List of sovereign states by wealth inequality

This is a list of countries by distribution of wealth, including Gini coefficients.

Wealth distribution can vary greatly from income distribution in a country (see List of countries by income equality).

Higher Gini coefficients signify greater wealth inequality, with 0 being complete equality, whereas a value near 1 can arise if everybody has zero wealth except a very small minority.

Countries that have high-quality wealth taxes and honest reporting from financial institutions, such as the Netherlands and Norway, tend to have more reliable wealth inequality statistics.

[4] The Wealth Gini coefficients from 2008 are based on a working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research.