This is a list of countries by wealth inequality, including Gini coefficients. Wealth distribution can vary greatly from income distribution in a country (see List of countries by income inequality).

Higher Gini coefficients for wealth signify greater wealth inequality, with 0 being complete equality, whereas a value near 1 can arise if everybody has zero wealth except a very small minority.

Developed countries like the US with a high Gini coefficient can have high mean (average) wealth per adult, but a relatively low median wealth per adult compared to other developed nations. Median wealth is midpoint where 50% of adults have higher wealth, and 50% have lower wealth. See both measures of wealth here: List of countries by wealth per adult.

Countries that have high taxes on wealth and honest reporting from financial institutions, such as Norway, tend to have more reliable wealth inequality statistics.

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The wealth Gini coefficient is a statistical measure that quantifies how net worth (total assets minus liabilities) is distributed across a population. It ranges from 0 (perfect equality), where everyone owns the exact same amount of wealth, to 1 (perfect inequality), where a single person owns all the wealth. The table below is for 2008, 2018, 2019 and 2021. The GDP data is based on data from the World Bank as of 2022. The population data is based on data from the UN as of 2024. The Wealth Gini coefficients from 2008 are based on a working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

The Wealth Gini numbers for 2018, 2019, and 2021 come from the Global Wealth Databook by Credit Suisse.

* indicates "Wealth inequality in [country or territory]" or "Income inequality in [country or territory]" links.

Country Wealth Gini Population Nominal GDP GDP per capita 2008 2018 2019 2021Numbers % of world (in millions of US dollars) % of world 0.804 0.904 0.885 0.889 100 101,560,901 100 11,258 0.655 0.689 0.642 0.629 0.637 0.686 5,239 0.67 0.758 0.749 0.848 4,115 0.731 0.814 0.747 0.838 0.823 0.813 16,732 0.74 0.792 0.768 0.809 11,719 0.684 0.645 0.663 0.731 4,212 0.703 0.813 0.622 0.658 0.656 0.662 57,591 0.646 0.764 0.739 0.742 51,205 0.678 0.643 0.654 0.726 4,718 0.828 0.895 0.747 0.885 0.66 0.671 0.678 0.754 1,698 0.706 0.788 0.778 0.805 17,465 0.628 0.614 0.621 0.672 6,312 0.662 0.659 0.603 0.599 47,270 0.763 0.815 0.803 0.835 4,884 0.713 0.689 0.707 0.800 902 0.762 0.779 0.764 0.808 3,646 0.642 0.692 6,056 0.751 0.783 0.8 0.879 8,259 0.62 0.823 0.849 0.892 8,921 0.787 0.897 0.652 0.647 0.659 0.702 9,237 0.728 0.674 0.688 0.790 715 0.699 0.654 0.681 0.703 272 0.714 0.704 0.718 0.783 1,510 0.711 0.725 0.743 0.833 1,534 0.688 0.726 0.728 0.726 46,213 0.782 0.768 0.777 0.845 476 0.681 0.715 0.73 0.776 728 0.777 0.773 0.798 0.794 15,923 0.55 0.714 0.702 0.701 9,532 0.765 0.807 0.77 0.835 6,666 0.711 0.766 0.783 0.861 1,415 0.755 0.830 0.769 0.855 0.732 0.769 0.75 0.797 12,027 0.654 0.631 0.645 0.702 14,669 0.801 0.791 0.626 0.758 0.725 0.776 23,026 0.808 0.835 0.838 0.739 61,834 0.729 0.796 0.763 0.84 0.823 0.813 7,693 0.723 8,051 0.76 0.776 0.759 0.801 6,345 0.689 0.909 0.756 0.793 2,520 0.746 0.759 0.743 0.812 4,058 0.688 0.781 0.793 0.864 10,262 0.621 0.763 0.675 0.715 0.716 0.731 23,231 0.78 4,146 0.652 0.612 0.62 0.723 772 0.709 0.694 0.702 0.785 6,267 0.615 0.767 0.742 0.744 50,111 0.73 0.687 0.696 0.702 42,738 0.784 0.7 0.719 0.797 7,953 0.723 0.755 0.771 0.857 796 0.725 0.678 0.687 0.817 4,397 0.667 0.816 0.816 0.788 47,491 0.692 0.682 0.699 0.753 2,202 0.654 0.682 0.654 0.682 20,721 0.763 0.842 0.827 0.682 10,642 0.779 4,549 0.693 0.716 0.741 0.816 879 0.71 0.697 0.712 0.780 778 0.707 0.75 0.734 0.769 4,979 0.755 0.82 0.801 0.799 868 0.743 0.804 2,500 0.740 0.777 0.738 48,471 0.651 0.662 0.663 0.680 16,264 0.664 0.731 0.694 0.649 76,855 0.669 0.854 0.832 0.823 2,010 0.764 0.84 0.833 0.782 3,893 0.707 0.705 0.705 0.792 5,501 0.633 0.710 0.581 0.83 0.796 0.800 102,394 0.677 0.766 0.777 0.747 44,215 0.609 0.689 0.669 0.672 34,372 0.712 1,716 0.686 0.788 0.775 0.822 5,354 0.547 0.631 0.626 0.647 39,082 0.678 0.677 0.696 0.767 4,238 0.655 0.952 0.772 0.776 9,790 0.699 0.732 0.745 0.826 1,711 0.763 0.862 0.68 0.673 0.681 0.752 1,267 0.794 0.883 0.67 0.788 0.789 0.805 17,843 0.762 0.889 0.819 0.802 8,257 0.767 0.795 0.805 0.888 1,299 0.727 0.806 0.659 0.760 0.666 0.655 0.663 0.720 19,073 0.65 0.663 0.67 0.663 117,312 0.58 82,535 0.722 0.702 0.722 0.821 527 0.736 0.733 0.751 0.845 389 0.733 0.82 0.796 0.830 11,373 0.724 0.808 0.75 0.682 0.707 0.800 900 0.664 0.631 0.64 0.611 33,131 0.686 0.667 0.681 0.758 1,189 0.661 0.64 0.662 0.716 11,222 0.749 0.8 0.777 0.804 9,673 0.645 0.691 0.668 0.742 0.648 0.681 0.69 0.802 0.766 0.824 3,273 0.689 0.7 0.716 0.750 499 0.597 0.680 0.847 0.776 0.788 0.868 5,931 0.71 0.788 0.65 0.789 0.902 0.750 53,557 0.651 0.708 0.672 0.700 43,204 0.755 0.778 0.759 0.813 2,029 0.729 0.66 0.682 0.738 414 0.729 0.894 0.809 0.860 2,028 0.661 0.655 6,084 0.633 0.791 0.798 0.794 81,336 0.786 0.880 0.698 0.65 0.665 0.740 1,482 0.766 0.795 0.78 0.819 15,575 0.738 0.76 0.766 0.843 2,730 0.766 0.785 0.768 0.815 5,822 0.738 0.795 0.788 0.800 6,941 0.717 0.826 0.837 0.873 3,103 0.657 0.722 0.677 0.716 15,444 0.667 0.736 0.692 0.706 23,466 0.753 33,271 0.633 0.586 0.651 0.728 0.647 0.696 12,281 0.699 0.875 0.879 0.880 11,291 0.714 0.728 0.742 0.818 773 0.747 0.777 0.674 0.734 0.737 0.81 0.834 0.864 23,337 0.697 0.705 0.726 0.797 1,522 0.676 0.713 7,992 0.76 0.679 0.704 0.760 16,376 0.687 0.671 0.694 0.732 534 0.689 0.758 0.757 0.788 63,249 0.629 0.498 0.498 0.505 19,421 0.626 0.646 0.662 0.652 25,992 0.7 0.814 0.763 0.806 0.806 0.886 6,373 0.579 0.67 0.606 0.682 35,196 0.57 0.697 0.694 0.691 30,391 0.665 0.687 0.7 0.770 4,188 0.728 0.813 0.818 0.813 0.687 0.832 0.886 0.742 0.865 0.867 0.881 55,767 0.803 0.741 0.705 0.772 82,279 0.699 0.778 0.751 0.707 0.656 0.728 0.676 0.65 0.661 0.744 1,030 0.71 0.902 0.846 0.771 7,274 0.565 0.627 0.711 0.719 0.734 0.815 679 0.682 0.777 0.689 0.748 0.732 0.757 17,130 0.693 0.683 0.705 0.780 3,447 0.718 0.871 0.794 0.810 9,368 0.63 0.705 0.723 0.714 0.729 0.828 643 0.667 0.955 0.847 0.834 2,957 0.796 0.885 0.697 0.747 0.746 0.706 42,526 0.801 0.852 0.852 0.850 62,808 0.708 0.741 0.721 0.774 17,278 0.688 0.814 0.743 0.778 0.682 0.708 0.761 0.797 2,566 0.613 0.801 0.798 0.883 944 0.766 0.787 0.798 0.886 1,540 0.845 0.707 0.719 0.797 2,147

See also Income inequality metrics List of countries by external debt List of countries by income inequality List of countries by GDP (nominal) List of countries by GDP (nominal) per capita List of countries by GDP (PPP) List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita List of countries by Human Development Index List of countries by public debt List of countries by wealth per adult Wealth distribution by country Wealth inequality in the United States

References

External links The World Distribution of Household Wealth. February 2008. By James B. Davies, Susanna Sandström, Anthony Shorrocks, and Edward N. Wolff. United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER). Estimating the Level and Distribution of Global Household Wealth. November 2007. By James B. Davies, Susanna Sandström, Anthony Shorrocks, and Edward N. Wolff. UNU-WIDER. The World Distribution of Household Wealth. July 2007. By James B. Davies, Susanna Sandström, Anthony Shorrocks, and Edward N. Wolff. Center for Global, International and Regional Studies. University of California, Santa Cruz. The World Distribution of Household Wealth. 5 December 2006. By James B. Davies, Susanna Sandstrom, Anthony Shorrocks, and Edward N. Wolff. Tables to the 2006 report in Excel (including Gini coefficients for 229 countries). UNU-WIDER. World's richest 1% own 40% of all wealth, UN report discovers. 6 December 2006. By James Randerson. The Guardian. It's the Inequality, Stupid. March/April 2011 Issue. Mother Jones (magazine). Many charts, with sources. Who Rules America: Wealth, Income, and Power. July 2011. By G. William Domhoff. Many charts, and sources. See table 4 for wealth distribution by country. See table 7 for income distribution by country. Alan Grayson says United States has fifth-most unequal wealth distribution in world. 10 October 2011. PolitiFact. CHARTS: Here's What The Wall Street Protesters Are So Angry About.... 11 October 2011. Business Insider. OECD 2015 In It Together Chapter 1 Overview Inequality. 21 May 2015. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. More recent Gini data p. 41.