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English: Chart of the US Top 1% income share during the periods from 1913-2008. Data retrieved from The World Top Incomes Database on 2011-10-22. W3C-validity not checked.
There were 337 women listed on the world's billionaires as of 4 April 2023, up from 327 in 2022. [1] Since 2021, Françoise Bettencourt Meyers has been listed as the world's wealthiest woman. According to a 2021 billionaire census, women make up 11.9% of the billionaire cohort, and "just over half of all female billionaires are heiresses, with ...
The average personal wealth of people in the top 1% is more than a thousand times that of people in bottom 50%. [ 1 ] The logarithmic scale shows how wealth has increased for all percentile groups, though moreso for wealthier people.
Families whose wealth exceeds $2.9 million find themselves in the top 10% of wealth in the States. But although the benchmark to join the exclusive club is a meager $3 million, the average funds ...
As of the second quarter 2024, the average American household had wealth of $1.17 million. The average wealth of households in the top 1 percent was about $35.5 million. In the top 0.1 percent ...
According to the latest findings from the 18th edition of the Wealth Report by Douglas Elliman and Knight Frank, a person needs $5.8 million to be considered in the wealthiest 1% — a figure that ...
It is based on an annual assessment of wealth and assets by Forbes and by data from the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The Forbes 400 Richest Americans list has been published annually since 1982. The combined net worth of the 2020 class of the 400 richest Americans was $3.2 trillion, up from $2.7 trillion in 2017. [1]
After the Great Recession which started in 2007, the share of total wealth owned by the top 1% of the population grew from 34.6% to 37.1%, and that owned by the top 20% of Americans grew from 85% to 87.7%. The Great Recession also caused a drop of 36.1% in median household wealth but a drop of only 11.1% for the top 1%. [55] [53]