Three highly depressing charts on the extent of global wealth inequality

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This month it was reported, by Knight Frank, that there are 172,850 ultra-high net worth individuals on the planet, the one per cent of the one per cent, with fortunes of at least $30million.


A separate report issued last year from Credit Suisse didn’t break down the millionaires into such detail, but compared the amount of wealth that the 35million richest people in the world owned with the other 7.2billion people.