Canada vs Costa Rica: Wealth share of the richest 1%

Canada

28.6%

in 2024

Costa Rica

28.7%

in 2024

Canada rank

67th

Costa Rica rank

64th

Wealth share of the richest 1% over time

Canada
Costa Rica

How they compare

Costa Rica currently reports 28.7% against 28.6% in Canada, a difference of 0.1%.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 45 shared years of data; in 1980 it was Costa Rica ahead.

Canada ranks 67th and Costa Rica ranks 64th of 215 countries.

Individual pages

Wealth share of the richest 1% in Canada
Wealth share of the richest 1% in Costa Rica
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.