Combining data from surveys, inheritance tax records, and rich lists, we estimate top wealth shares for Australia from World War I until the present day. We find that the top 1 percent share declined by two-thirds from 1915 until the late 1960s, and rose from the late 1970s to 2010. ...
One interesting stat: going from the top 10% of wealth to the top 1% requires a significant jump while income "only" requires a much smaller bump. How many people are in the top 1%? Depending on your preference, there are roughly 1,313,064 households in the top one percent or 1,784...
"the average wealth of each adult belonging to the richest 1 percent is $1.7 million, more than 300 times greater than the wealth of the average person in the poorest 90 percent, although for many people in the bottom 10 percent, their wealth is zero or negative," the report s...
Households in the top one percent by total wealth own vastly disproportionate quantities of household assets and have correspondingly high levels of economic, social, and political influence. The overrepresentation of white natives (i.e., those born in the U.S.) among high-wealth households is ...
The top 1 percent held about half of that wealth – 32.1 percent, while the next 9 percent held approximately another half at 37.7 percent. The bottom 50 percent of U.S. residents only held 2 percent of all of U.S. wealth. As recently as 2011, that number was as low as 0.4 percent...
[translate] acrumlbe crumlbes [translate] acrumlb crumlbe [translate] aThe top 1 percent of the population now has wealth equal to the whole bottom 95 percent and they want more. 人口的名列前茅1%现在有财富相等与整体底部95%,并且他们想要更多。 [translate] ...
has the largest capital reserve per capita of any nation in the world. The government has made good use of the financial surplus it has earned through oil sales; The Government Pension Fund of Norway has over US$1.19 trillion in assets, and it is the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund...
To read the chart: a dollar amount is the "threshold" between net worth brackets. More (or equal) wealth would go into the bracket shown, less would slot into the percentile right below. For a round number look at some of the upper brackets, see themillionaires in Americapost. ...
It has a wealth of natural resources, including oil, gas, and coal. As such, the country can support its own energy needs as well as export natural resources to other countries.33738 Despite this fact, Canada is also a world leader in the production and use of renewable energy sources, ...
Probably one of the oldest and most popular Internet scams used mostly by a member of a Nigerian family with wealth to trick different people. It is also known as “Nigerian 419”, and named after the section of Nigeria’s Criminal Code that banned the practice. A typical Nigerian scam inv...