Namibia vs Uruguay: Wealth share of the richest 1%

Namibia

40.0%

in 2024

Uruguay

40.5%

in 2024

Namibia rank

7th

Uruguay rank

4th

Wealth share of the richest 1% over time

Namibia
Uruguay

How they compare

Uruguay currently reports 40.5% against 40.0% in Namibia, a difference of 0.5%.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 45 shared years of data; in 1980 it was Namibia ahead.

Namibia ranks 7th and Uruguay ranks 4th of 215 countries.

Individual pages

Wealth share of the richest 1% in Namibia
Wealth share of the richest 1% in Uruguay
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.