Denmark vs Malta: Wealth share of the richest 1%

Denmark

20.8%

in 2024

Malta

21.4%

in 2024

Denmark rank

210th

Malta rank

207th

Wealth share of the richest 1% over time

Denmark
Malta

How they compare

Malta currently reports 21.4% against 20.8% in Denmark, a difference of 0.6%.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 45 shared years of data; in 1980 it was Malta ahead.

Denmark ranks 210th and Malta ranks 207th of 215 countries.

Individual pages

Wealth share of the richest 1% in Denmark
Wealth share of the richest 1% in Malta
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.