Kiribati vs Sri Lanka: Wealth share of the richest 1%

Kiribati

27.2%

in 2024

Sri Lanka

26.8%

in 2024

Kiribati rank

114th

Sri Lanka rank

117th

Wealth share of the richest 1% over time

Kiribati
Sri Lanka

How they compare

Kiribati currently reports 27.2% against 26.8% in Sri Lanka, a difference of 0.3%.

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

Kiribati ranks 114th and Sri Lanka ranks 117th of 215 countries.

Individual pages

Wealth share of the richest 1% in Kiribati
Wealth share of the richest 1% in Sri Lanka
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.