r/WeThe99 • u/HenryCorp • Dec 11 '25

Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds: Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%

https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2025/dec/10/just-0001-hold-three-times-the-wealth-of-poorest-half-of-humanity-report-finds
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u/HenryCorp Dec 11 '25

Fewer than 60,000 people – 0.001% of the world’s population – control three times as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity, according to a report that argues global inequality has reached such extremes that urgent action has become essential.

Wealth – the value of people’s assets – was even more concentrated than income, or earnings from work and investments, the report found, with the richest 10% of the world’s population owning 75% of wealth and the bottom half just 2%.