Ireland vs Norway: Wealth share of the richest 1%

Ireland

23.3%

in 2024

Norway

23.5%

in 2024

Ireland rank

186th

Norway rank

183rd

Wealth share of the richest 1% over time

Ireland
Norway

How they compare

Norway currently reports 23.5% against 23.3% in Ireland, a difference of 0.1%.

The two have swapped places 10 times across 45 shared years of data; in 1980 it was Norway ahead.

Ireland ranks 186th and Norway ranks 183rd of 215 regions.

Individual pages

Wealth share of the richest 1% in Ireland
Wealth share of the richest 1% in Norway
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.