How does your net worth compare in South Africa?
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Where does your wealth rank?
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Median net worth
$5,141
Top 10% threshold
$78,433
Top 1% threshold
$843,478
Net wealth distribution in South Africa
Each bar is a slice of South Africa's households. The dashed lines mark the median and mean.
What the numbers actually say
A top-10% household owns 15.3× the median.
In South Africa, wealth inequality dwarfs income inequality.
The middle 60% of households own between $2,056 and $36,959.
Most 'normal' net worths in South Africa fit inside that band.
The top 1% own 164.1× a typical household.
It's not a gap — it's a different category.
Only 1 in 20 households in South Africa own more than $99,171.
Top 5% starts here.
The average net worth is $23,956 — far above the median.
That gap is the ultra-wealthy pulling the average into another orbit.
A top-10% household owns 76× a bottom-10% household.
That's the spread inside one country.
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