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S7 · THE UPPER LEG OF THE K

Share of net worth held by the top 1% of households

31.60
STALE ROBUST DRS 95 quarterly as of 2026-01-01

This tile is stale: the value shown is the last one the source published, never a fabricated current number.

The full history

1989 high 31.80 · low 22.50 · now 31.60 · 4 recessions shaded 2026

How it is read

What it measures
the upper leg of the K
Confidence
ROBUST : a primary official series, mechanically reported.
Reliability (DRS)
DRS 95: Fed Distributional Financial Accounts. Shown beside S6: the K is the pair, not either line alone. Trend-dominated: a steadily trending series always prints high-z eventually; the state reads how far along the trend, vs the recent decade. Disclosed.

Where it comes from

FRED ↗ Every number on this site is reproducible from this primary source.

What it read at past stress points

Lehman, Sep 2008 28.10 · CALM
Q4-2018 selloff 30.00 ◆ WATCH
Curve inversion, Aug 2019 30.40 ◆ WATCH
COVID crash, Mar 2020 29.20 ◆ WATCH

Questions it helps answer

  • Who Gets What : Where does the wealth sit, and who keeps the output?