Ecuador vs Portugal: Wealth share of the richest 1%

Ecuador

25.1%

in 2024

Portugal

25.0%

in 2024

Ecuador rank

142nd

Portugal rank

145th

Wealth share of the richest 1% over time

Ecuador
Portugal

How they compare

Ecuador currently reports 25.1% against 25.0% in Portugal, a difference of 0.1%.

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

Ecuador ranks 142nd and Portugal ranks 145th of 215 countries.

Individual pages

Wealth share of the richest 1% in Ecuador
Wealth share of the richest 1% in Portugal
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.