Distribution of wealth (English Wikipedia)

Fig. 2 of Sullivan, Briana (July 2025). "Wealth of Households: 2023 (P70BR-211)" (PDF). US Census Bureau. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 26, 2025.
Sullivan, Briana (July 2025). "Wealth of Households: 2023 (P70BR-211)" (PDF). US Census Bureau. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 26, 2025.

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Channer, Harold Hudson (July 25, 2011). "TV interview with Dr. Ravi Batra". Retrieved October 21, 2011.

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"The World Factbook – Central Intelligence Agency". Cia.gov. Archived from the original on July 16, 2017. Retrieved September 10, 2016.

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Pepitone, Julianne. "Forbes 400: The super-rich get richer". money.cnn.com. Archived from the original on 2013-08-28. Retrieved 2026-05-22.

edition.cnn.com

Buffett: 'There are lots of loose nukes around the world' Archived 30 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine CNN.com

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Simulation of wealth concentration according to Fargione, Lehman, and Polasky

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"Wealth share of the richest". Our World in Data. Pick Richest 1% or 10% from menu at top. Go to source for more interactivity. See Commons file page.

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"Global wealth report". Credit Suisse. Retrieved April 27, 2022.
Source Credit Suisse, Research Institute – Global Wealth Databook 2021

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"Global Wealth Report 2013". credit-suisse.com. Archived from the original on February 14, 2015. Retrieved June 30, 2016.

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Davies, J.B.; Shorrocks, A.F. (2000). "The distribution of wealth". Handbook of Income Distribution. 1: 605–675. doi:10.1016/S1574-0056(00)80014-7.
McGuire, R. H.; Netting, R. M. (1982). "Leveling Peasants? The Maintenance of Equality in a Swiss Alpine Community". American Ethnologist. 9 (2): 269–290. doi:10.1525/ae.1982.9.2.02a00040.
Smith, M. E.; Dennehy, T.; Kamp-Whittaker, A.; Colon, E.; Harkness, R. (2014). "Quantitative measures of wealth inequality in ancient central Mexican communities". Advances in Archaeological Practice. 2 (4): 311–323. doi:10.7183/2326-3768.2.4.XX.
Kohler, Timothy; Smith, Michael; Bogaard, Amy; Feinman, Gary; Peterson, Christian; Betzenhauser, Alleen (2017). "Greater post-Neolithic wealth disparities in Eurasia than in North America and Mesoamerica". Nature. 551 (7682): 619–622. Bibcode:2017Natur.551..619K. doi:10.1038/nature24646. PMC 5714260. PMID 29143817.
Burdaa, Z.; et al. (January 22, 2001). "Wealth Condensation in Pareto Macro-Economies" (PDF). Physical Review E. 65 (2) 026102. arXiv:cond-mat/0101068. Bibcode:2002PhRvE..65b6102B. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.65.026102. PMID 11863582. S2CID 8822002. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 18, 2021. Retrieved September 11, 2013.
Joseph E. Fargione et al.: Entrepreneurs, Chance, and the Deterministic Concentration of Wealth.

economist.com (Global: 331^st place; English: 272^nd place)

"Free exchange: The real wealth of nations". The Economist. June 30, 2012. Retrieved July 14, 2012.
Staff (March 18, 2014). "Inequality – Inherited wealth". The Economist. Retrieved August 24, 2014.

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Rugaber, Christopher S.; Boak, Josh (January 27, 2014). "Wealth gap: A guide to what it is, why it matters". AP News. Archived from the original on March 16, 2019. Retrieved January 27, 2014.

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"Changes in U.S. Family Finances from 2019 to 2022" (PDF). Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (US). October 2023. p. 12 (Table 2). Archived (PDF) from the original on December 25, 2023.

forbes.com (Global: 71^st place; English: 54^th place)

Occupy Wall Street And The Rhetoric of Equality Forbes November 1, 2011, by Deborah L. Jacobs
"The World's Billionaires". forbes.com. Archived from the original on 3 April 2013. Retrieved 1 May 2018.

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Norton, M. I., & Ariely, D., "Building a Better America – One Wealth Quintile at a Time", Perspectives on Psychological Science, January 2011 6: 9-12

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Moore, Michael (March 6, 2011). "America Is Not Broke". Huffington Post. Retrieved August 11, 2013.

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Davies, James B.; Sandström, Susanna; Shorrocks, Anthony F.; Wolff, Edward N. "Estimating the World Distribution of Household Wealth" (PDF). Institution/Country: University of Western Ontario, Canada; WIDER-UNU. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 2, 2020. Retrieved September 10, 2016.

inequality.org (Global: low place; English: low place)

Pizzigati, Sam (September 24, 2012). "The 'Self-Made' Hallucination of America's Rich". Institute for Policy Studies. Retrieved August 24, 2014.

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Working Paper No. 589 Recent Trends in Household Wealth in the United States: Rising Debt and the Middle-Class Squeeze – an Update to 2007 by Edward N. Wolff, Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, March 2010

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Burdaa, Z.; et al. (January 22, 2001). "Wealth Condensation in Pareto Macro-Economies" (PDF). Physical Review E. 65 (2) 026102. arXiv:cond-mat/0101068. Bibcode:2002PhRvE..65b6102B. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.65.026102. PMID 11863582. S2CID 8822002. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 18, 2021. Retrieved September 11, 2013.

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Moore, Michael (March 7, 2011). "The Forbes 400 vs. Everybody Else". michaelmoore.com. Archived from the original on March 9, 2011. Retrieved August 11, 2013.

money.com (Global: low place; English: 8,407^th place)

Davidson, Jacob (January 21, 2015). "Yes, Oxfam, the Richest 1% Have Most of the Wealth. But That Means Less Than You Think". Money. Archived from the original on April 27, 2022.

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"Why it is hard to share the wealth". New Scientist. March 12, 2005. Retrieved March 26, 2012.

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pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Kohler, Timothy; Smith, Michael; Bogaard, Amy; Feinman, Gary; Peterson, Christian; Betzenhauser, Alleen (2017). "Greater post-Neolithic wealth disparities in Eurasia than in North America and Mesoamerica". Nature. 551 (7682): 619–622. Bibcode:2017Natur.551..619K. doi:10.1038/nature24646. PMC 5714260. PMID 29143817.
Burdaa, Z.; et al. (January 22, 2001). "Wealth Condensation in Pareto Macro-Economies" (PDF). Physical Review E. 65 (2) 026102. arXiv:cond-mat/0101068. Bibcode:2002PhRvE..65b6102B. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.65.026102. PMID 11863582. S2CID 8822002. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 18, 2021. Retrieved September 11, 2013.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Kohler, Timothy; Smith, Michael; Bogaard, Amy; Feinman, Gary; Peterson, Christian; Betzenhauser, Alleen (2017). "Greater post-Neolithic wealth disparities in Eurasia than in North America and Mesoamerica". Nature. 551 (7682): 619–622. Bibcode:2017Natur.551..619K. doi:10.1038/nature24646. PMC 5714260. PMID 29143817.

nytimes.com (Global: 7^th place; English: 7^th place)

Buffett, Warren (26 November 2006). "In Class Warfare, Guess Which Class is Winning". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 3 January 2017.

ourworldindata.org (Global: 2,491^st place; English: 1,740^th place)

"Wealth share of the richest". Our World in Data. Pick Richest 1% or 10% from menu at top. Go to source for more interactivity. See Commons file page.

oxfam.org (Global: low place; English: low place)

"62 people own same as half world – Oxfam | Press releases | Oxfam GB". Oxfam.org.uk. January 18, 2016. Retrieved September 10, 2016.
"Inequality kills". Oxfam International. January 19, 2022. Retrieved April 20, 2022.
"178 Oxfam Briefing Paoer" (PDF). Oxfam.org. January 20, 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 8, 2019. Retrieved September 10, 2016.

politifact.com (Global: 3,520^th place; English: 1,999^th place)

Kertscher, Tom; Borowski, Greg (March 10, 2011). "The Truth-O-Meter Says: True – Michael Moore says 400 Americans have more wealth than half of all Americans combined". PolitiFact. Retrieved August 11, 2013.

rrojasdatabank.info (Global: low place; English: low place)

James B. Davies, Susanna Sandstrom, Anthony Shorrocks, and Edward N. Wolff (Dec 5, 2006). "Pioneering Study Shows Richest Two Percent Own Half World Wealth". www.rrojasdatabank.info. UNU-WIDER.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

salon.com (Global: 683^rd place; English: 407^th place)

Bruenig, Matt (March 24, 2014). "You call this a meritocracy? How rich inheritance is poisoning the American economy". Salon. Retrieved August 24, 2014.

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Financial world dominated by a few deep pockets. By Rachel Ehrenberg. September 24, 2011; Vol. 180 #7 (p. 13). Science News. Citation is in the right sidebar. Paper is here with PDF here .

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Burdaa, Z.; et al. (January 22, 2001). "Wealth Condensation in Pareto Macro-Economies" (PDF). Physical Review E. 65 (2) 026102. arXiv:cond-mat/0101068. Bibcode:2002PhRvE..65b6102B. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.65.026102. PMID 11863582. S2CID 8822002. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 18, 2021. Retrieved September 11, 2013.

theglobeandmail.com (Global: 336^th place; English: 179^th place)

The rich really do own the world December 5, 2006

theguardian.com (Global: 16^th place; English: 11^th place)

"World's 10 richest men see their wealth double during Covid pandemic". the Guardian. January 17, 2022. Retrieved April 24, 2022.

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sociology.ucsc.edu

Wealth, Income, and Power Archived 2011-10-20 at the Wayback Machine by G. William Domhoff of the UC-Santa Barbara Sociology Department

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ihdp.unu.edu

"Inclusive Wealth Report – IHDP". Ihdp.unu.edu. July 9, 2012. Archived from the original on June 30, 2012. Retrieved July 14, 2012.

wider.unu.edu

Data for the following table obtained from UNU-WIDER World Distribution of Household Wealth Report Archived July 16, 2010, at the Wayback Machine (The University of California also hosts a copy of the report)

web.archive.org (Global: 1^st place; English: 1^st place)

Davies, James B.; Sandström, Susanna; Shorrocks, Anthony F.; Wolff, Edward N. "Estimating the World Distribution of Household Wealth" (PDF). Institution/Country: University of Western Ontario, Canada; WIDER-UNU. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 2, 2020. Retrieved September 10, 2016.
"Inclusive Wealth Report – IHDP". Ihdp.unu.edu. July 9, 2012. Archived from the original on June 30, 2012. Retrieved July 14, 2012.
Davidson, Jacob (January 21, 2015). "Yes, Oxfam, the Richest 1% Have Most of the Wealth. But That Means Less Than You Think". Money. Archived from the original on April 27, 2022.
"The World Factbook – Central Intelligence Agency". Cia.gov. Archived from the original on July 16, 2017. Retrieved September 10, 2016.
"Global Wealth Report 2013". credit-suisse.com. Archived from the original on February 14, 2015. Retrieved June 30, 2016.
"World Inequality Report 2026" (PDF). World Inequality Lab. 10 December 2025. pp. 12, 14. Archived (PDF) from the original on 10 December 2025.
Wealth, Income, and Power Archived 2011-10-20 at the Wayback Machine by G. William Domhoff of the UC-Santa Barbara Sociology Department
Data for the following table obtained from UNU-WIDER World Distribution of Household Wealth Report Archived July 16, 2010, at the Wayback Machine (The University of California also hosts a copy of the report)
"Evolution of wealth indicators, USA, 1913-2019". WID.world. World Inequality Database. 2022. Archived from the original on July 5, 2023. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
"Changes in U.S. Family Finances from 2019 to 2022" (PDF). Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (US). October 2023. p. 12 (Table 2). Archived (PDF) from the original on December 25, 2023.
Fig. 2 of Sullivan, Briana (July 2025). "Wealth of Households: 2023 (P70BR-211)" (PDF). US Census Bureau. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 26, 2025.
Sullivan, Brianna; Hays, Donald; Bennett, Neil (June 2023). "The Wealth of Households: 2021 / Current Population Reports / P70BR-183" (PDF). United States Census Bureau. p. 5 (Figure 2). Archived (PDF) from the original on May 24, 2024.
Sullivan, Briana (July 2025). "Wealth of Households: 2023 (P70BR-211)" (PDF). US Census Bureau. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 26, 2025.
Federal Reserve’s 2022 Survey of Consumer Finances as reported by Bennett, Karen; Subitch, Rhys; Brock, Thomas (February 27, 2026). "The average amount in U.S. savings accounts – how does your cash stack up?". Bankrate.com. Archived from the original on April 8, 2026.
Moore, Michael (March 7, 2011). "The Forbes 400 vs. Everybody Else". michaelmoore.com. Archived from the original on March 9, 2011. Retrieved August 11, 2013.
Pepitone, Julianne. "Forbes 400: The super-rich get richer". money.cnn.com. Archived from the original on 2013-08-28. Retrieved 2026-05-22.
Burdaa, Z.; et al. (January 22, 2001). "Wealth Condensation in Pareto Macro-Economies" (PDF). Physical Review E. 65 (2) 026102. arXiv:cond-mat/0101068. Bibcode:2002PhRvE..65b6102B. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.65.026102. PMID 11863582. S2CID 8822002. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 18, 2021. Retrieved September 11, 2013.
Rugaber, Christopher S.; Boak, Josh (January 27, 2014). "Wealth gap: A guide to what it is, why it matters". AP News. Archived from the original on March 16, 2019. Retrieved January 27, 2014.
"The World's Billionaires". forbes.com. Archived from the original on 3 April 2013. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
Buffett: 'There are lots of loose nukes around the world' Archived 30 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine CNN.com
Buffett, Warren (26 November 2006). "In Class Warfare, Guess Which Class is Winning". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 3 January 2017.
"178 Oxfam Briefing Paoer" (PDF). Oxfam.org. January 20, 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 8, 2019. Retrieved September 10, 2016.

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"World Inequality Report 2026" (PDF). World Inequality Lab. 10 December 2025. pp. 12, 14. Archived (PDF) from the original on 10 December 2025.

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"Evolution of wealth indicators, USA, 1913-2019". WID.world. World Inequality Database. 2022. Archived from the original on July 5, 2023. Retrieved September 6, 2023.

Distribution of wealth (English Wikipedia)

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