About 56,000 people control three times as much wealth as half of humanity
Cruising around on private jets, the ultra-rich are the world’s financial elite – but how many people actually occupy this exclusive wealth club? Could they all fit into a floating mega-yacht, or is the group much bigger, possibly the size of a dazzling mega-rich city?
Thanks to an inequality report out on Wednesday, we now have a snapshot of the size of the topmost layer floating above everyone else – the 0.001%.
The report estimates there are 56,000 of these zero-point-zero-zero-one-ers, and if they gathered for a party, the group would fit into the seats of a medium-sized football stadium, such as Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium or the Stadio Olimpico in Rome.