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

Cuba
25.4%
in 2024
Papua New Guinea
25.6%
in 2024
Cuba rank
139th
Papua New Guinea rank
137th

Wealth share of the richest 1% over time

  • Cuba
  • Papua New Guinea
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How they compare

Papua New Guinea currently reports 25.6% against 25.4% in Cuba, a difference of 0.2%.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 45 shared years of data; in 1980 it was Cuba ahead.

Cuba ranks 139th 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
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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.