Congo vs Zambia: Wealth share of the richest 1%

Congo

36.1%

in 2024

Zambia

36.5%

in 2024

Congo rank

23rd

Zambia rank

22nd

Wealth share of the richest 1% over time

Congo
Zambia

How they compare

Zambia currently reports 36.5% against 36.1% in Congo, a difference of 0.4%.

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

Congo ranks 23rd and Zambia ranks 22nd of 215 countries.

Individual pages

Wealth share of the richest 1% in Congo
Wealth share of the richest 1% in Zambia
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.