Nearly one-third of U.S. household wealth was held by the top 1% in the third quarter of 2025.

The K-shaped economy is to be blamed for this kind of disparity.

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 ...

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 ...

Global wealth is concentrated at the top. This is true for all countries to varying degrees. Yet—according to the World Inequality Database—in almost all nations, the richest 10% hold more than 50% of ...

Wealth league tables promise clarity, ranking countries by how fairly they share prosperity. Yet when those scorecards label the Netherlands and the USA as outliers, they often obscure more than they ...

The richest 10% in the eurozone held 57.3% of total net household wealth in the final quarter of 2024. This is 2.8 percentage points higher than in the same period of 2009, when their share was 54.5%, ...

Earlier this month, scholars working at the London School of Economics argued, “It’s time to face up to power in the debate about wealth inequality.” The authors note that of the various ways we could ...

When it comes to wealth inequality, does the source of the wealth matter? Might there be a different economic impact of wealth derived from entrepreneurial riches versus that of inherited fortunes? A ...

Wealth inequality began shaping human societies more than 10,000 years ago, long before the rise of ancient empires or the invention of writing. That's according to a new study that challenges ...

PULLMAN, Wash. — Wealth inequality began shaping human societies more than 10,000 years ago, long before the rise of ancient empires or the invention of writing. That’s according to a new study led by ...