What percentage of US wealth is owned by the top 1?

A September 2017 study by the Federal Reserve reported that the top 1\% owned 38.5\% of the country’s wealth in 2016. According to a June 2017 report by the Boston Consulting Group, around 70\% of the nation’s wealth will be in the hands of millionaires and billionaires by 2021.

How much of America’s wealth does the 1 hold?

The top 1 percent held about half of that wealth – 32.1 percent, while the next 9 percent held approximately another half at 37.7 percent. The bottom 50 percent of U.S. residents only held 2 percent of all of U.S. wealth.

Why is wealth concentrated?

Wealth typically concentrates at the top because the wealthy can generally invest their wealth at a rate of return greater than the rate of increase in the country’s overall wealth. The wealth ordinary folks hold in the form of home equity, savings accounts, and modest retirement accounts can’t grow nearly as quickly.

How much of the world’s wealth is owned by the ultra-rich?

The gross world product was calculated by the Statistic Times by combining the gross national product of all of the countries in the world for 2018 at $84.84 trillion. This means that the ultra-rich own 10\% of global finances. The 2018 Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report provides data of where the top 10\% of the global wealth holders reside:

How big is the wealth gap between the rich and poor?

As a result, the wealth gap between America’s richest and poorer families more than doubled from 1989 to 2016. In 1989, the richest 5\% of families had 114 times as much wealth as families in the second quintile, $2.3 million compared with $20,300. By 2016, this ratio had increased to 248, a much sharper rise than the widening gap in income. 13

What is wealth distribution in economics?

Wealth distribution is a comparison of assets, income, and earnings among a group, or multiple groups of people. In a utopian world, wealth distribution might look like a straight or slightly slanted line on a graph that represents wealth as an equal or relative measure shared by all.

Is wealth inequality increasing in the US?

Unfortunately, both global and U.S. national wealth distribution inequality is rising as the economic gap broadens, and the top 1\% is rapidly increasing in wealth while the rest of the population flounders. The terms “wealthy” and “rich” are not the same.