The richest 10 percent of the world’s population now owns three-quarters of all personal wealth, according to the newly released World Inequality Report 2026. Income is not much different, where the ...

In 2017, the business world paused at a shocking statistic: eight men held as much wealth as the poorest half of humanity. By ...

When researchers measure wealth inequality, they use something called the Gini coefficient. Think of it as a score between 0 and 1, where 0 means everyone has exactly the same wealth and 1 means one ...

A homeless man pushes a shopping cart full of his belongings across an intersection in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles. [AP Photo/Jae C. Hong] The recently released UBS Global Wealth Report 2025 ...

During the past year, global wealth among high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs) surged by 4.2%, with their population growing by 2.6%, according to Capgemini’s World Wealth Report 2025. This steady ...

Billionaire wealth in the United States surged to unprecedented levels last year as markets recovered and privately held enterprises reinforced the country’s dominance in global wealth creation. The ...

The wealth gap isn’t just growing. It’s reached a point where millionaire households control nearly half of all personal wealth on the planet, according to UBS’ 2025 Global Wealth Report. That ...