Global Wealth Distribution
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An impressive graph, both in execution and content, to be taken with one big grain of salt (read article for important considerations on the methodology and the difficulty of defining wealth):
Wealth is shared much less equitably than income: more than half of it is held by just 2% of the world’s adults. The distribution is equivalent to a world of ten people, in which one had $1,000 and the other nine had $1 each.
The Economist, Winner takes (almost) all
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This may well be the most important graph for the entire globe. We need to know how wealthy we truly are in comparison to the world’s richest and poorest nations. There is no way of knowing how wealthy we, who may well be struggling for the preservation of our personal resources, actually are unless we deeply understand where we stand in comparison to the distribution of wealth in the poorest countries on earth.
Only with this information can we even begin to close the incredible gap between the tiny minority of incredibly wealthy people and the vast majority of human beings who desperately fight for their mere existence on this amazingly beautiful yet incredibly inequitable planet.