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World inequality is initially difficult to grasp, but | World inequality is initially difficult to grasp, but 🐻 with us. The image below seperates the world based on their wealth... | ||
[[File:World inequality.jpg|alt=World inequality|center|700x700px|World inequality]] | [[File:World inequality.jpg|alt=World inequality|center|700x700px|World inequality]] | ||
The big person on the left shows that 68.7% of people on earth, that's nearly 6 billion of the 8 billion on earth<ref>''United Nations Department of Department of Economic and Social Affairs:World Population Prospects published in 2019, accessed via this [https://population.un.org/wpp/ link] on 10th February 2022..''</ref> have less that $10,000. | '''The big person on the left shows that 68.7% of people on earth, that's nearly 6 billion of the 8 billion on earth<ref>''United Nations Department of Department of Economic and Social Affairs:World Population Prospects published in 2019, accessed via this [https://population.un.org/wpp/ link] on 10th February 2022..''</ref> have less that $10,000.''' Let that sink in for a moment, the majority of the people on this planet live on less than 3% of its wealth. The next rung, people who have $10,000-$100,000 equate to 22.99% of the population. So around 7.5 billion people out of 8 billion earn less than $100,000.What's very revealing is that around 8% of the world's wealth belongs to the rest of the lucky 0.5 billion or 500 million people on earth. | ||
Revision as of 23:15, 9 February 2022
World inequality is initially difficult to grasp, but 🐻 with us. The image below seperates the world based on their wealth...
The big person on the left shows that 68.7% of people on earth, that's nearly 6 billion of the 8 billion on earth[1] have less that $10,000. Let that sink in for a moment, the majority of the people on this planet live on less than 3% of its wealth. The next rung, people who have $10,000-$100,000 equate to 22.99% of the population. So around 7.5 billion people out of 8 billion earn less than $100,000.What's very revealing is that around 8% of the world's wealth belongs to the rest of the lucky 0.5 billion or 500 million people on earth.