«There is no moral or economic justification for the six richest people in the world having as much wealth than the least wealthy half of the world population of 3.7 billion people put together.» This statement was made by Senator Bernie Sanders during a speech at Westminster College September 21, 2017.
Economic inequality in the United States was a Central issue during the presidential campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders. Apparently, this question has remained equally important for the Democrat today. But if earlier in support of his argument Sanders used a fairly primitive statistics at the country level, without delving into complex economic and social realities, today the basis of his position lies the global data, namely to assess the state of the world’s richest people.
The unhappy Saunders.
So, consider the facts, or rather the numbers are so indignant democratic Senator.
The total income of the six richest people in the world in real time, you can learn from Forbes. At the moment, their combined wealth is 462,6 billion dollars.
The size of the aggregate state of the «poorest» half of the world’s population is contained in a report by Oxfam in January 2017 and is only 409 billion dollars.
The investment company Credit Suisse estimated that the global state (all the wealth on Earth) in 2016 amounted to 256 trillion. And what is interesting, according to the analysis of only 1% of people on the planet owns wealth equivalent to 50.8% of global state. The second condition is the category of the rich (5%) is 77,69% of the total cost of ownership of the state of the world’s population, the third category (10%) – 89% of global state.
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The Sanders, are critical of the rich, long set in their list. According to the rating of Credit Suisse, he is somewhere between the category of the rich 1% and 5% with the state, estimated at $ 460 000 (as of 2014).
