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.

The United States is leading the ranking by number of high networth individuals , recording 26.9 million individuals. Following closely behind is China with 13.9 million individuals, while Lesotho is trailing the ranking with 0 thousand individuals, resulting in a difference of 26.9 million individuals to the ranking leader, the United States. High Net Worth Individuals are here defined as persons with investible assets of at least one million U.S. dollars in current exchange rate terms.The shown data are an excerpt of Statista's Key Market Indicators (KMI). The KMI are a collection of primary and secondary indicators on the macro-economic, demographic and technological environment in more than 150 countries and regions worldwide. All input data are sourced from international institutions, national statistical offices, and trade associations. All data has been are processed to generate comparable datasets (see supplementary notes under details for more information).

This statistic shows a ranking of the estimated number of High Net Worth Individuals (HNWI) in 2020 in Asia, differentiated by country. High Net Worth Individuals are here defined as persons with investible assets of at least 1 million US$ in current exchange rate terms.The shown data are an excerpt of Statista's Key Market Indicators (KMI). The KMI are a collection of primary and secondary indicators on the macro-economic, demographic and technological environment in more than 150 countries and regions worldwide. All input data are sourced from international institutions, national statistical offices, and trade associations. All data has been are processed to generate comparable datasets (see supplementary notes under details for more information).

The number of high networth individuals in Russia was forecast to continuously increase between 2024 and 2029 by in total ***** thousand individuals (****** percent). After the ninth consecutive increasing year, the number of individuals is estimated to reach ****** thousand individuals and therefore a new peak in 2029. High Net Worth Individuals are here defined as persons with investible assets of at least *********** U.S. dollars in current exchange rate terms.The shown data are an excerpt of Statista's Key Market Indicators (KMI). The KMI are a collection of primary and secondary indicators on the macro-economic, demographic and technological environment in more than *** countries and regions worldwide. All input data are sourced from international institutions, national statistical offices, and trade associations. All data has been are processed to generate comparable datasets (see supplementary notes under details for more information).Find more key insights for the number of high networth individuals in countries like Northern Europe and Eastern Europe.

Over ** million Russians aged 20 years and above, or approximately ** percent of the total adult population of the country, had wealth under 10,000 U.S. dollars in 2022. To compare, on average around the globe, the share of residents belonging to this wealth range was measured at **** percent in the same year. Economic inequality in Russia The latest available data by the World Bank recorded Russia’s Gini index, used as a measurement of income or wealth inequality, at **. The organization classified Russia as an upper-middle-income economy. Over ** percent of Russians considered themselves belonging to the middle class in 2020. HNWIs in Russia Approximately *** percent of Russian adults, or ******* residents, owned over *********** U.S. dollars, or were referred to as high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs). In 2021, the total wealth of the adult population in the country reached nearly *** trillion U.S. dollars. A significant portion of it belonged to roughly ***** ultra-high-net-worth individuals (UHNWIs) whose net worth exceeded ** billion U.S. dollars.

In 2021, the population with high and ultra-high net worth in Russia increased relative to the previous year, measuring at approximately ***** thousand and *** thousand individuals, respectively, For 2026, the estimates forecast a further increase.

Average income in Russia

The average per capita monthly income in Russia has been gradually increasing, estimated at nearly **** thousand Russian rubles in 2021. The largest share, or over one quarter of the employed population, earned between ** thousand and ** thousand Russian rubles per month in 2021.

Russia’s super rich

Less than six percent of Russians had a monthly income of over 100 thousand Russian rubles in 2021. Among them were members of the Bakalchuk family, the richest in the country by total compound assets. The total wealth of its members, who managed the e-commerce company Wildberries, was estimated at **** billion U.S. dollars as of July 2021. To compare, the total declared income of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin was reported at about ** million Russian rubles in 2020.

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