The richest 10 percent of the world’s population now owns three-quarters of all personal wealth, according to the newly released World Inequality Report 2026. Income is not much different, where the ...
In 2017, the business world paused at a shocking statistic: eight men held as much wealth as the poorest half of humanity. By ...
When researchers measure wealth inequality, they use something called the Gini coefficient. Think of it as a score between 0 and 1, where 0 means everyone has exactly the same wealth and 1 means one ...
A homeless man pushes a shopping cart full of his belongings across an intersection in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles. [AP Photo/Jae C. Hong] The recently released UBS Global Wealth Report 2025 ...
Despite slowing economies in parts of Europe and Asia, global household wealth surged again in 2024, hitting a record €269 trillion (U$312.6 trillion). The new Allianz Global Wealth Report 2025 ...
The wealth gap isn’t just growing. It’s reached a point where millionaire households control nearly half of all personal wealth on the planet, according to UBS’ 2025 Global Wealth Report. That ...