Nauru vs Palau: Wealth share of the richest 1%

Nauru

27.3%

in 2024

Palau

27.3%

in 2024

Nauru rank

103rd

Palau rank

101st

Wealth share of the richest 1% over time

Nauru
Palau

How they compare

Palau currently reports 27.3% against 27.3% in Nauru, a difference of 0.0%.

The two have swapped places 18 times across 45 shared years of data; in 1980 it was Palau ahead.

Nauru ranks 103rd and Palau ranks 101st of 215 countries.

Individual pages

Wealth share of the richest 1% in Nauru
Wealth share of the richest 1% in Palau
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.