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.

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In the first quarter of 2024, 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 follows closely behind China as the country with the most billionaires in the world. Elon Musk alone held around 219 billion U.S. dollars in 2022. 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.

Graph and download economic data for Total Assets Held by the Top 0.1% (99.9th to 100th Wealth Percentiles) (WFRBLTP1227) from Q3 1989 to Q1 2025 about wealth, percentile, assets, and USA.

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In 2024, the top ten percent of households in South Korea owned about **** percent of total household net worth, while households in the lowest wealth decile owned minus *** percent. The average net worth of households in the top wealth decile was about *** billion South Korean won.

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At the end of 2020, there were nearly 700 thousand dollar-millionaires in India. This was a significant decrease compared to over 760 thousand millionaires at the end of the previous year. In total, there were nearly 60 million dollar-millionaires worldwide in 2020. The highest density of millionaires had been recorded in Switzerland with nearly 15 percent, whereas India had a density of 0.1 percent. Persons owning assets worth more than one million U.S. dollars are considered high-net-worth individuals (HNWI).

India’s super-rich Persons owning assets worth more than 30 million U.S. dollars are considered ultra-high-net-worth individuals (UHNWI). In 2020, these roughly six thousand individuals owned approximately 400 billion dollars. By far the richest person in India was Reliance chairmen Mukesh Ambani. His female counterpart was Roshni Nadar Malhotra, CEO of HCL Technologies and daughter of HCL-founder Shiv Nadar.

Wealth with a purpose Shiv Nadar was not only one of the richest Indians in 2020, but he also contributed around seven billion Indian rupees for philanthropic initiatives. He was only topped by Wipro-chairman Azim Premji that year. Through Premji’s donations in that sector, education received the vast majority of philanthropic donations that year. Besides private donations, spending on corporate social responsibility (CSR) has grown as well in recent years.

This table presents income shares, thresholds, tax shares, and total counts of individual Canadian tax filers, with a focus on high income individuals (95% income threshold, 99% threshold, etc.). Income thresholds are based on national threshold values, regardless of selected geography; for example, the number of Nova Scotians in the top 1% will be calculated as the number of taxfiling Nova Scotians whose total income exceeded the 99% national income threshold. Different definitions of income are available in the table namely market, total, and after-tax income, both with and without capital gains.

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.

The average pre-tax income of the top ten percent earners in Spain was over 95,500 euros at purchasing power parity (PPP) as of 2022, almost nine times more than the average income of the bottom half earners. Looking at the distribution of national income in Spain, the earnings of the least affluent half of the population equated to 21 percent of the total country income in 2022, 0.1 percentage points less than one decade earlier. Moreover, the top one percent of earners in Spain accounted for over ten percent of the overall national income.

The percentage of income held by the richest 20 percent of the population in Uruguay saw no significant changes in 2022 in comparison to the previous year 2021 and remained at around 46.7 percent. With a decline of 0.1 percentage points (-0.21 percent), there is no significant change to 2021. These figures refer to the share of total income held by the top fifth of earners in a given population.Find more key insights for the percentage of income held by the richest 20 percent of the population in countries like Argentina and Chile.