Rwanda vs Saudi Arabia: Wealth share of the richest 1%

Rwanda

30.2%

in 2024

Saudi Arabia

30.1%

in 2024

Rwanda rank

55th

Saudi Arabia rank

57th

Wealth share of the richest 1% over time

Rwanda
Saudi Arabia

How they compare

Rwanda currently reports 30.2% against 30.1% in Saudi Arabia, a difference of 0.1%.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 56 shared years of data; in 1820 it was Saudi Arabia ahead.

Rwanda ranks 55th and Saudi Arabia ranks 57th 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.