The first thing to notice is that there is not really much movement in this over time. In fact, looking at this I don't find it too interesting and probably would not have posted on it on its own - but I promised in the income Lorenz curve post that I'd run this one too - so here it is.
Further, to recognize is that wealth can be negative as individuals can have a negative net wealth - this is specifically seen in the bottom 20 percentile of the population, the net worth of this set is around the -2% range. We see that 50% of the Canadian wealth is held by 90% of the population, with the top 50% of the wealth being held by the top 10th percentile (and the top 25% of the wealth being held by the top 1%).
Additionally, most of the movement in this curve takes place in the top 20th percentile. so zooming just on this area we witness the following - still not too exciting.
So, provided out of a promise to provide, I find it a little interesting that there has not been much change in the wealth distribution over the last 15ish years, That is, a rather anti-climatic change in wealth.
Further - to be honest - I struggled to find a definition of this data-set, so I am not 100% sure how wealth is determined and what sources of wealth go into this calculation - thus it may very well be that the unremarkability of the above data is due to the way in which wealth is measured and reported.
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