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Half the world's wealth is owned by 1% of the population of the earth
10/14/15
Agencies - A report of the institution, "Credit Suisse", a massive increase in inequality in the world and the deterioration of the situation of the middle class in various countries for the benefit of a very rich class, revealing that half of the world's wealth is concentrated in the hands of only 1% of the population.
According to the report, more or about 3.4 billion people, 70% of the world's population, wealth is not one of them up to 10 thousand dollars, while the world's population of five billion people, or about the scope of their wealth is located between 10 and 100 thousand dollars.
The remainder of the world's population of 383 million people over the same wealth of them for a hundred thousand dollars, including 34 million millionaire. Of these, 123 thousand and 800 people, one of them a fortune of more than $ 50 million, 45 thousand more than one of them a fortune for a hundred million dollars.
And it adopted the report measure of wealth, including assets owned by the person, as the value of real estate, stocks and other, except for the debt.
One needs to possess to $ 3210 to be within the affluent half the world's population, while owning 86 thousand and $ 800 will ensure you a place among the richest 10%, and engage in a one-percent richer setting calls to possess 759 thousand and $ 900.
The report concludes that "inequality in wealth is increasing in the world since 2008, even the one percent become richer accounts for 50.4% of the wealth in the world."
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