List of countries by distribution of wealth

Distribution of wealth

The distribution of wealth is a comparison of the wealth of various members or groups in a society. It differs from the distribution of income in that it looks at the distribution of ownership of the assets in a society, rather than the current income of members of that society.-Definition of...

 including Gini coefficient

Gini coefficient

The Gini coefficient is a measure of statistical dispersion developed by the Italian statistician and sociologist Corrado Gini and published in his 1912 paper "Variability and Mutability" ....

s. Wealth distribution can vary greatly from income distribution

Income distribution

In economics, income distribution is how a nation’s total economy is distributed amongst its population.Income distribution has always been a central concern of economic theory and economic policy...

 in a country. See: List of countries by income equality.

Higher Gini coefficients signify greater inequality in wealth distribution, with 1 being complete inequality and 0 being complete equality. "The top 10 per cent owned 71 per cent of world wealth, and the Gini coefficient for the global distribution of wealth is estimated to be 0.804, indicating greater inequality than that observed in the global distribution of consumption or income."

The table below is for 2000, and is based on Purchasing power parity

Purchasing power parity

In economics, purchasing power parity is a condition between countries where an amount of money has the same purchasing power in different countries. The prices of the goods between the countries would only reflect the exchange rates...

 (PPP) dollars.

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Country	population (000s)	adults (000s)	Share of world population (%)	Share of adult population (%)	Wealth per capita	Wealth per adult	Share of world wealth (%)	GDP per capita	Share of world GDP (%)	Wealth Gini
_World	6085576	3697511	100.00	100.00	26416	43494	100.00	7675	100.00	0.804
Albania	3062	1851	0.05	0.05	10574	17497	0.02	3658	0.02	0.642
Algeria	30463	16353	0.50	0.44	7320	13635	0.14	6107	0.40	0.670
Antigua and Barbuda	77	52	0.00	0.00	20944	30915	0.00	18007	0.00	0.747
Argentina	36896	23307	0.61	0.63	36740	58161	0.84	11729	0.93	0.740
Armenia	3082	1986	0.05	0.05	9480	14711	0.02	3068	0.02	0.684
Australia	19071	13690	0.31	0.37	90906	126635	1.08	27193	1.11	0.622
Austria	8096	6271	0.13	0.17	73047	94305	0.37	24836	0.43	0.646
Azerbaijan	8143	4816	0.13	0.13	6737	11391	0.03	3555	0.06	0.678
Bangladesh	128916	66483	2.12	1.80	6305	12226	0.51	1772	0.49	0.660
Barbados	266	190	0.00	0.01	102932	144376	0.02	17526	0.01	0.706
	population (000s)	adults (000s)	Share of world population (%)	Share of adult population (%)	Wealth per capita	Wealth per adult	Share of world wealth (%)	GDP per capita	Share of world GDP (%)	Wealth Gini
Belarus	10029	7335	0.17	0.20	14659	20043	0.09	8738	0.19	0.628
Belgium	10304	7896	0.17	0.21	86205	112492	0.55	25008	0.55	0.662
Belize	242	119	0.00	0.00	12550	25444	0.00	7170	0.00	0.763
Benin	7197	3112	0.12	0.08	3378	7812	0.02	1225	0.02	0.713
Bolivia	8317	4171	0.14	0.11	6654	13269	0.03	2934	0.05	0.762
Botswana	1754	851	0.03	0.02	15719	32401	0.02	7703	0.03	0.751
Brazil	173858	104213	2.86	2.82	19676	32825	2.13	7745	2.88	0.784
Bulgaria	7997	6192	0.13	0.17	15120	19527	0.08	6356	0.11	0.652
Burkina Faso	11292	4591	0.19	0.12	2123	5222	0.02	986	0.02	0.728
Burundi	6486	2607	0.11	0.07	1876	4668	0.01	619	0.01	0.699
	population (000s)	adults (000s)	Share of world population (%)	Share of adult population (%)	Wealth per capita	Wealth per adult	Share of world wealth (%)	GDP per capita	Share of world GDP (%)	Wealth Gini
Cambodia	12744	5847	0.21	0.16	4890	10658	0.04	1859	0.05	0.714
Cameroon	14856	6819	0.24	0.18	5290	11525	0.05	2301	0.07	0.711
Canada	30689	22764	0.50	0.62	89252	120326	1.70	28731	1.89	0.688
Cape Verde	451	202	0.01	0.01	10801	24144	0.00	4299	0.00	0.688
Central African Rep.	3777	1738	0.06	0.05	1949	4235	0.01	1148	0.01	0.782
Chad	8216	3501	0.14	0.10	1726	4051	0.01	959	0.02	0.681
Chile	15412	9809	0.25	0.27	27536	43265	0.26	10389	0.34	0.777
China	1251788	842063	20.57	22.77	11267	16749	8.77	3844	10.30	0.550
Colombia	42120	24197	0.69	0.65	13826	24067	0.36	5796	0.52	0.765
Comoros	699	315	0.01	0.01	5182	11490	0.00	1823	0.00	0.711
	population (000s)	adults (000s)	Share of world population (%)	Share of adult population (%)	Wealth per capita	Wealth per adult	Share of world wealth (%)	GDP per capita	Share of world GDP (%)	Wealth Gini
Congo Dem. Rep.	50052	21050	0.82	0.57	1400	3328	0.04	669	0.07	0.711
Congo Rep.	3438	1468	0.06	0.04	2806	6573	0.01	2533	0.02	0.711
Costa Rica	3929	2284	0.07	0.06	14718	25319	0.04	5873	0.05	0.732
Côte d'Ivoire	16735	7529	0.28	0.20	5212	11584	0.05	2028	0.07	0.712
Croatia	4505	3430	0.07	0.09	22021	28925	0.06	9547	0.09	0.654
Czech Rep.	10267	7889	0.17	0.21	32431	42205	0.21	14844	0.33	0.626
Denmark	5340	4072	0.09	0.11	66191	86807	0.22	28539	0.33	0.808
Dominica	78	46	0.00	0.00	12717	21500	0.00	8284	0.00	0.763
Dominican Rep.	8265	4462	0.14	0.12	13873	25696	0.07	5654	0.10	0.723
Ecuador	12306	6770	0.20	0.18	6758	12285	0.05	3720	0.10	0.760
	population (000s)	adults (000s)	Share of world population (%)	Share of adult population (%)	Wealth per capita	Wealth per adult	Share of world wealth (%)	GDP per capita	Share of world GDP (%)	Wealth Gini
Egypt	67285	35550	1.11	0.96	15541	29415	0.65	4406	0.64	0.689
El Salvador	6280	3389	0.10	0.09	18408	34115	0.07	4622	0.06	0.746
Equatorial Guinea	449	206	0.01	0.01	7404	16110	0.00	10302	0.01	0.688
Estonia	1367	1016	0.02	0.03	24556	33023	0.02	10873	0.03	0.675
Ethiopia	68525	30020	1.13	0.81	1412	3224	0.06	720	0.11	0.652
Fiji	811	453	0.01	0.01	9928	17764	0.01	4950	0.01	0.709
Finland	5177	3905	0.09	0.11	53154	70461	0.17	24416	0.27	0.615
France	59278	44358	0.97	1.20	94557	126360	3.49	23614	3.00	0.730
Gabon	1272	603	0.02	0.02	14833	31279	0.01	7780	0.02	0.784
Gambia	1316	643	0.02	0.02	3894	7964	0.00	1329	0.00	0.723
	population (000s)	adults (000s)	Share of world population (%)	Share of adult population (%)	Wealth per capita	Wealth per adult	Share of world wealth (%)	GDP per capita	Share of world GDP (%)	Wealth Gini
Georgia	4720	3326	0.08	0.09	12358	17537	0.04	5315	0.05	0.725
Germany	82344	64810	1.35	1.75	90768	115325	4.65	23917	4.22	0.667
Ghana	19867	9418	0.33	0.26	3903	8234	0.05	1376	0.06	0.692
Greece	10975	8568	0.18	0.23	69855	89477	0.48	15558	0.37	0.654
Grenada	102	60	0.00	0.00	15250	25782	0.00	6410	0.00	0.763
Guatemala	11166	4986	0.18	0.14	12858	28796	0.09	4335	0.10	0.779
Guinea-Bissau	1366	588	0.02	0.02	1673	3884	0.00	738	0.00	0.710
Guinea	8434	3876	0.14	0.11	7756	16877	0.04	2961	0.05	0.693
Guyana	744	433	0.01	0.01	5697	9790	0.00	4072	0.01	0.707
Haiti	7939	3745	0.13	0.10	6244	13238	0.03	1798	0.03	0.755
	population (000s)	adults (000s)	Share of world population (%)	Share of adult population (%)	Wealth per capita	Wealth per adult	Share of world wealth (%)	GDP per capita	Share of world GDP (%)	Wealth Gini
Honduras	6424	3025	0.11	0.08	5318	11293	0.02	2164	0.03	0.743
Hong Kong	6637	5085	0.11	0.14	188699	246307	0.78	27893	0.40	0.740
Hungary	10226	7834	0.17	0.21	31452	41055	0.20	11063	0.24	0.651
Iceland	281	194	0.01	0.01	81945	118439	0.01	26929	0.02	0.664
India	1021084	570595	16.78	15.43	6513	11655	4.14	2684	5.87	0.669
Indonesia	209174	124446	3.44	3.37	7973	13401	1.04	4035	1.81	0.764
Iran	66365	34053	1.09	0.92	16673	32494	0.69	7202	1.02	0.707
Ireland	3801	2646	0.06	0.07	91432	131367	0.22	27197	0.22	0.581
Israel	6084	3836	0.10	0.10	64633	102511	0.25	19148	0.25	0.677
Italy	57715	46416	0.95	1.26	120897	150327	4.34	22876	2.83	0.609
	population (000s)	adults (000s)	Share of world population (%)	Share of adult population (%)	Wealth per capita	Wealth per adult	Share of world wealth (%)	GDP per capita	Share of world GDP (%)	Wealth Gini
Jamaica	2585	1478	0.04	0.04	9601	16787	0.02	3464	0.02	0.686
Japan	127034	100933	2.09	2.73	124858	157146	9.86	25924	7.05	0.547
Jordan	4972	2474	0.08	0.07	10792	21687	0.03	4282	0.05	0.678
Kazakhstan	15033	9507	0.25	0.26	13723	21699	0.13	8331	0.27	0.655
Kenya	30689	13409	0.50	0.36	3442	7878	0.07	1316	0.09	0.699
Korea	46779	33242	0.77	0.90	45278	63716	1.32	14937	1.50	0.579
Kyrgyzstan	4952	2706	0.08	0.07	5174	9469	0.02	3205	0.03	0.680
Latvia	2373	1770	0.04	0.05	18958	25422	0.03	8305	0.04	0.670
Lebanon	3398	2024	0.06	0.06	20560	34522	0.04	6089	0.0	0.762
Lesotho	1788	825	0.03	0.02	2876	6236	0.00	1492	0.01	0.767
	population (000s)	adults (000s)	Share of world population (%)	Share of adult population (%)	Wealth per capita	Wealth per adult	Share of world wealth (%)	GDP per capita	Share of world GDP (%)	Wealth Gini
Lithuania	3500	2548	0.06	0.07	21566	29626	0.05	8397	0.06	0.666
Luxembourg	435	328	0.01	0.01	185231	245479	0.05	48968	0.05	0.650
Macao	444	310	0.01	0.01	71660	102755	0.02	23118	0.02	0.580
Macedonia	2010	1398	0.03	0.04	14759	21214	0.02	5506	0.02	0.661
Madagascar	16195	7260	0.27	0.20	2226	4965	0.02	877	0.03	0.722
Malawi	11512	4970	0.19	0.13	2559	5927	0.02	808	0.02	0.736
Malaysia	22997	12944	0.38	0.35	12458	22135	0.18	9422	0.46	0.733
Mali	11647	4691	0.19	0.13	1798	4464	0.01	996	0.03	0.750
Malta	392	284	0.01	0.01	74246	102515	0.02	18256	0.02	0.664
Mauritania	2645	1225	0.04	0.03	3966	8566	0.01	1729	0.01	0.686
	population (000s)	adults (000s)	Share of world population (%)	Share of adult population (%)	Wealth per capita	Wealth per adult	Share of world wealth (%)	GDP per capita	Share of world GDP (%)	Wealth Gini
Mauritius	1186	779	0.02	0.02	60398	91954	0.05	14406	0.04	0.661
Mexico	100088	56132	1.65	1.52	23488	41881	1.46	9711	2.08	0.749
Moldova	4275	2894	0.07	0.08	7790	11508	0.02	2212	0.02	0.691
Morocco	29231	16167	0.48	0.44	12440	22491	0.23	4299	0.27	0.690
Mozambique	17911	8088	0.29	0.22	2820	6245	0.03	1113	0.04	0.689
Namibia	1894	874	0.03	0.02	8843	19159	0.01	6058	0.03	0.847
Netherlands	15898	12046	0.26	0.33	121165	159910	1.20	25759	0.88	0.650
New Zealand	3818	2678	0.06	0.07	55823	79585	0.13	20008	0.16	0.651
Nicaragua	4959	2279	0.08	0.06	5161	11228	0.02	1947	0.02	0.755
	population (000s)	adults (000s)	Share of world population (%)	Share of adult population (%)	Wealth per capita	Wealth per adult	Share of world wealth (%)	GDP per capita	Share of world GDP (%)	Wealth Gini
Niger	11782	4758	0.19	0.13	1755	4344	0.01	902	0.02	0.729
Nigeria	117608	51431	1.93	1.39	905	2070	0.07	826	0.21	0.736
Norway	4502	3337	0.07	0.09	79292	106970	0.22	32057	0.31	0.633
Pakistan	142648	67968	2.34	1.84	5987	12566	0.53	2158	0.66	0.698
Panama	2950	1731	0.05	0.05	15003	25571	0.03	6650	0.04	0.766
Papua N. Guinea	5299	2544	0.09	0.07	3629	7559	0.01	2326	0.03	0.738
Paraguay	5470	2703	0.09	0.07	10879	22016	0.04	4801	0.06	0.766
Peru	25952	14348	0.43	0.39	11577	20939	0.19	4799	0.27	0.738
Philippines	75766	39206	1.25	1.06	12453	24066	0.59	4065	0.66	0.717
Poland	38649	27858	0.64	0.75	24654	34204	0.59	9661	0.80	0.657
	population (000s)	adults (000s)	Share of world population (%)	Share of adult population (%)	Wealth per capita	Wealth per adult	Share of world wealth (%)	GDP per capita	Share of world GDP (%)	Wealth Gini
Portugal	10225	7878	0.17	0.21	53811	69840	0.34	17089	0.37	0.667
Puerto Rico	3835	2609	0.06	0.07	77876	114475	0.19	22242	0.18	0.753
Romania	22117	16431	0.36	0.44	14806	19930	0.20	5024	0.24	0.651
Russia	146560	107493	2.41	2.91	16579	22604	1.51	9996	3.14	0.699
Rwanda	8025	3250	0.13	0.09	2955	7296	0.02	976	0.02	0.714
Sao Tome and Principe	140	62	0.00	0.00	3235	7251	0.00	1317	0.00	0.711
Saudi Arabia	21484	10992	0.35	0.30	22025	43046	0.29	12374	0.57	0.737
Senegal	10343	4547	0.17	0.12	4309	9802	0.03	1681	0.04	0.697
Seychelles	77	43	0.00	0.00	26486	47673	0.00	11644	0.00	0.760
Sierra Leone	4509	2136	0.07	0.06	2043	4311	0.01	734	0.01	0.687
	population (000s)	adults (000s)	Share of world population (%)	Share of adult population (%)	Wealth per capita	Wealth per adult	Share of world wealth (%)	GDP per capita	Share of world GDP (%)	Wealth Gini
Singapore	4017	2890	0.07	0.08	113632	157942	0.28	28644	0.25	0.689
Slovakia	5400	3900	0.09	0.11	24049	33297	0.08	12619	0.15	0.629
Slovenia	1967	1521	0.03	0.04	37019	47867	0.05	16983	0.07	0.626
South Africa	45610	25480	0.75	0.69	16266	29118	0.46	8017	0.78	0.763
Spain	40717	32165	0.67	0.87	93086	117837	2.36	19037	1.66	0.570
Sri Lanka	19848	12689	0.33	0.34	10337	16168	0.13	3841	0.16	0.665
St Kitts and Nevis	40	24	0.00	0.00	22339	37767	0.00	14627	0.00	0.763
St Lucia	154	89	0.00	0.00	18013	31128	0.00	6823	0.00	0.763
St Vincent-Grenadines	116	64	0.00	0.00	13287	23932	0.00	7847	0.00	0.741
Swaziland	1023	444	0.02	0.01	12773	29417	0.01	5047	0.01	0.780
	population (000s)	adults (000s)	Share of world population (%)	Share of adult population (%)	Wealth per capita	Wealth per adult	Share of world wealth (%)	GDP per capita	Share of world GDP (%)	Wealth Gini
Sweden	8877	6735	0.15	0.18	78148	102996	0.43	24628	0.47	0.742
Switzerland	7167	5497	0.12	0.15	137549	179345	0.61	28209	0.43	0.803
Syria	16813	7920	0.28	0.21	8917	18929	0.09	4338	0.16	0.704
Taiwan	22191	15476	0.37	0.42	100009	143405	1.38	19714	0.94	0.655
Tajikistan	6159	2866	0.10	0.08	2940	6318	0.01	1380	0.02	0.664
Tanzania	34763	15569	0.57	0.42	1216	2716	0.03	490	0.04	0.676
Thailand	61438	40160	1.01	1.09	13920	21295	0.53	6715	0.88	0.710
Togo	5364	2379	0.09	0.06	2217	4999	0.01	926	0.01	0.711
Trinidad and Tobago	1285	817	0.02	0.02	51101	80369	0.04	13721	0.04	0.689
Tunisia	9563	5638	0.16	0.15	20534	34833	0.12	7130	0.15	0.693
	population (000s)	adults (000s)	Share of world population (%)	Share of adult population (%)	Wealth per capita	Wealth per adult	Share of world wealth (%)	GDP per capita	Share of world GDP (%)	Wealth Gini
Turkey	68234	40391	1.12	1.09	22379	37806	0.95	7414	1.08	0.718
Uganda	24309	9370	0.40	0.25	2889	7495	0.04	1030	0.05	0.723
UK	58670	43871	0.96	1.19	128959	172461	4.71	24252	3.05	0.697
Ukraine	49116	36573	0.81	0.99	9547	12821	0.29	5147	0.54	0.667
Uruguay	3342	2259	0.06	0.06	20926	30957	0.04	10285	0.07	0.708
USA	284154	202865	4.67	5.49	143727	201319	25.40	35619	21.67	0.801
Venezuela	24418	13707	0.40	0.37	14711	26206	0.22	7232	0.38	0.712
Vietnam	78671	44025	1.29	1.19	5621	10045	0.28	2012	0.34	0.682
Yemen	17937	7209	0.30	0.20	1426	3548	0.02	1293	0.05	0.613
Zambia	10702	4517	0.18	0.12	2010	4762	0.01	841	0.02	0.766
Zimbabwe	12595	5631	0.21	0.15	6104	13654	0.05	2607	0.07	0.845
	population (000s)	adults (000s)	Share of world population (%)	Share of adult population (%)	Wealth per capita	Wealth per adult	Share of world wealth (%)	GDP per capita	Share of world GDP (%)	Wealth Gini

See also

• Income inequality metrics
  Income inequality metrics
  The concept of inequality is distinct from that of poverty and fairness. Income inequality metrics or income distribution metrics are used by social scientists to measure the distribution of income, and economic inequality among the participants in a particular economy, such as that of a specific...
  
  
• 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 external debt
• List of sovereign states by public debt

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
  University of California, Santa Cruz
  The University of California, Santa Cruz, also known as UC Santa Cruz or UCSC, is a public, collegiate university; one of ten campuses in the University of California...
  
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• 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
  The Guardian
  The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
  
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• It's the Inequality, Stupid. March/April 2011 Issue. Mother Jones (magazine)
  Mother Jones (magazine)
  Mother Jones is an American independent news organization, featuring investigative and breaking news reporting on politics, the environment, human rights, and culture. Mother Jones has been nominated for 23 National Magazine Awards and has won six times, including for General Excellence in 2001,...
  
  . 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
  PolitiFact.com
  PolitiFact.com is a project that is operated by the St. Petersburg Times, a project in which its reporters and editors "fact-check statements by members of Congress, the White House, lobbyists and interest groups...." They publish original statements and their evaluations on the PolitiFact.com...
  
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• CHARTS: Here's What The Wall Street Protesters Are So Angry About.... 11 October 2011. Business Insider
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  Business Insider is a U.S. business/entertainment news website launched in February 2009. Founded by DoubleClick Founder and former C.E.O. Kevin P. Ryan it is the overarching brand beneath which fall the Silicon Alley Insider and Clusterstock verticals...
  
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