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This is a list of the world's countries measuring the income of the richest one percent each (before taxes and transfers). The source of the data is the United Nations Development Programme, and refers to the latest available date. [1] Countries unlisted have no data available.
In 2000, the top 1 percent held 45.5 percent of the world's wealth. Today, they hold 50.1 percent — more than half of the rest of the world.
To be among the richest 1% of Americans, you now need at least $5.8 million. This is up from $5.1 million last year, according to Knight Frank's 2024 Wealth Report. Globally, the entry point to ...
The World Distribution of Household Wealth. 5 December 2006. By James B. Davies, Susanna Sandstrom, Anthony Shorrocks, and Edward N. Wolff. Tables to the 2006 report in Excel (including Gini coefficients for 229 countries). UNU-WIDER. World's richest 1% own 40% of all wealth, UN report discovers. 6 December 2006. By James Randerson.
In the 32nd annual Forbes list of the world's billionaires, the aggregate wealth of the top 20 richest people on Earth amounted to about 13 percent of all billionaires' fortunes combined. [16] A record of 2,208 billionaires were in the ranking and the total wealth was $9.1 trillion, up 18% since 2017.
In fact, the world's richest 1% of people own more wealth than the rest of humanity, according to a report by Oxfam, a non-profit that focuses on fighting global poverty.
3 Knight Frank's Wealth Report. 4 See also. ... World: 2,781: 0.343 1 11 ... List of countries by share of income of the richest one percent; The World's Billionaires;
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 ...