Guatemala vs Jamaica: Wealth share of the richest 1%

Guatemala

30.6%

in 2024

Jamaica

30.7%

in 2024

Guatemala rank

46th

Jamaica rank

45th

Wealth share of the richest 1% over time

Guatemala
Jamaica

How they compare

Jamaica currently reports 30.7% against 30.6% in Guatemala, a difference of 0.0%.

The two have swapped places 24 times across 45 shared years of data; in 1980 it was Jamaica ahead.

Guatemala ranks 46th and Jamaica ranks 45th of 215 countries.

Individual pages

Wealth share of the richest 1% in Guatemala
Wealth share of the richest 1% in Jamaica
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.