In the third quarter of 2024, the top ten percent of earners in the United States held over ** percent of total wealth. This is fairly consistent with the second quarter of 2024. Comparatively, the wealth of the bottom ** percent of earners has been slowly increasing since the start of the *****, though remains low. Wealth distribution in the United States by generation can be found here.
In the first quarter of 2021, the top one percent in the U.S. owned **** percent of all stocks and mutual funds, while the bottom ** percent owned **** percent. However, **** percent of total debt was owed by the bottom ** percent, compared to the **** percent of debt owed by the top one percent.
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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.
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United States - Share of Total Net Worth Held by the Top 1% (99th to 100th Wealth Percentiles) was 30.80000 % of Aggregate in January of 2025, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, United States - Share of Total Net Worth Held by the Top 1% (99th to 100th Wealth Percentiles) reached a record high of 31.10000 in April of 2021 and a record low of 22.50000 in July of 1990. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for United States - Share of Total Net Worth Held by the Top 1% (99th to 100th Wealth Percentiles) - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on July of 2025.
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.
In 2021, ****percent of French households had a net wealth exceeding 633,200 euros, and ** percent had a net wealth exceeding 394,300 euros. Conversely, ****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.
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In 2021, the poorest 10 percent of French households owned net assets worth ***** euros maximum, while the richest 10 percent owned assets worth ******* euros minimum. In comparison, the wealth of the richest one percent was worth at least **** million euros.
In Brazil, from the total national wealth share in 2021, nearly 80 percent belonged to the top ten percent. Almost half of Brazil's wealth was held by top one percent. On the other hand, the bottom 50 percent had a total of -0.4 percent, that is, on average, this group had more debts than assets. That year, the average personal wealth of the bottom 50 percent was valued at -300 euros.
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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.
The table only covers individuals who have some liability to Income Tax. The percentile points have been independently calculated on total income before tax and total income after tax.
These statistics are classified as accredited official statistics.
You can find more information about these statistics and collated tables for the latest and previous tax years on the Statistics about personal incomes page.
Supporting documentation on the methodology used to produce these statistics is available in the release for each tax year.
Note: comparisons over time may be affected by changes in methodology. Notably, there was a revision to the grossing factors in the 2018 to 2019 publication, which is discussed in the commentary and supporting documentation for that tax year. Further details, including a summary of significant methodological changes over time, data suitability and coverage, are included in the Background Quality Report.
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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.
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Indonesia ID: Households: Liabilities and Net Worth: Liabilities data was reported at 2,940,917,221.334 IDR mn in 2021. This records an increase from the previous number of 2,734,623,817.416 IDR mn for 2020. Indonesia ID: Households: Liabilities and Net Worth: Liabilities data is updated yearly, averaging 2,458,584,226.415 IDR mn from Dec 2014 (Median) to 2021, with 8 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 2,940,917,221.334 IDR mn in 2021 and a record low of 1,656,185,396.591 IDR mn in 2014. Indonesia ID: Households: Liabilities and Net Worth: Liabilities data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by International Monetary Fund. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Indonesia – Table ID.IMF.FSI: 2006 Methodology: Sectoral Financial Statement: Balance Sheet: Annual.
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In the third quarter of 2024, the top ten percent of earners in the United States held over ** percent of total wealth. This is fairly consistent with the second quarter of 2024. Comparatively, the wealth of the bottom ** percent of earners has been slowly increasing since the start of the *****, though remains low. Wealth distribution in the United States by generation can be found here.