Norway vs Seychelles: Wealth share of the richest 1%

Norway

23.5%

in 2024

Seychelles

23.3%

in 2024

Norway rank

183rd

Seychelles rank

185th

Wealth share of the richest 1% over time

Norway
Seychelles

How they compare

Norway currently reports 23.5% against 23.3% in Seychelles, a difference of 0.1%.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 45 shared years of data; in 1980 it was Seychelles ahead.

Norway ranks 183rd and Seychelles ranks 185th of 215 countries.

Individual pages

Wealth share of the richest 1% in Norway
Wealth share of the richest 1% in Seychelles
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.