From a poster series The World of 100 by Toby Ng looking at statistical information about the world. Found via Brainpickings
If you assume the world is made of 100 people then 6 people have 59% of the world’s net wealth. Unfortunately, I didn’t see any reference to the data source for this image but that sounds about right.
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