Wealth inequality by country
How unevenly household wealth is spread (0 to 1). The map opens on 2019, with figures for 57 countries.
Highest in 2019
- Central African Rep. 0.45
- Ethiopia 0.45
- Dem. Rep. Congo 0.44
- Papua New Guinea 0.39
- Zambia 0.38
Lowest in 2019
- Mexico 0.01
- Serbia 0.04
- North Macedonia 0.04
- Montenegro 0.04
- Maldives 0.04
About the data
- Unit
- score from 0 (equal) to 1
- Years
- 1992–2023
- Data as of
- 2026-09-28
- Source
- Global Data Lab
- License
- Free for non-commercial use with credit; commercial use needs written permission from the Global Data Lab
- Credit
- Data retrieved from the Wealth database of the Global Data Lab (v2.1), https://globaldatalab.org/wealth/
All countries
- Afghanistan 0.16 (2018)
- Albania 0.05 (2019)
- Algeria 0.07 (2019)
- Angola 0.36 (2019)
- Armenia 0.05 (2019)
- Azerbaijan 0.16 (2006)
- Bangladesh 0.22 (2019)
- Barbados 0.05 (2016)
- Belarus 0.06 (2019)
- Belize 0.12 (2014)
- Benin 0.29 (2018)
- Bhutan 0.23 (2014)
- Bolivia 0.23 (2011)
- Bosnia and Herz. 0.03 (2014)
- Botswana 0.17 (2016)
- Brazil 0.05 (2013)
- Burkina Faso 0.29 (2013)
- Burundi 0.35 (2019)
- Cambodia 0.23 (2014)
- Cameroon 0.31 (2019)
- Central African Rep. 0.45 (2019)
- Chad 0.35 (2019)
- Chile 0.09 (2010)
- China 0.13 (2014)
- Colombia 0.09 (2018)
- Comoros 0.26 (2012)
- Congo 0.26 (2018)
- Costa Rica 0.04 (2019)
- Côte d'Ivoire 0.37 (1999)
- Cuba 0.12 (2019)
- Dem. Rep. Congo 0.44 (2019)
- Djibouti 0.28 (2010)
- Dominican Rep. 0.10 (2019)
- Ecuador 0.14 (2014)
- Egypt 0.04 (2017)
- El Salvador 0.11 (2017)
- Eq. Guinea 0.48 (2004)
- Eritrea 0.55 (2005)
- eSwatini 0.22 (2014)
- Ethiopia 0.45 (2019)
- Fiji 0.20 (2007)
- Gabon 0.20 (2012)
- Gambia 0.22 (2018)
- Georgia 0.08 (2019)
- Ghana 0.20 (2018)
- Guatemala 0.17 (2018)
- Guinea 0.30 (2019)
- Guinea-Bissau 0.29 (2019)
- Guyana 0.12 (2019)
- Haiti 0.36 (2019)
- Honduras 0.15 (2019)
- India 0.20 (2019)
- Indonesia 0.12 (2019)
- Iran 0.11 (2010)
- Iraq 0.07 (2019)
- Jamaica 0.13 (2011)
- Jordan 0.04 (2017)
- Judea and Samaria and Gaza Strip 0.07 (2014)
- Kazakhstan 0.05 (2018)
- Kenya 0.34 (2014)
- Kiribati 0.29 (2019)
- Kyrgyzstan 0.07 (2019)
- Laos 0.15 (2019)
- Lesotho 0.29 (2018)
- Liberia 0.36 (2013)
- Madagascar 0.36 (2018)
- Malawi 0.35 (2016)
- Malaysia 0.04 (2014)
- Maldives 0.04 (2019)
- Mali 0.28 (2019)
- Mauritania 0.35 (2015)
- Mauritius 0.06 (2017)
- Mexico 0.01 (2019)
- Moldova 0.12 (2015)
- Mongolia 0.14 (2019)
- Montenegro 0.04 (2019)
- Morocco 0.21 (2006)
- Mozambique 0.41 (2011)
- Myanmar 0.24 (2019)
- Namibia 0.31 (2016)
- Nepal 0.18 (2019)
- Nicaragua 0.27 (2015)
- Niger 0.43 (2015)
- Nigeria 0.27 (2018)
- North Macedonia 0.04 (2019)
- Pakistan 0.19 (2019)
- Panama 0.21 (2016)
- Papua New Guinea 0.39 (2019)
- Paraguay 0.09 (2015)
- Peru 0.19 (2015)
- Philippines 0.17 (2017)
- Rwanda 0.38 (2015)
- S. Sudan 0.30 (2013)
- Saint Lucia 0.10 (2016)
- Samoa 0.10 (2019)
- São Tomé and Principe 0.20 (2019)
- Senegal 0.23 (2019)
- Serbia 0.04 (2019)
- Sierra Leone 0.35 (2019)
- Somalia 0.25 (2014)
- South Africa 0.15 (2019)
- Sudan 0.37 (2017)
- Suriname 0.08 (2019)
- Syria 0.08 (2010)
- Tajikistan 0.11 (2019)
- Tanzania 0.40 (2015)
- Thailand 0.06 (2019)
- Timor-Leste 0.23 (2019)
- Togo 0.24 (2019)
- Tonga 0.09 (2019)
- Trinidad and Tobago 0.07 (2011)
- Tunisia 0.07 (2019)
- Turkey 0.05 (2019)
- Turkmenistan 0.06 (2019)
- Turks and Caicos Is. 0.06 (2019)
- Tuvalu 0.10 (2019)
- Uganda 0.37 (2019)
- Ukraine 0.07 (2015)
- Uruguay 0.00 (2016)
- Uzbekistan 0.14 (2009)
- Vanuatu 0.33 (2007)
- Venezuela 0.04 (2016)
- Vietnam 0.13 (2014)
- Yemen 0.28 (2013)
- Zambia 0.38 (2019)
- Zimbabwe 0.30 (2019)