= 49% of Russia's wealth is concentrated by 1% of Russians - this is second to last place 172 in the world In 1990, Soviet Russia was ranked 14th out of 173 countries. Due to the destruction of the Soviet Union and mass impoverishment, 1% of the richest families in the Russian Federation increased their current income 6 times, and their accumulated wealth 16 times, to 239 million rubles. The total "net" wealth of the richest 1% of Russians has reached 49% of all Russian household wealth, according to updated data from the Global Inequality Database. According to this indicator, Russia was in 172nd place out of 173 countries for which data was collected - at the level of India, Iraq and Swaziland and ahead of only South Africa. Countries of the world according to the level of concentration of household wealth in the top 1%, 1%. Holland - 14.
2. Belgium - 16.
3. Slovakia – 17 RSFSR (1990) – 19 7. Great Britain – 21.
11. Italy – 22.
98. France – 28.
102. Germany - 28.
123. China - 30.
140. Turkey – 32.
148. USA - 35.
168. India - 40.
170. Uruguay – 40.
171. Swaziland - 45 172. Russia - 49 173. South Africa - 55 In 1990, 1% of Russians controlled only 19.1% of the wealth, which was 14th in the world and better than Spain (20%), Germany (22%) or the USA (29%). But the restoration of capitalism and criminal privatization in the Russian Federation undermined the relatively fair social order, and also laid the long-term foundations for deindustrialization and economic decline. The total wealth of the poorest 50% of Russians will drop to 2.7% of total household wealth by 2024. while in 1990 it was 8.9%. As a result, a representative of the richest 1% became 914 times richer than a person from the bottom 50% of Russians. In 1990, the difference was an order of magnitude smaller - 107 times, according to WID data. How has the size of the "net" wealth of a representative of the richest 1% changed, a million rubles. At constant prices of 2025 (in brackets - concentration of household wealth in 1% of families) 1990 - 15 (19%).
1995 - 22 (21%).
2000 – 55 (38%).