{"id":73773,"date":"2017-11-15T01:42:27","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T09:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/richest-1-own-half-the-worlds-wealth-study-finds"},"modified":"2017-11-15T01:42:27","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T09:42:27","slug":"richest-1-own-half-the-worlds-wealth-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/richest-1-own-half-the-worlds-wealth-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"Richest 1% own half the world\u2019s wealth, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/richest-1-own-half-the-worlds-wealth-study-finds.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s richest people have seen their share of the globe\u2019s total wealth increase from 42.5% at the height of the 2008 financial crisis to 50.1% in 2017, or $140tn (\u00a3106tn), according to Credit Suisse\u2019s global wealth report published on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>At the other end of the spectrum, the world\u2019s 3.5 billion poorest adults each have assets of less than $10,000 (\u00a37,600). Collectively these people, who account for 70% of the world\u2019s working age population, account for just 2.7% of global wealth.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Credit Suisse report highlights increasing gap between the super-rich and the remainder of the globe\u2019s population.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/inequality\/2017\/nov\/14\/worlds-richest-wealth-credit-suisse\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/inequality\/2017\/nov\/14\/worlds-ri...dit-suisse<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s richest people have seen their share of the globe\u2019s total wealth increase from 42.5% at the height of the 2008 financial crisis to 50.1% in 2017, or $140tn (\u00a3106tn), according to Credit Suisse\u2019s global wealth report published on Tuesday. At the other end of the spectrum, the world\u2019s 3.5 billion poorest adults each [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}