Income Share of Top 10%

Share of pre-tax national income received by the richest 10% (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)
31.6
+0.70pp vs 2021
Improving
11
of 74 tracked
Declining
24
period over period
Stable
28
±0.5pp band

Income Share of Top 10%

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Trend over time

Group average by period, 2015–2022.

33.538.643.648.753.8 20152016201720182019202020212022
AsiaEuropeAfricaAmericas

Movers

Biggest period-over-period changes.

Top risers

EntityNowChange
🇮🇶 Iraq 66.7 +66.7pp
🇨🇱 Chile 59.5 +59.5pp
🇲🇿 Mozambique 59.4 +59.4pp
🇲🇽 Mexico 59.1 +59.1pp
🇿🇲 Zambia 56.2 +56.2pp

Top fallers

EntityNowChange
🇹🇳 Tunisia 0 -52.7pp
🇹🇭 Thailand 0 -52.4pp
🇨🇫 Central African Republic 0 -50.4pp
🇰🇪 Kenya 0 -49.7pp
🇧🇫 Burkina Faso 0 -47.6pp

By group

Change by group, latest period.

Africa +3.7pp
Asia +0.80pp
Europe +0.70pp
Americas +0.30pp
GroupMembersAvgChange
Americas 13 50.4 +0.30pp
Africa 5 49.9 +3.7pp
Asia 8 45.5 +0.80pp
Europe 30 35.6 +0.70pp