Income share of the richest 1%

The share of all income that goes to the richest 1% of people, before taxes and benefits.

This is the share of all income that goes to the richest 1% of people, measured before taxes and benefits. If income were shared equally, the richest 1% would get 1% of it. The World Inequality Database (WID.world) combines tax records, surveys and national accounts to capture the incomes at the very top, which surveys alone tend to miss. Our World in Data republishes the figures.

• Development
• Inequality
• Top incomes
• WID.world
• Country
• Year