The world's most unequal countries

The inequality gap is extremely high in Russia, Brazil and India, according to Credit Suisse’s Global Wealth Report 2022. Incredibly, 58.6 percent of Russia’s wealth is controlled by the top richest one percent of its people. In Brazil, the share is closer to 50 percent, while in India it is just over 40 percent.

According to Credit Suisse’s Global Wealth Databook, in 2021, the United States had the highest number of people with a net worth of over one million U.S. dollars (24,480), followed by China (6,190), Japan (3,366), the United Kingdom (2,849), France (2,796) and Germany (2,683).