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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] As of March 2023, there were 735 billionaires in the United States. [ 2 ]
One 2009 empirical analysis analyzed an estimated 15–27% of the individuals in the top 0.1% of adjusted gross income (AGI), including top executives, asset managers, law firm partners, professional athletes and celebrities, and highly compensated employees of investment banks. [27]
After the Great Recession 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%. Median household wealth dropped by 36.1% compared to a drop of only 11.1% for the top 1%, further widening the gap.
The two charts in this section show the average net worth of individuals in the top 1%, top 10%, 50th to 90th percentile, and bottom half of the population from 1962 to 2021. As of 2021, the average person in the top 10% is a HNWI, while the average person in the top 1% is a VHNWI.
Country % of income of the richest 1% Albania 8.2 Algeria 9.7 Angola 15.2 Australia 9.1 Austria 9.3 Bahrain 18.0 Belgium 7.8 Benin 17.5 Bosnia and Herzegovina 8.9
As of April 2024, there are 2,781 billionaires worldwide, with a combined wealth of over US$14.2 trillion, up from US$12.2 trillion in 2023. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] According to a 2024 Oxfam report, the world's top 1% of earners own more combined wealth "than 95% of humanity". [ 5 ]
Federal Reserve data indicates that as of Q4 2021, the top 1% of households in the United States held 30.9% of the country's wealth, while the bottom 50% held 2.6%. [7] From 1989 to 2019, wealth became increasingly concentrated in the top 1% and top 10% due in large part to corporate stock ownership concentration in those segments of the ...
For those looking to have a more reasonable goal, a household net worth of $1.17 million will get you into the top 5%, and about $970,000 earning your household a spot in the top 10%. Getting into ...