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How America's Wealth Distribution Has Changed Over The Last 40 Years
How America's Wealth Distribution Has Changed Over The Last 40 Years
Wealth reflects the value of everything households own, including homes, stocks, businesses, and savings, minus what they owe.
Because different wealth groups own very different mixes of assets, long-term market trends can reshape how the nation’s wealth is divided.
This graphic, via Visual Capitalist's Boyan Girginov, tracks how U.S. household wealth has shifted across wealth groups from Q3 1989 to Q4 2025 using data from the Federal Reserve’s Distributional Financial Accounts.
Wealth of the Top 1% vs. the Bottom 90%
The table below shows...
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