Japan vs Nepal: Wealth share of the richest 1%

Japan

24.6%

in 2024

Nepal

24.4%

in 2024

Japan rank

155th

Nepal rank

157th

Wealth share of the richest 1% over time

Japan
Nepal

How they compare

Japan currently reports 24.6% against 24.4% in Nepal, a difference of 0.2%.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 45 shared years of data; in 1980 it was Japan ahead.

Japan ranks 155th and Nepal ranks 157th of 215 countries.

Individual pages

Wealth share of the richest 1% in Japan
Wealth share of the richest 1% in Nepal
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.