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More wealth than ever, but billions still starve » peoplesworld


 With only 5.2 percent of the world's population, the United States boasts 23 percent of the world's adults worth at least $100,000 and an even greater proportion, 41 percent, of the world's millionaires.


Meanwhile, the world's richest 1 percent - adults who have at least $588,000 to call their own - hold 43 percent of the world's wealth.

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