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New Data Shows the World’s Wealth Gap Has Never Been Wider

New Data Shows the World’s Wealth Gap Has Never Been Wider

Wednesday, December 10, 2025
The gap between the world’s richest and everyone else has reached mathematically surreal proportions. The newly released World Inequality Report estimates that fewer than 60,000 people — about 0.001% of the global population — now control three times more wealth than the entire bottom half of humanity. The report, released with the United Nations Development…