Bahrain vs Qatar: Wealth share of the richest 1%

Bahrain

38.1%

in 2024

Qatar

37.7%

in 2024

Bahrain rank

18th

Qatar rank

19th

Wealth share of the richest 1% over time

Bahrain
Qatar

How they compare

Bahrain currently reports 38.1% against 37.7% in Qatar, a difference of 0.4%.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 45 shared years of data; in 1980 it was Bahrain ahead.

Bahrain ranks 18th and Qatar ranks 19th of 215 countries.

Individual pages

Wealth share of the richest 1% in Bahrain
Wealth share of the richest 1% in Qatar
Full country ranking

About this data

Indicator: Wealth share of the richest 1%
Unit: %
Source: World Inequality Database (WID.world) (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 215 places, 10,553 data points, 1800–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

The share of wealth owned by the richest 1% of the population. Wealth is defined as the total value of non-financial and financial assets (housing, land, deposits, bonds, equities, etc.) held by households, minus their debts.