Statizoid

Kenya vs Sierra Leone: Wealth share of the richest 1%

Kenya
25.9%
in 2024
Sierra Leone
25.8%
in 2024
Kenya rank
129th
Sierra Leone rank
132nd

Wealth share of the richest 1% over time

  • Kenya
  • Sierra Leone
01020304050182019222024

How they compare

Kenya currently reports 25.9% against 25.8% in Sierra Leone, a difference of 0.1%.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 45 shared years of data; in 1980 it was Kenya ahead.

Kenya ranks 129th and Sierra Leone ranks 132nd of 215 countries.

Individual pages

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

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.