Americas

Comparing share of wealth by region/countries

by Catherine Mulbrandon

in Other

Instead of income this graph focuses on personal net worth. I found the pie chart at Metrics 2.0, depicting the share of personal wealth by region in 2000.

Regional wealth share

Average wealth amounted to $144,000 per person in the USA in year 2000, and $181,000 in Japan. Lower down among countries with wealth data are India, with per capita assets of $1,100, and Indonesia with $1,400 per capita.

[tags]wealth, net worth[/tags]

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TheOnion: Are America’s Rich Falling Behind The Super-Rich?

by Catherine Mulbrandon

in Other


In The Know: Are America’s Rich Falling Behind The Super-Rich?

Although this is a a brilliant parody from the Onion, the premise is true.

If you take look at this graph of the top 5% (comparing the top 1% to the next 4%) and this graph of Top 1% (comparing the top 0.1%, the next 0.4%, to the lower 0.5%), you can see how the richer you are the more your share of the total income in the US has increased since the 1970s.

[tags]income distribution, US income distribution, US income inequality, income inequality, onion, superrich[/tags]

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