Benin vs Gabon: Wealth share of the richest 1%

Benin

24.4%

in 2024

Gabon

24.3%

in 2024

Benin rank

158th

Gabon rank

160th

Wealth share of the richest 1% over time

Benin
Gabon

How they compare

Benin currently reports 24.4% against 24.3% in Gabon, a difference of 0.0%.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 45 shared years of data; in 1980 it was Gabon ahead.

Benin ranks 158th and Gabon ranks 160th of 215 countries.

Individual pages

Wealth share of the richest 1% in Benin
Wealth share of the richest 1% in Gabon
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.