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4 sourced facts about wealth and how it's distributed, each with the context behind the number. 4 more are in today's round and appear here after it closes.
Answer$145.8 trillion
U.S. household wealth reached about $145.8 trillion in 2021, the largest of any single country by a wide margin.
Source: UBS/Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report, via Wikipedia (2021) en.wikipedia.org
Answer1.1%
About 62.5 million adults, or roughly 1.1% of the world's adults, qualified as dollar millionaires in 2022.
Source: Credit Suisse, via Wikipedia (2022) en.wikipedia.org
Answer41.9%
Northern America was home to about 41.9% of the world's millionaires in 2022, ahead of Asia-Pacific at 28.4% and Europe at 26.7%.
Source: Global wealth data, via Wikipedia (2022) en.wikipedia.org
Answerabout 37.1%
After the Great Recession, the top 1% of Americans held about 37.1% of total household wealth, up from roughly 34.6% before it.
Source: Federal Reserve data, via Wikipedia (2009) en.wikipedia.org