Eritrea vs Maldives: Wealth share of the richest 1%

Eritrea

23.6%

in 2024

Maldives

23.4%

in 2024

Eritrea rank

181st

Maldives rank

184th

Wealth share of the richest 1% over time

Eritrea
Maldives

How they compare

Eritrea currently reports 23.6% against 23.4% in Maldives, a difference of 0.2%.

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

Eritrea ranks 181st and Maldives ranks 184th of 215 countries.

Individual pages

Wealth share of the richest 1% in Eritrea
Wealth share of the richest 1% in Maldives
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.