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![]() | The richest 1% of the world’s adult population owns 40% of | |
| trillion, or an average of $1.7 million each. | ||
![]() | The richest 10% owns 85% of the world’s wealth. | |
![]() | In other words, 90% of the world’s population fights over 15% | |
| of its wealth. | ||
![]() | The bottom half of the world’s population - 1.5 trillion adults | |
| subsist on only 1% of the world’s wealth, or $870 per person. (Source: U.N. Development Economics Research, 2000) |
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