2022-09-04 · Global household wealth
The bottom half of adults own 2% of wealth
This grid is money, not people. The poorest 50% of adults share twenty squares. The richest 1% take 380. The picture is ownership, not income.
1 cell = 450 billion USD of household wealth (0.1% of global household wealth) · 1,000 cells
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This grid is money, not people. The poorest 50% of adults share twenty squares. The richest 1% take 380. The picture is ownership, not income.
World Inequality Report 2022 (World Inequality Lab): top 1% ≈38% of global wealth; next 9% ≈38%; middle 40% ≈22%; bottom 50% ≈2%.
Dollar stock is a rounded ~$450 trillion (2022-order household wealth), not a WID micro-estimate.
This grid fixes global household wealth at 1,000 equal cells (0.1% of global household wealth). Figures follow World Inequality Report 2022 as summarized in the source line — rounded so cell counts sum to the chart.