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'''The big blue human on the left represents 68.7% of people on earth which encompasses nearly 6 billion of the 8 billion people 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> and shows that they have less than $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 (in red above). The next, blue person, represents the next quarter if people on the earth. This section owns $10,000-$100,000 in wealth which is around 23% of the population on earth. If you combine the largest and second largest blue people together you can see that 7.5 billion people i.e. 91.6% of people earn less than $100,000. What's very revealing is that around 8.4% of the world's wealth, 41% belongs to the rest of the lucky 0.5 billion or 500 million people on earth.