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Top 10% income share

The share of global pre-tax national income received by the richest 10% of adults, splitting household income equally between spouses.

Share · not an average or median

First official point · 1980

51.9

% of pre-tax national income

Latest official point · 2023

53.1

% of pre-tax national income

Published World points

44

1980–2023

Gaps are years without a published World value. The line is not interpolated.

How this series is built

Share of the global income distribution. Neither an average nor a median.

World Inequality Database series sptincj992, percentile p90p100, from the published World (WO) file. This is WID's global interpersonal distribution of pre-tax national income among equal-split adults aged 20 and over — not a World Bank country Gini, and not WDI SI.DST.10TH.10, which has no World row. WID publishes shares as a 0–1 fraction; they are shown as percent. Sparse reconstructed World estimates before the annual series are omitted. Only years with a published World value are shown.

Source

Aggregate
Share · not an average or median
Producer
World Inequality Lab
Series
World Inequality Database
Series code
sptincj992
License
CC BY 4.0
Fetched
2026-08-17