Although the graphic is nothing special you don’t see this data very often. Change in overall wealth (not income). The rich suffered a smaller percentage decline than did the bottom 90% from 2007-2009.
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Net Worth
From a poster series The World of 100 by Toby Ng looking at statistical information about the world. Found via Brainpickings
If you assume the world is made of 100 people then 6 people have 59% of the world’s net wealth. Unfortunately, I didn’t see any reference to the data source for this image but that sounds about right.
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Red line = net worth of at least $1 million (not including primary residences)
Gray line = number of households with investible assets of at least $1 million
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From Economic Report of the President found via Economix Blog – NYTimes.com. The graph compares the % change in consumer spending (dark line) to % change in household wealth.
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