Estonia vs Zambia: Wealth share of the richest 1%

Estonia

35.0%

in 2024

Zambia

36.5%

in 2024

Estonia rank

25th

Zambia rank

22nd

Wealth share of the richest 1% over time

Estonia
Zambia

How they compare

Zambia currently reports 36.5% against 35.0% in Estonia, a difference of 1.5%.

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

Estonia ranks 25th and Zambia ranks 22nd of 215 countries.

Individual pages

Wealth share of the richest 1% in Estonia
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.