economy. Over ** percent of Russians considered themselves belonging to the middle class in 2020. HNWIs in Russia Approximately *** percent of Russian adults, or ******* residents, owned over *********** U.S. dollars, or were referred to as high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs). In 2021, the total wealth of the adult population in the country reached nearly *** trillion U.S. dollars. A significant portion of it belonged to roughly ***** ultra-high-net-worth individuals (UHNWIs) whose net worth exceeded ** billion U.S. dollars.

In 2020, Italy counted approximately *** million individuals boasting a wealth worth over one million U.S. dollars. Individuals in this wealth bracket are forecasted to reach nearly two million in 2025, an increase of approximately ** percent compared to 2020. When compared to other Western European countries, the number of individuals worth over five million U.S. dollars is less impressive. France, for example, counted about *** million individuals in that wealth bracket in 2019.

Wealthiest individuals in Italy

In 2019, Giovanni Ferrero, the CEO of the Italian confectionary company Ferrero S.p.A., lead the ranking of the wealthiest individuals in Italy published yearly by Forbes. With a total net worth estimated at **** billion U.S. dollars, Ferrero overshadowed Leonardo Del Vecchio, founder of Luxottica, whose fortune amounted to **** U.S. dollars.

Wealthiest individuals in the world

According to the Forbes’ ranking, in 2019, Giovanni Ferrero was the **** wealthiest person in the world and Leonardo Del Vecchio ranked **** in the list. Despite their massive fortune, no one can compete with Jeff Bezos. For the second year in a row, the founder of Amazon dominated the Forbes’ ranking: his wealth was estimated at over *** billion dollars in 2019.

Data and insights on Wealth Distribution in India - share of wealth, average wealth, HNIs, wealth inequality GINI, and comparison with global peers.

Wealth Segmentation of U.S. ZIP Codes Based on IRS Data

This dataset provides a wealth-tier classification of U.S. ZIP codes for high income brackets using IRS income data and multivariate KMeans clustering. It can help with regional targeting, CRM enrichment, market analysis, or any data science task that benefits from understanding high income distribution across the U.S.

💡 Source

• IRS SOI ZIP Code Data (open source)
• Aggregated across AGI brackets (stub 3–6)

🧠 What’s Inside

Each row represents a ZIP code with:

• AGI (A00100), Total Income (A00200)
• Capital Gains, Business Income, Tax Paid
• Cluster assignment (0–2)
• Wealth Tier label: Low, Medium, or High

The cluster assignments are refined using distance to cluster centroids in normalized feature space to improve accuracy.

💼 Use Cases

• Segmenting markets for B2B/B2C outreach
• CRM lead enrichment
• Territory planning and resource allocation
• Visualization and dashboard overlays

📬 Contact

Created by Namrata Nyamagoudar(LinkedIn) for open-source analysis and enrichment use cases.

Residents Travel Survey: Travellers by household income, according to destination and length of trip. Annual. National.

This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (1 item: Canada); Statistics (4 items: Value; Distribution of value; Value per household; Value per consumption unit); Characteristics (21 items: All households; Lowest income quintile; Second income quintile; Third income quintile; ...); Income, consumption and savings (23 items: Household disposable income; Compensation of employees; Net mixed income; Property income received; ...).

Residents Travel Survey: Non-travellers by household income, according to reasons for not travelling. Annual. National.

This statistic illustrates the number of millionaire (HNWI, UHNWI) and billionaire individuals in Turkey in selected years from 2014 to 2021, with a forecast for 2026, by wealth bracket. The population of individuals who had a personal wealth of over *********** U.S. dollars fluctuated between 2014 and 2021 but has been forecast to grow towards 2026.

U.S. Income Tax - Highest Bracket Rates - Historical chart and current data through 2018.

Living Conditions Survey (LCS): Average net annual income (the year prior to that of the interview) per person and consumption unit, by relationship with economic activity (persons aged 16 years old and over). Annual. National.

Living Conditions Survey (LCS): Income per person and consumption unit, by relationship with economic activity (persons aged 16 years old and over). Annual. National.

In the 3 years to March 2021, black households were most likely out of all ethnic groups to have a weekly income of under £600.

Income of individuals by age group, sex and income source, Canada, provinces and selected census metropolitan areas, annual.

U.S. Income Tax Rates - Lowest Bracket - Historical chart and current data through 2018.