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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 ...
The American upper class can be broken down into two groups: people of substantial means with a history of family wealth going back a century or more (called "old money") and families who have acquired their wealth more recently (e.g. fewer than 100 years), sometimes referred to as "new money".
This list uses the static rating published once a year by Forbes, usually in March or April. 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.
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.
The top 10% of Americans held 60% of all wealth in 2022, up from 56% in 1989. The top 1% held 27% of all wealth in 2022, up from 23% in 1989. Families in the bottom half held only 6% of wealth in ...
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 ...
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]
The U.S. Census Bureau found that the share of income going to the top 5% grew to 23.5% through 2022 from 23.0% three years earlier, continuing a trend that dates to the 1980s.