Graph and download economic data for Share of Net Worth Held by the Top 0.1% (99.9th to 100th Wealth Percentiles) (WFRBSTP1300) from Q3 1989 to Q1 2025 about shares, net worth, wealth, percentile, Net, and USA.

Graph and download economic data for Households; Net Worth, Level (BOGZ1FL192090005Q) from Q4 1987 to Q1 2025 about net worth, Net, households, and USA.

Over ** million individuals residing in the United States belonged to the global top one percent of ultra-high net worth individuals worldwide in 2022. China ranked second, with over **** million top one percent wealth holders globally. France followed in third.

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.

According to the report, there were around 110,100 super-rich mainland Chinese households who owned wealth of over 100 million yuan as of January 2024, slightly decreased from the previous year.

Graph and download economic data for Households; Net Worth, Transactions (BOGZ1FA192090005A) from 1988 to 2024 about net worth, transactions, Net, households, and USA.

This table shows the distribution of wealth of households. The figures in this table are broken down to components of wealth and different household characteristics.

Data available from: 2006. The population consists of all private households with income on January 1st of the reporting year.

Status of the figures: The figures for 2006 to 2022 are final. The figures for 2023 are preliminary.

The compilation of the figures has been changed in a number of parts from reporting year 2011 compared to previous years: From 2011, more complete information on bank and saving credits and securities is available. All small amounts are also observed from that moment on. As a result, there are more households with these assets. From 2011, more complete information on debts is available. Education loans and loans from banks are fully observed from that moment on. As a result, there are more households with other loans.

Changes as of 1 November 2024: Update with final figures for 2022 and provisional figures for 2023

When will new figures be published? New figures for 2024 will be published in the fall of 2025.

In Europe, the variation in average amounts of financial wealth per adult varied considerably as of 2022, from approximately ******* U.S. dollars in Switzerland to roughly ***** U.S. dollars in Azerbaijan. In Europe, the overall average financial wealth per adult as of 2022 was ****** U.S. dollars. In terms of private wealth, Europe held the second highest value in the world, after North America. What is financial wealth? Financial wealth, also known as financial assets or liquid assets can include wealth that an individual has in the forms of cash, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and bank deposits. In addition to financial wealth, wealth can also be measured in other assets, called non-financial wealth. This includes physical assets, such as real estate, land, vehicles, jewelry, and art, just to name a few. Where do most wealthy individuals live? Individuals with a net worth over *********** U.S. dollars are called high-net worth individuals (HNWI). The United States was the home country to the highest number of HNWIs in 2021. China followed, although their number of HNWIs did not even reach ********* of the number in the United States. In Europe, Switzerland is the country with the highest average financial wealth per adult, but with its small population size, the number of HNWIs does not come near the numbers in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, and Italy – the European countries with the highest number of HNWIs. Considering Switzerland’s small population size, however, it is the country in the world with the highest proportion of millionaires.

Korea Median: AH: 1 Peson: Net Worth data was reported at 47,760.000 KRW th in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 46,320.000 KRW th for 2016. Korea Median: AH: 1 Peson: Net Worth data is updated yearly, averaging 43,275.000 KRW th from Mar 2010 (Median) to 2017, with 8 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 47,760.000 KRW th in 2017 and a record low of 26,790.000 KRW th in 2010. Korea Median: AH: 1 Peson: Net Worth data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Statistics Korea. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Korea – Table KR.H076: SHFLC: Household Assets, Liabilities & Income By The Number of Household Members.

Korea Average: HPL: 1 Net Worth Quintile: Other Than Non-Financial Assets data was reported at 5,840,000.000 KRW in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 5,510,000.000 KRW for 2016. Korea Average: HPL: 1 Net Worth Quintile: Other Than Non-Financial Assets data is updated yearly, averaging 4,755,000.000 KRW from Mar 2010 to 2017, with 8 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 5,840,000.000 KRW in 2017 and a record low of 2,570,000.000 KRW in 2010. Korea Average: HPL: 1 Net Worth Quintile: Other Than Non-Financial Assets data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Statistics Korea. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Korea – Table KR.H083: SHFLC: Household Assets, Liabilities & Income By Net Worth Quintiles.

Korea Median: AH: 1 Net Worth Quintile: Savings data was reported at 3,110,000.000 KRW in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 2,700,000.000 KRW for 2016. Korea Median: AH: 1 Net Worth Quintile: Savings data is updated yearly, averaging 2,850,000.000 KRW from Mar 2010 (Median) to 2017, with 8 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 3,110,000.000 KRW in 2017 and a record low of 1,750,000.000 KRW in 2010. Korea Median: AH: 1 Net Worth Quintile: Savings data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Statistics Korea. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Korea – Table KR.H083: SHFLC: Household Assets, Liabilities & Income By Net Worth Quintiles.

Korea Average: AH: 1 Net Worth Quintile: Other Than Non-Financial Assets data was reported at 3,230,000.000 KRW in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 3,100,000.000 KRW for 2016. Korea Average: AH: 1 Net Worth Quintile: Other Than Non-Financial Assets data is updated yearly, averaging 2,775,000.000 KRW from Mar 2010 (Median) to 2017, with 8 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 3,230,000.000 KRW in 2017 and a record low of 1,580,000.000 KRW in 2010. Korea Average: AH: 1 Net Worth Quintile: Other Than Non-Financial Assets data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Statistics Korea. The data is categorized under Global Database’s South Korea – Table KR.H083: SHFLC: Household Assets, Liabilities & Income By Net Worth Quintiles.

Korea Median: AH: 1 Net Worth Quintile: Net Worth data was reported at 10,700,000.000 KRW in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 10,400,000.000 KRW for 2016. Korea Median: AH: 1 Net Worth Quintile: Net Worth data is updated yearly, averaging 9,810,000.000 KRW from Mar 2010 (Median) to 2017, with 8 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 10,700,000.000 KRW in 2017 and a record low of 6,430,000.000 KRW in 2010. Korea Median: AH: 1 Net Worth Quintile: Net Worth data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Statistics Korea. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Korea – Table KR.H083: SHFLC: Household Assets, Liabilities & Income By Net Worth Quintiles.

Korea Average: AH: 1 Total Assets Quintile: Net Worth data was reported at 14,430,000.000 KRW in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 13,720,000.000 KRW for 2016. Korea Average: AH: 1 Total Assets Quintile: Net Worth data is updated yearly, averaging 12,250,000.000 KRW from Mar 2010 (Median) to 2017, with 8 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 14,430,000.000 KRW in 2017 and a record low of 4,270,000.000 KRW in 2010. Korea Average: AH: 1 Total Assets Quintile: Net Worth data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Statistics Korea. The data is categorized under Global Database’s South Korea – Table KR.H082: SHFLC: Household Assets, Liabilities & Income Assets Quintiles.

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).

Korea Average: AH: 1 Net Worth Quintile: Total Assets data was reported at 31,470,000.000 KRW in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 29,880,000.000 KRW for 2016. Korea Average: AH: 1 Net Worth Quintile: Total Assets data is updated yearly, averaging 28,070,000.000 KRW from Mar 2010 (Median) to 2017, with 8 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 31,470,000.000 KRW in 2017 and a record low of 22,820,000.000 KRW in 2010. Korea Average: AH: 1 Net Worth Quintile: Total Assets data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Statistics Korea. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Korea – Table KR.H083: SHFLC: Household Assets, Liabilities & Income By Net Worth Quintiles.

Wealth and its subcomponent distributions, dollar values and dollar value per household, by household characteristics such as income quintile, age, housing tenure and composition, Canada, annual 2010 to 2019 and quarterly starting 2020.

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 Q1 2025 about net worth, wealth, percentile, Net, 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 geography-specific; 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% income threshold of Nova Scotian tax filers. Different definitions of income are available in the table namely market, total, and after-tax income, both with and without capital gains.