Income Share of Top 1%

Share of pre-tax national income received by the richest 1% (World Inequality Database). Our World in Data, 2015–2022.

Source: Our World in Data Licence: CC BY 4.0 Unit: % of income Parsed: 2026-08-03 Open source ↗

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Avg (2022)
11.6
+1.1pp vs 2021
Improving
6
of 74 tracked
Declining
26
period over period
Stable
31
±0.5pp band

Income Share of Top 1%

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Trend over time

Group average by period, 2015–2022.

10.513.616.719.822.9 20152016201720182019202020212022
AsiaEuropeAfricaAmericas

Movers

Biggest period-over-period changes.

Top risers

EntityNowChange
🇮🇶 Iraq 38.1 +38.1pp
🇨🇱 Chile 26.7 +26.7pp
🇲🇽 Mexico 25.6 +25.6pp
🇲🇿 Mozambique 22.7 +22.7pp
🇬🇪 Georgia 21.1 +21.1pp

Top fallers

EntityNowChange
🇹🇳 Tunisia 0 -22.4pp
🇹🇭 Thailand 0 -19.8pp
🇰🇪 Kenya 0 -16.1pp
🇨🇫 Central African Republic 0 -15.6pp
🇧🇫 Burkina Faso 0 -14.7pp

By group

Change by group, latest period.

Asia +1.6pp
Africa +1.6pp
Europe +0.50pp
Americas 0.00pp
GroupMembersAvgChange
Americas 13 21 0.00pp
Asia 8 18.1 +1.6pp
Africa 5 15.6 +1.6pp
Europe 30 12 +0.50pp