Samoa vs Tuvalu: Wealth share of the richest 1%

Samoa
27.3%
in 2024
Tuvalu
27.3%
in 2024
Samoa rank
100th
Tuvalu rank
102nd

Wealth share of the richest 1% over time

  • Samoa
  • Tuvalu
0102030198020022024

How they compare

Samoa currently reports 27.3% against 27.3% in Tuvalu, a difference of 0.0%.

The two have swapped places 17 times across 45 shared years of data; in 1980 it was Tuvalu ahead.

Samoa ranks 100th and Tuvalu ranks 102nd 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
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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.