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Almost half of the world’s wealth is now owned by just one percent of the population.
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The wealth of the one percent richest people in the world amounts to $110 trillion. That’s 65 times the total wealth of the bottom half of the world’s population.
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The bottom half of the world’s population (3.5billion people) owns the same as the richest 85 people in the world.
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Seven out of ten people live in countries where economic inequality has increased in the last 30 years.
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The richest one percent increased their share of income in 24 out of 26
countries for which we have data between 1980 and 2012.
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Last updated April 2014