Iraq vs Russia: Wealth share of the richest 1%

Iraq

40.4%

in 2024

Russia

49.0%

in 2024

Iraq rank

5th

Russia rank

2nd

Wealth share of the richest 1% over time

Iraq
Russia

How they compare

Russia currently reports 49.0% against 40.4% in Iraq, a difference of 8.6%.

That makes Russia's figure about 1.2 times Iraq's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 45 shared years of data; in 1980 it was Iraq ahead.

Iraq ranks 5th and Russia ranks 2nd of 215 countries.

Individual pages

Wealth share of the richest 1% in Iraq
Wealth share of the richest 1% in Russia
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.