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24 maj 2024 · The share of income received by the richest 1% of the population. Income here is measured before taxes and benefits.
This is a list of the world's countries measuring the income of the richest one percent each (before taxes and transfers). The source of the data is the United Nations Development Programme, and refers to the latest available date. [1] Countries unlisted have no data available.
The share of income received by the richest 1% of the population. Income here is measured before taxes and benefits. The dotted lines represent extrapolations due to limited data availability.
25 lis 2022 · People in America’s top 1% make at least $336,953 in annual pre-tax income. That’s more than $100,000 above the 1% of next closest countries, Germany ($212,107) and Canada ($193,036). On the flip side, adults in Ethiopia only need to make $24,297 to fall into the country’s 99th percentile.
21 lis 2022 · This chart shows the share of wealth held by the wealthiest 1 percent of the population in 2000 and 2021 in selected countries.
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By doing so, it becomes possible to track very precisely the evolution of all income or wealth levels, from the bottom to the top. The key novelty of the WID.world project is to use such data in a systematic manner, allowing comparisons between countries and over long time periods.
