Guyana vs Suriname: Wealth share of the richest 1%

Guyana

30.6%

in 2024

Suriname

30.7%

in 2024

Guyana rank

46th

Suriname rank

43rd

Wealth share of the richest 1% over time

Guyana
Suriname

How they compare

Suriname currently reports 30.7% against 30.6% in Guyana, a difference of 0.0%.

The two have swapped places 25 times across 45 shared years of data; in 1980 it was Guyana ahead.

Guyana ranks 46th and Suriname ranks 43rd of 215 countries.

Individual pages

Wealth share of the richest 1% in Guyana
Wealth share of the richest 1% in Suriname
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.