Graph and download economic data for Share of Net Worth Held by the 99th to 99.9th Wealth Percentiles (WFRBS99T999273) from Q3 1989 to Q4 2024 about shares, net worth, wealth, percentile, Net, and USA.

In 2022, the average net personal wealth among the most affluent one percent of Spanish population was 3.15 million euros. On the other side, the wealth of bottom 50 percent of the wealth holders in the country was estimated at 17,300 euros. When looking at the evolution of wealth distribution in Spain during the last decades, it can be observed, that the share of wealth held by the least affluent half of the population is now lower than it was at the beginning of the 21th century.

Graph and download economic data for Minimum Wealth Cutoff for the 90th to 99th Wealth Percentiles (WFRBLN09304) from Q3 1989 to Q3 2022 about wealth, percentile, and USA.

In Brazil, the bottom 50 percent had a negative average personal wealth in 2021, which means that the value of their debts exceeded that of their assets. In comparison, in Argentina, average personal wealth of the bottom 50 percent reached 3,500 euros that same year. In stark contrast, the richest one percent in Brazil held an average wealth of 1.79 million euros, revealing the high level of inequality i the country.

In the third quarter of 2024, the top ten percent of earners in the United States held over 67 percent of total wealth. This is fairly consistent with the second quarter of 2024. Comparatively, the wealth of the bottom 50 percent of earners has been slowly increasing since the start of the 2010s, though remains low. Wealth distribution in the United States by generation can be found here.

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.

Graph and download economic data for Household Count in the 90th to 99th Wealth Percentiles (WFRBLN09303) from Q3 1989 to Q4 2024 about wealth, percentile, households, and USA.

This statistic shows the median net worth by in U.S. households by age of householder in 2011. The net worth describes personal assets minus debt. Median denotes the midpoint of a group—in this case the point at which 50 percent of the households have more wealth and 50 percent have less. In 2011, the median net worth of people aged younger than 35 was 6,676 U.S. dollars. This is much less than the median net worth of all householders, which is at approximately 69,000 U.S. dollars.

Graph and download economic data for Share of Net Worth Held by the Bottom 50% (1st to 50th Wealth Percentiles) (WFRBSB50215) from Q3 1989 to Q4 2024 about net worth, wealth, percentile, Net, and USA.

In the 2018 financial year, the 90th percentile in Australia had a household net worth reaching about 2.93 million Australian dollars. By comparison the 10th percentile had a household net worth of 31,400 Australian dollars.

The average personal wealth of the bottom 50 percent in Mexico was valued at -200 euros. That is, on average, people from this group had more debts than assets. On the other hand, the richest one percent held an average wealth of 2.91 million euros in this Latin American country. Similarly, Chilean's average personal wealth of the one percent reached 2.67 million euros that same year.

This table describes the wealth distribution of the sector households in the national accounts over different household groups. Households are identified by main source of income, living situation, household composition, age classes of the head of the household, income class by 20% groups, and net worth class by 20% groups.

Data available from: 2015.

Status of the figures: All data are provisional.

Changes as of October 19th 2023: The figures of 2015-2020 are revised, because national accounts figures are changed due to the revision policy of Statistics Netherlands. Results for 2021 are added to the table.

When will new figures be published? New figures will be released in October 2024.

Household net worth statistics aims to provide a picture of the net worth (wealth) of New Zealanders, by looking at their household assets and liabilities – financial and non-financial.

Household net worth statistics aims to provide a picture of the net worth (wealth) of New Zealanders, by looking at their household assets and liabilities – financial and non-financial.

In 2021, the average personal wealth of the richest one percent in Russia was valued at over 2.5 million euros. In the same year, the bottom 50 percent of the country's population held an average wealth of 3,300 euros, or just over three percent of the total national wealth.

Composition of assets (including Employer Pension Plans valued on a termination basis) and debts held by all family units, by net worth deciles, Canada and geographical regions of Canada.

This table contains 58320 series, with data for years 1999 - 2016 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (20 items: Canada; Atlantic; Newfoundland and Labrador; Prince Edward Island; ...); Assets and debts (27 items: Total assets; Private pension assets; Registered Retirement Savings Plans (RRSPs), Registered Retirement Income Funds (RRIFs), Locked-in Retirement Accounts (LIRAs) and other; Employer-sponsored Registered Pension Plans (EPPs); ...); Net worth quintiles (6 items: Total, all net worth quintiles; Lowest net worth quintile; Second net worth quintile; Middle net worth quintile; ...); Statistics (6 items: Total values; Percentage of total assets or total debts; Number holding asset or debt; Percentage holding asset or debt; ...); Confidence intervals (3 items: Estimate; Lower bound of a 95% confidence interval; Upper bound of a 95% confidence interval).

In 2021, ten percent of French households had a net wealth exceeding 633,200 euros, and 20 percent had a net wealth exceeding 394,300 euros. Conversely, ten percent of households (those in the first decile) had a net worth of less than 3,000 euros.
In the same year, over a third of French people reported having experienced poverty at least once in their lives.

In the 2018 financial year, around 11.9 percent of households in Australia had a net worth between 0 and 50,000 Australian dollars. The next largest groups were households in the 50,000 to less than 100,000 Australian dollars and the 500,000 to 600,000 Australian dollars range.

Australia Household: Net Worth data was reported at 16,884.900 AUD bn in Sep 2024. This records an increase from the previous number of 16,484.000 AUD bn for Jun 2024. Australia Household: Net Worth data is updated quarterly, averaging 5,137.900 AUD bn from Sep 1988 (Median) to Sep 2024, with 145 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 16,884.900 AUD bn in Sep 2024 and a record low of 1,204.100 AUD bn in Sep 1988. Australia Household: Net Worth data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Australian Bureau of Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Australia – Table AU.AB045: SNA08: SESCA08: Balance Sheet: Households.