Chad vs Papua New Guinea: Wealth share of the richest 1%

Chad

25.5%

in 2024

Papua New Guinea

25.6%

in 2024

Chad rank

138th

Papua New Guinea rank

137th

Wealth share of the richest 1% over time

Chad
Papua New Guinea

How they compare

Papua New Guinea currently reports 25.6% against 25.5% in Chad, a difference of 0.1%.

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

Chad ranks 138th and Papua New Guinea ranks 137th of 215 countries.

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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.