{"id":4543,"date":"2025-12-20T00:15:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T00:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=4543"},"modified":"2025-12-20T00:15:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T00:15:42","slug":"where-in-the-world-are-wealth-and-income-most-unequal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2025\/12\/20\/where-in-the-world-are-wealth-and-income-most-unequal\/","title":{"rendered":"Where in the world are wealth and income most unequal?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The 2026 World Inequality Report highlights that the richest 10% of the global population now controls 75% of all wealth, while the bottom half owns just 2%. South Africa is identified as the world&#8217;s most unequal country, with its top 10% holding 85% of national wealth and earning 66% of total income. While European nations like Sweden and Norway show lower disparity, global wealth is still growing twice as fast as the overall economy. Consequently, the top 0.001% now commands three times as much wealth as the bottom 50% of the entire human population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> December 10, 2025. <strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/12\/10\/where-in-the-world-are-wealth-and-income-most-unequal\">aljazeera.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2026 World Inequality Report highlights that the richest 10% of the global population now controls 75% of all wealth, while the bottom half owns just 2%. South Africa is identified as the world&#8217;s most unequal country, with its top 10% holding 85% of national wealth and earning 66% of total income. While European nations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":4544,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4543","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\/4543","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=4543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4547,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543\/revisions\/4547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}