Nigeria vs United Arab Emirates: Wealth share of the richest 1%

Nigeria

28.0%

in 2024

United Arab Emirates

28.1%

in 2024

Nigeria rank

74th

United Arab Emirates rank

73rd

Wealth share of the richest 1% over time

Nigeria
United Arab Emirates

How they compare

United Arab Emirates currently reports 28.1% against 28.0% in Nigeria, a difference of 0.1%.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 56 shared years of data; in 1820 it was United Arab Emirates ahead.

Nigeria ranks 74th and United Arab Emirates ranks 73rd of 215 countries.

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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.