🇧🇷 Brazil·Net wealth per adult (USD)
How does your net worth compare in Brazil?
Enter your household net worth after debts. See your percentile — and what it actually means.
Our household is worth about $AFTER DEBTS in Brazil.
Your position · Brazil households
TOP50%
Lower middle
Below the Brazil median of $6K. Mostly renters, often with positive cash savings.
You outrank 50% of households in Brazil. That's 1.0× the Brazil median net worth.
The anchors of the distribution
Median, mean, top decile.
The median household in Brazil is worth $6K. The mean is $29K: the 5.2× gap is the signature of a long right tail. The top decile begins at $83K; the bottom decile sits below $1K.
Bottom decile
$1K
Often students, young renters, or households with negative net worth from consumer credit.
Median household
$6K
You sit $2 below the median.
Top decile starts at
$83K
$77K away from joining the top decile.
The full distribution
Household wealth in Brazil, on a log scale.
Each bar is a wealth bracket; its height is the share of all households in that bracket. The x-axis is logarithmic, so a small and a large fortune don't look like they live on different planets. Half of Brazil sits below the dashed median line; one in ten sit above the top-decile line.
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Each bar is a decile of households, 10% each; its height is how tightly that tenth is packed in wealth terms, derived from the published decile thresholds. The top bar covers everyone above the ninth decile.
Where this number ranks abroad
Your net worth, across comparable countries.
Same household-net-worth methodology, converted to each country's currency at approximate exchange rates. Where your number lands tells you something different in each economy.
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Country
Median household
Your position
🇦🇷Argentina
$4K
Top 44%1.3× their median
🇿🇦South Africa
$5K
Top 47%1.1× their median
🇧🇷Brazilyour country
$6K
Top 50%1.0× their median
🇲🇽Mexico
$19K
Top 76%0.3× their median
🇸🇬Singapore
$113K
Top 91%0.1× their median
The filled bar shows your position on each country's distribution; the notch sits at the country median. Cross-country figures use approximate market exchange rates; inter-quantile points are interpolated from published deciles.
Three numbers worth the asterisk
What the percentile hides.
The mean vs median gap
The mean is 5.2× the median.
The median household in Brazil holds $6K; the mean is $29K. That gap is the signature of a long right tail: a small number of very wealthy households pulls the average up, which is why the median is the truer middle.
The first rung
The first $3K separates the bottom from the middle.
Below the lower deciles, households are typically renters with limited financial assets. Above this line, a primary residence enters the picture and the asset base compounds. The moment of buying is the single biggest step on the wealth ladder.
The pension blind spot
Your real economic wealth is higher than this.
This measure excludes accrued entitlements from public and most occupational pension schemes, so the real economic wealth of a typical household is meaningfully higher than the figure shown. The wealthier you are, the smaller that adjustment is in proportion.
Go global?
Type the same number into the global wealth pyramid to see your tier among billions of adults worldwide.
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Next steps
Four ways to act on this number.
Am I rich in Brazil? (income)
The income twin of this page: your percentile and tier from the same survey family.
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Saving rate, ranked
How much of your take-home pay you keep, versus other economies.
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Can I afford a house in Brazil?
What you can buy at your income and current mortgage rates.
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Compound your next milestone
See what a lump sum becomes at 5%, 7% and 10% over 10, 20 and 30 years.
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Frequently asked questions
Per the UBS Global Wealth Databook 2023 (end-2022), only 0.3% of Brazilian adults have wealth above USD 1,000,000, so that's the practical "top 1%" line. Just 4.4% have wealth above USD 100,000 (so USD 100,000 puts you near the 96th percentile). Brazil's wealth Gini is 88.4 — one of the highest in the world.
The median Brazilian adult had a net wealth of USD 5,702 (end-2022 UBS data). The mean was USD 29,452 — about 5× the median, reflecting extreme wealth concentration. 66% of Brazilian adults had less than USD 10,000 in net wealth.
Brazil does not publish a national household wealth survey, so the standard cross-country source is the UBS Global Wealth Databook, which reports net wealth per adult in USD. The bands (USD 10k, 100k, 1M) are global concepts used to compare wealth distributions across countries. Local-currency conversion at end-2022 (BRL ≈ 5.20 per USD) gives roughly: median R$30,000, mean R$153,000.
Brazil has one of the most unequal wealth distributions in the world. The wealth Gini of 88.4 is higher than nearly all OECD countries (US is around 85, UK around 70, France around 70). Two-thirds of Brazilian adults have less than USD 10,000 in net wealth, while roughly 0.3% have over USD 1 million — a stark concentration that mirrors Brazil's high income inequality.
Wealth and income are different concepts. Brazil's per-capita household income is around R$1,321/month (about USD 250/month or USD 3,000/year). Wealth represents accumulated assets, and most Brazilians have very limited savings, no real estate equity (rentals are common), and no formal financial assets. The median wealth of USD 5,702 reflects that limited accumulation.
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