Kuwait vs Niger: Wealth share of the richest 1%

Kuwait

24.7%

in 2024

Niger

24.8%

in 2024

Kuwait rank

152nd

Niger rank

149th

Wealth share of the richest 1% over time

Kuwait
Niger

How they compare

Niger currently reports 24.8% against 24.7% in Kuwait, a difference of 0.1%.

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

Kuwait ranks 152nd and Niger ranks 149th of 215 countries.

Individual pages

Wealth share of the richest 1% in Kuwait
Wealth share of the richest 1% in Niger
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.