Brazil vs Colombia: Wealth share of the richest 1%

Brazil

39.5%

in 2024

Colombia

39.2%

in 2024

Brazil rank

10th

Colombia rank

12th

Wealth share of the richest 1% over time

Brazil
Colombia

How they compare

Brazil currently reports 39.5% against 39.2% in Colombia, a difference of 0.2%.

The two have swapped places 10 times across 56 shared years of data; in 1820 it was Brazil ahead.

Brazil ranks 10th and Colombia ranks 12th of 215 countries.

Individual pages

Wealth share of the richest 1% in Brazil
Wealth share of the richest 1% in Colombia
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.