Top 1% income share by country:
🇮🇳 India — 40% of all income
🇧🇷 Brazil — 30%
🇺🇸 USA — 21%
🇬🇧 UK — 14%
🇩🇪 Germany — 13%
🇯🇵 Japan — 9%
🇩🇰 Denmark — 8%
In India, the top 1% earns 40 cents of every dollar generated in the economy.
That number has doubled since 1990.
Source: World Inequality Database (WID) 2024. India top 1% at ~40% verified.