Graph and download economic data for Minimum Wealth Cutoff for the Top 0.1% (99.9th to 100th Wealth Percentiles) (WFRBLTP1311) 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 Q2 2025 about net worth, wealth, percentile, Net, and USA.

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.

Graph and download economic data for Household Count in the Top 0.1% (99.9th to 100th Wealth Percentiles) (WFRBLTP1310) from Q3 1989 to Q2 2025 about wealth, percentile, households, and USA.

Graph and download economic data for Share of Total Assets Held by the Top 0.1% (99.9th to 100th Wealth Percentiles) (WFRBSTP1281) from Q3 1989 to Q2 2025 about shares, wealth, percentile, assets, and USA.

In 2022, the majority of Indian adults had a wealth of 10,000 U.S. dollars or less. On the other hand, about 0.1 percent were worth more than one million 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 1.4 billion people, it was the second most populous country in the world. Of that 1.4 billion, about 28.5 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 77 percent of the national wealth. Billionaire fortune has increase sporadically in the last years whereas minimum wages have remain stunted.

Graph and download economic data for Corporate Equities And Mutual Fund Shares Held by the Top 0.1% (99.9th to 100th Wealth Percentiles) (WFRBLTP1232) from Q3 1989 to Q1 2025 about shares, mutual funds, wealth, equity, percentile, corporate, and USA.

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.

The average pre-tax income of the top ten percent earners in Spain was over 120,000 euros at purchasing power parity (PPP) as of 2024, 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 2024, 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 Panama stood at 53.5 percent in 2023. Between 1979 and 2023, the percentage of income held rose by 0.1 percentage points, though the increase followed an uneven trajectory rather than a consistent upward trend.

At the end of 2020, there were nearly *** thousand dollar-millionaires in India. This was a significant decrease compared to over *** thousand millionaires at the end of the previous year. In total, there were nearly ** million dollar-millionaires worldwide in 2020. The highest density of millionaires had been recorded in Switzerland with nearly ** percent, whereas India had a density of *** 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 ** million U.S. dollars are considered ultra-high-net-worth individuals (UHNWI). In 2020, these roughly six thousand individuals owned approximately *** 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 ***** 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 statistic presents the annual income distribution of the influencers who earned from marketing activities on Adpick platform in South Korea in 2018. As of December 2018, only the top 0.1 percent of the influencers were able to earn more than 100 million South Korean won of income that year.

In 2023, the gross domestic product per capita in London was 63,618 British pounds, compared with 37,135 pounds per capita for the United Kingdom as a whole. Apart from London, the only other region of the UK that had a greater GDP per capita than the UK average was South East England, at 38,004 pounds per capita. By contrast, North East England had the lowest GDP per capita among UK regions, at 26,347 pounds. Regional imbalance in the UK economy? London's overall GDP in 2022 was over 508 billion British pounds, which accounted for almost a quarter of the overall GDP of the United Kingdom. South East England had the second-largest regional economy in the country, with a GDP of almost 341.7 billion British pounds. Furthermore, these two regions were the only ones that had higher levels of productivity (as measured by output per hour worked) than the UK average. While recent governments have recognized regional inequality as a major challenge facing the country, it may take several years for any initiatives to bear fruit. The creation of regional metro mayors across England is one of the earliest attempts at giving regions and cities in particular more power over spending in their regions than they currently have. UK economy growth slow in late 2024 After ending 2023 with two quarters of negative growth, the UK economy grew at the reasonable rate of 0.8 percent and 0.4 percent in the first and second quarters of the year. This was, however, followed by zero growth in the third quarter, and by just 0.1 percent in the last quarter of the year. Other economic indicators, such as the inflation rate, fell within the expected range in 2024, but have started to rise again, with a rate of three percent recorded in January 2025. While unemployment has witnessed a slight uptick since 2022, it is still at quite low levels compared with previous years.