Note that this is global wealth, whereas golergka&#x27;s link is about the US specifically.<p>Turns out, the world in general has a lot more poor people (both absolute, and as a fraction of the population) than the US does, so globally more wealth is concentrated in a smaller population fraction.<p>I agree that for the world at large the wealth distribution is clearly not good.  The good news is that it&#x27;s been getting a lot better in the last few decades, largely due to India and especially China moving people out of poverty by the hundreds of millions.<p>For the US specifically, things are less clear.