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Inequality in the distribution of wealth is present when richer groups own a more-than-equal share, and poorer groups own less. We discuss these measures and the data in more detail on our page on [economic inequality](https://ourworldindata.org/economic-inequality).\n- The data comes from the World Inequality Database (WID), and it is constructed using the Mixed Income Capitalization-Survey (MICS) method, which combines capitalized income flows from tax data with survey-based estimates for assets that do not generate taxable income. This is done because wealth distributions are usually not directly available in administrative data, and because wealth surveys coverage is even more limited than for income.\n- This measure is related to household net wealth, which is the total value of non-financial (housing, land) and financial assets (deposits, bonds, equities) held by households, minus their debts.\n- For some countries and years, the underlying data sources are not available. In these cases, estimates are extrapolated from other years or modeled based on data from other countries, which introduces uncertainty. For more information, see the [WID methodology documentation](https://wid.world/document/distributional-national-accounts-dina-guidelines-2025-methods-and-concepts-used-in-the-world-inequality-database/) and this [technical note](https://wid.world/document/global-wealth-inequality-on-wid-world-estimates-and-imputations-world-inequality-lab-technical-note-2025-01/).","origins":[{"id":15669,"titleSnapshot":"World Inequality Database (WID) - Key indicators","title":"World Inequality Database (WID)","description":"The World Inequality Database (WID.world) aims to provide open and convenient access to the most extensive available database on the historical evolution of the world distribution of income and wealth, both within countries and between countries.","producer":"World Inequality Database (WID.world)","citationFull":"World Inequality Database (WID), https://wid.world","attributionShort":"WID","urlMain":"https://wid.world","dateAccessed":"2026-07-07","datePublished":"2026","license":{"url":"https://wid.world/","name":"CC BY 4.0"}},{"id":15670,"titleSnapshot":"World Inequality Database (WID) - Key indicators (with extrapolations)","title":"World Inequality Database (WID)","description":"The World Inequality Database (WID.world) aims to provide open and convenient access to the most extensive available database on the historical evolution of the world distribution of income and wealth, both within countries and between countries.","producer":"World Inequality Database (WID.world)","citationFull":"World Inequality Database (WID), https://wid.world","attributionShort":"WID","urlMain":"https://wid.world","dateAccessed":"2026-07-07","datePublished":"2026","license":{"url":"https://wid.world/","name":"CC BY 4.0"}}]}