In 2024, it was estimated that the top one percent of earners in the United Kingdom accounted for around 13.1Â percent of the overall national income of the UK. The share of national income earned by the top one percent increased from 6.8 percent in 1980 to a peak of 14.7 percent in 2006 and 2007.
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