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Average and median household income by age group. In 2007, the top 20% of the wealthiest Americans possessed 80% of all financial assets. [14] In 2007, the richest 1% of the American population owned 35% of the country's total wealth, and the next 19% owned 51%.
Capital gains are excluded for purely practical reasons. The Census doesn't ask about them, so they can't be included in inequality statistics. Obviously, the rich earn much more from investments than the poor. As a result, real levels of income inequality in America are much higher than the official Census Bureau figures would suggest.
This is a list of countries and territories by income inequality metrics, as calculated by the World Bank, UNU-WIDER, OCDE, and World Inequality Database, based on different indicators, like Gini coefficient and specific income ratios.
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The table below is for 2008, 2018, 2019 and 2021.The GDP data is based on data from the World Bank. [3] The population data is based on data from the UN. [4] The Wealth Gini coefficients from 2008 are based on a working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Three economists were awarded the Nobel Prize Monday for their research into how the nature of institutions helps explain why some countries become rich and others remain poor.