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.

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 Q4 2024 about net worth, wealth, percentile, Net, and USA.

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 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.

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 Net Worth Held by the 90th to 99th Wealth Percentiles (WFRBLN09053) from Q3 1989 to Q4 2024 about net worth, wealth, percentile, Net, and USA.

United States - Share of Total Net Worth Held by the Bottom 50% (1st to 50th Wealth Percentiles) was 2.50000 % of Aggregate in October of 2024, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, United States - Share of Total Net Worth Held by the Bottom 50% (1st to 50th Wealth Percentiles) reached a record high of 4.30000 in April of 1991 and a record low of 0.30000 in April of 2010. 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 Bottom 50% (1st to 50th Wealth Percentiles) - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on May of 2025.

United States - Total Net Worth Held by the Top 1% (99th to 100th Wealth Percentiles) was 49457457.00000 Mil. of $ in October of 2024, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, United States - Total Net Worth Held by the Top 1% (99th to 100th Wealth Percentiles) reached a record high of 49457457.00000 in October of 2024 and a record low of 4884028.00000 in July of 1989. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for United States - Total Net Worth Held by the Top 1% (99th to 100th Wealth Percentiles) - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on May of 2025.

United States - Share of Total Net Worth Held by the 50th to 90th Wealth Percentiles was 30.30000 % of Aggregate in October of 2024, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, United States - Share of Total Net Worth Held by the 50th to 90th Wealth Percentiles reached a record high of 36.10000 in July of 1992 and a record low of 27.60000 in October of 2021. 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 50th to 90th Wealth Percentiles - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on June of 2025.

In the first quarter of 2024, 51.8 percent of the total wealth in the United States was owned by members of the baby boomer generation. In comparison, millennials own around 9.4 percent of total wealth in the U.S. In terms of population distribution, there is almost an equal share of millennials and baby boomers in the United States.

This statistic presents the distribution of investable assets of the ultra high net worth investors in the United States in 2014. In that year, 13 percent of the financial assets of the U.S. UHNW investors were held in cash and liquid assets.

United States - Share of Financial Assets Held by the Top 1% (99th to 100th Wealth Percentiles) was 34.70000 % of Aggregate in October of 2024, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, United States - Share of Financial Assets Held by the Top 1% (99th to 100th Wealth Percentiles) reached a record high of 35.40000 in October of 2021 and a record low of 26.50000 in July of 1990. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for United States - Share of Financial Assets Held by the Top 1% (99th to 100th Wealth Percentiles) - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on May of 2025.

Graph and download economic data for Household Count in the 50th to 90th Wealth Percentiles (WFRBLN40301) from Q3 1989 to Q4 2024 about wealth, percentile, households, 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.

In 2023, just over 50 percent of Americans had an annual household income that was less than 75,000 U.S. dollars. The median household income was 80,610 U.S. dollars in 2023. Income and wealth in the United States After the economic recession in 2009, income inequality in the U.S. is more prominent across many metropolitan areas. The Northeast region is regarded as one of the wealthiest in the country. Maryland, New Jersey, and Massachusetts were among the states with the highest median household income in 2020. In terms of income by race and ethnicity, the average income of Asian households was 94,903 U.S. dollars in 2020, while the median income for Black households was around half of that figure. What is the U.S. poverty threshold? The U.S. Census Bureau annually updates its list of poverty levels. Preliminary estimates show that the average poverty threshold for a family of four people was 26,500 U.S. dollars in 2021, which is around 100 U.S. dollars less than the previous year. There were an estimated 37.9 million people in poverty across the United States in 2021, which was around 11.6 percent of the population. Approximately 19.5 percent of those in poverty were Black, while 8.2 percent were white.

Graph and download economic data for Net Worth Held by the Bottom 50% (1st to 50th Wealth Percentiles) (WFRBLB50107) from Q3 1989 to Q4 2024 about net worth, wealth, percentile, Net, and USA.

Between December 2019 and 2021, the top one percent of earners accumulated 63 percent of all new wealth worldwide. This is more than six times more wealth than accumulated by the bottom 90 percent over the same time period.

Global wealth distribution Newly generated wealth landing in the hands of the few is not a new story and has been the focus of international development policy for many years. Looking at a regional level, Latin America was the region with the starkest distribution of wealth. In this region, 77 percent of the wealth was held by the richest 10 percent in 2021, and only 0.5 percent held by the poorest 50 percent. At an individual level, around 2.82 billion adults worldwide had a net worth of less than 10,000 U.S. dollars in 2021.

Billionaires In 2021, the highest concentration of billionaires could be found in North America. However, China had the largest number of billionaires in its population in 2022, with most living in Beijing. Looking at wealth distribution amongst billionaires themselves, 20 people had fortunes of 50 billion U.S. dollars or more, but the majority of billionaires had a personal fortune between two and five billion U.S. dollars.

In December 2022, Elon Musk slipped from the top spot of richest people on Earth. The number one spot was taken by French magnate, Bernard Arnault of Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton.

United States - Share of Financial Assets Held by the 90th to 99th Wealth Percentiles was 37.10000 % of Aggregate in October of 2024, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, United States - Share of Financial Assets Held by the 90th to 99th Wealth Percentiles reached a record high of 39.90000 in January of 2009 and a record low of 33.50000 in July of 1995. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for United States - Share of Financial Assets Held by the 90th to 99th Wealth Percentiles - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on June of 2025.

United States - Real Estate Held by the Top 1% (99th to 100th Wealth Percentiles) was 6436830.00000 Mil. of $ in October of 2024, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, United States - Real Estate Held by the Top 1% (99th to 100th Wealth Percentiles) reached a record high of 6519075.00000 in April of 2024 and a record low of 592283.00000 in July of 1989. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for United States - Real Estate Held by the Top 1% (99th to 100th Wealth Percentiles) - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on May of 2025.

United States - Debt Securities Held by the Top 1% (99th to 100th Wealth Percentiles) was 2227477.00000 Mil. of $ in October of 2024, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, United States - Debt Securities Held by the Top 1% (99th to 100th Wealth Percentiles) reached a record high of 2860915.00000 in October of 2012 and a record low of 586667.00000 in July of 1989. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for United States - Debt Securities Held by the Top 1% (99th to 100th Wealth Percentiles) - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on May of 2025.