Graph and download economic data for Share of Net Worth Held by the Top 1% (99th to 100th Wealth Percentiles) (WFRBST01134) from Q3 1989 to Q2 2025 about net worth, wealth, percentile, Net, 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.

Graph and download economic data for Total Assets Held by the Top 1% (99th to 100th Wealth Percentiles) (WFRBLT01000) from Q3 1989 to Q2 2025 about wealth, percentile, assets, 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 Net Worth Held by the Top 1% (99th to 100th Wealth Percentiles) (WFRBLT01026) from Q3 1989 to Q2 2025 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 ** 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 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 Share of Financial Assets Held by the Top 1% (99th to 100th Wealth Percentiles) (WFRBST01112) from Q3 1989 to Q2 2025 about wealth, percentile, financial, assets, and USA.

In 2024, there were nearly 24 million people with a net worth of over one million U.S. dollars in the United States, which put the country on the top of the ranking. China was ranked second in that year, with more than six million individuals with wealth exceeding one million U.S. dollars. France followed in third with around three million millionaires.

United States - Share of Total Net Worth Held by the Top 1% (99th to 100th Wealth Percentiles) was 31.00000 % of Aggregate in April 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 October of 2025.

The statistic displays the minimum threshold of wealth owned by the population in selected European countries in order to be selected into the richest one percent as of 2014. For instance, in Luxembourg, the top richest one percent of the population started at 2.7 million euros in 2014. In comparison, in Spain the cut-off point was at 227.7 thousand euros in the same year.

In 2022 the top one percent of earners in the United Kingdom accounted for around 10.2 percent of the overall national income of the UK. The share of national income earned by the top one percent increased from 6.8 percent in 1980 to a peak of 14.8 percent in 2007.

United States - Total Net Worth Held by the Top 1% (99th to 100th Wealth Percentiles) was 51852980.00000 Mil. of $ in April of 2025, 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 51852980.00000 in April of 2025 and a record low of 4668012.00000 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 October of 2025.

This statistic shows the share of overall income held by the richest 1 percent of each country in 2005. The richest top percent of U.S. citizens had an income share of 17.4 percent of the country's total income. Since 1949, the U.S. has experienced a leap in inequality while an equally marked drop has occurred in the Netherlands.

United States - Share of Miscellaneous Assets Held by the Top 1% (99th to 100th Wealth Percentiles) was 7.80000 % of Aggregate in April of 2025, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, United States - Share of Miscellaneous Assets Held by the Top 1% (99th to 100th Wealth Percentiles) reached a record high of 10.70000 in April of 2004 and a record low of 7.60000 in July of 1992. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for United States - Share of Miscellaneous Assets Held by the Top 1% (99th to 100th Wealth Percentiles) - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on October of 2025.

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.

The statistic displays the share of wealth that the richest one percent of the population owned in selected European countries as of 2014. The wealth concentration was the highest in Austria and Germany, where the wealthiest one percent of households owned 40 and 35 percent of country's total private wealth, respectively.

United States - Miscellaneous Assets Held by the Top 1% (99th to 100th Wealth Percentiles) was 136432.00000 Mil. of $ in April of 2025, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, United States - Miscellaneous Assets Held by the Top 1% (99th to 100th Wealth Percentiles) reached a record high of 136918.00000 in October of 2024 and a record low of 19146.00000 in July of 1989. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for United States - Miscellaneous Assets Held by the Top 1% (99th to 100th Wealth Percentiles) - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on October of 2025.

Graph and download economic data for Share of Real Estate Held by the Top 1% (99th to 100th Wealth Percentiles) (WFRBST01110) from Q3 1989 to Q2 2025 about wealth, real estate, percentile, and USA.

U.S. Top 1% Wealth Share - Historical chart and current data through 2025.