Samoa vs Sweden: Wealth share of the richest 1%

Samoa

27.3%

in 2024

Sweden

27.5%

in 2024

Samoa rank

100th

Sweden rank

97th

Wealth share of the richest 1% over time

Samoa
Sweden

How they compare

Sweden currently reports 27.5% against 27.3% in Samoa, a difference of 0.2%.

The two have swapped places 11 times across 45 shared years of data; in 1980 it was Samoa ahead.

Samoa ranks 100th and Sweden ranks 97th of 215 countries.

Individual pages

Wealth share of the richest 1% in Samoa
Wealth share of the richest 1% in Sweden
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.