Brazil vs Mexico: Wealth share of the richest 1%

Brazil

39.5%

in 2024

Mexico

39.8%

in 2024

Brazil rank

10th

Mexico rank

8th

Wealth share of the richest 1% over time

Brazil
Mexico

How they compare

Mexico currently reports 39.8% against 39.5% in Brazil, a difference of 0.3%.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 56 shared years of data; in 1820 it was Brazil ahead.

Brazil ranks 10th and Mexico ranks 8th of 215 countries.

Individual pages

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