So it comes as little surprise that he highlighted global wealth inequality during a speech on foreign policy at Westminster College on Sept. 21. The figures on wealth in the bottom half of the world’s population come from a January 2017 report by Oxfam, which pulls its data from a 2016 report on global wealth inequality by the investment firm Credit Suisse. Credit Suisse estimates global wealth in 2016 at $256 trillion. The report breaks this global wealth into percentiles, with the bottom 10 percent owning -.43 percent of the world’s wealth and the top 10 percent owning 89 percent. This chart from the Credit Suisse report shows the share of adults in the lower half of global wealth distribution.

Source: Washington Post October 02, 2017 06:56 UTC