{"id":4533,"date":"2025-12-19T23:48:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T23:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=4533"},"modified":"2025-12-19T23:48:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T23:48:25","slug":"just-0-001-hold-three-times-the-wealth-of-poorest-half-of-humanity-report-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2025\/12\/19\/just-0-001-hold-three-times-the-wealth-of-poorest-half-of-humanity-report-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The 2026 World Inequality Report reveals that just 0.001% of the population holds three times the wealth of the poorest half of humanity. Currently, the richest 10% own 75% of global assets, while the bottom 50% share only 2%, reflecting an extreme concentration of financial power. The study highlights a vast &#8220;geography of opportunity,&#8221; noting that education spending in wealthy nations is 40 times higher per child than in sub-Saharan Africa. Experts are calling for urgent political intervention and global taxes on the ultra-rich to protect economic resilience and democratic stability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> December 10, 2025. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/inequality\/2025\/dec\/10\/just-0001-hold-three-times-the-wealth-of-poorest-half-of-humanity-report-finds\">theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2026 World Inequality Report reveals that just 0.001% of the population holds three times the wealth of the poorest half of humanity. Currently, the richest 10% own 75% of global assets, while the bottom 50% share only 2%, reflecting an extreme concentration of financial power. The study highlights a vast &#8220;geography of opportunity,&#8221; noting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":4536,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-socio-economic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4537,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4533\/revisions\/4537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}