STUDY OF PERSONAL WEALTH World Institute for Development Economics Research
500000$
The richest one percent are adults worth at least five hundred thousand dollars
1%
More than half lived in the United States or Japan.
61000$
The richest ten percent are adults worth at least sixty-one thousand dollars.
10% 2200$
Adults worth at least two thousand two hundred dollars were in the top half of world wealth.
2200$
Adults worth less than two thousand two hundred dollars were in the bottom half of world wealth.
50%
50%
More than 50% Belongs to 2% of Adults The findings were presented in Helsinki, London and New York The report is from the World Institute for Development Economics Research, part of the United Nations University in Helsinki, Finland.
0.1$
0.1$
0.1$
0.1$
0.1$
0.1$
0.1$
0.1$
0.1$
99$
To Simplify the Numbers
The director of the institute, Anthony Shorrocks, offered a simple way to think of all these numbers. If the world had only ten people, he says, one person would have ninety-nine dollars. The other nine people would have to share one dollar.
Data retrieved from Voice of America news.