Top 1% net worth by country

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The 1% line
$9.2m

yours is 11% of the way there

Rank #1 of 157 countries with 1M+ people
1. United States$9.2m2. Switzerland$9.1m3. Hong Kong$6.7m4. Singapore$6.1m5. Sweden$5.8m6. Australia$4.8m7. Netherlands$4.7m8. Denmark$4.6mYou, $1.0mUnited States$9.2mSwitzerland$9.1mHong Kong$6.7mSingapore$6.1mSweden$5.8mAustralia$4.8mNetherlands$4.7mDenmark$4.6mYou, $1.0m

Where the top 1% begins, in US dollars, among countries of a million people or more. Your country is the dark bar; the dashed line is you.

In the United States the top 1% of adults starts at $9.2m in net worth, which ranks #1 of 157 countries with more than a million people.

How to use this, and the parts people get wrong
  • The line is the wealth needed to enter the top 1%, not the average wealth inside it, which is far higher.
  • It is measured per adult, in local money. Use the picker to read it in your own currency.
  • Wealth concentrates harder than income, so the 1% line for wealth sits much further from the median than the 1% line for salary.

From the median to the top 0.1%

The 1% line in the United States stands at $9.2m. Yours, $1.0m, is 11% of the way there; $8.2m remains.

74× the medianhow far the 1% line sits above the typical adult there
#1 of 157its rank among countries of 1M+ people

The line, country by country

Left: the 25 highest lines. Right: the 25 most populated countries. All in US dollars at held rates.

#Highest linesThe 1% line
1 United States$9.2m
2 Switzerland$9.1m
3 Hong Kong$6.7m
4 Singapore$6.1m
5 Sweden$5.8m
6 Australia$4.8m
7 Netherlands$4.7m
8 Denmark$4.6m
9 United Arab Emirates$4.4m
10 Israel$4.0m
11 Saudi Arabia$3.7m
12 Norway$3.7m
13 New Zealand$3.5m
14 Canada$3.5m
15 Germany$3.5m
16 United Kingdom$3.4m
17 France$3.1m
18 Qatar$3.0m
19 Austria$2.8m
20 Ireland$2.8m
21 Cyprus$2.5m
22 South Korea$2.3m
23 Belgium$2.3m
24 Uruguay$2.3m
25 Portugal$2.3m
#Most populatedThe 1% line
1 India$230k
2 China$1.0m
3 United States$9.2m
4 Indonesia$382k
5 Pakistan$131k
6 Nigeria$127k
7 Brazil$1.0m
8 Bangladesh$203k
9 Russian Federation$1.4m
10 Ethiopia$91.2k
11 Mexico$1.0m
12 Japan$1.8m
13 Egypt$224k
14 Philippines$298k
15 DR Congo$93.3k
16 Vietnam$320k
17 Iran$173k
18 Turkiye$1.6m
19 Germany$3.5m
20 Thailand$581k
21 United Kingdom$3.4m
22 Tanzania$118k
23 France$3.1m
24 South Africa$1.9m
25 Italy$2.0m

Questions people ask

How much do you need to be in the top 1% in the United States?
About $9,178,967 in net worth per adult (2026 figures): assets minus debts, couples split equally. The tool shows the same line, in US dollars, for 214 countries.
Which countries have the highest top 1% line?
Among countries of a million people or more: United States ($9.2m), Switzerland ($9.1m), Hong Kong ($6.7m). Microstates and offshore centres sit outside the ranking so it reflects economies people actually compare.
Is this income or net worth?
Net worth: what you own minus what you owe. A top 1% income is a different, much lower bar; the income percentile tool on this site answers that one.
Why is everything in US dollars?
Because this page compares countries, and a comparison needs one unit. Each country's own page in the net worth percentile tool speaks its local currency.
How solid are these figures?
They come from fitted national wealth distributions anchored to published medians where those exist. Treat each line as a well-anchored estimate: the top of a wealth distribution is the hardest part to measure.

Method and sources

  • Harmonised national wealth distributionsfitted per-adult distributions, anchored to published medians
  • Global wealth reportingpublished medians used as anchors, where available
The computation

Each country's 99th percentile is read from the same fitted distribution the net worth percentile tool draws, converted to US dollars at the held rates. 2026 figures, indexed from the 2024 measured base with published per-country growth. The ranking covers countries of at least one million people; all 216 measured countries remain selectable above.

What these figures do not cover
  • Per-adult net worth, couples split equally.
  • Exchange rates are the held vintage, so the ranking is a snapshot.
  • The extreme tail is modelled from published points.

Last updated July 2026.

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