{"id":22212,"date":"2017-11-17T08:53:35","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T07:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=22212"},"modified":"2017-11-17T08:53:35","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T07:53:35","slug":"just-of-the-worlds-population-owns-half-the-total-wealth-of-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=22212","title":{"rendered":"Just !% of the world&#8217;s population owns half the total wealth of the planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Credit Suisse\u2019s latest annual global wealth report published earlier this week, \u00a0the globe\u2019s richest 1% now owns half the world\u2019s wealth.\u00a0The 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),<\/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<p>More information on the report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.credit-suisse.com\/corporate\/en\/articles\/news-and-expertise\/global-wealth-report-2017-201711.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Credit Suisse\u2019s latest annual global wealth report published earlier this week, \u00a0the globe\u2019s richest 1% now owns half the world\u2019s wealth.\u00a0The 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), At the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22212"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22216,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22212\/revisions\/22216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}