America IS the 1%: You need just $34,000 年次の income to be in the 全世界の エリート... and HALF the world's richest people live in the U.S.

• 全世界の median salary is $1,225, says 主要な 経済学者
  

By Hugo Gye
Updated: 11:27 BST, 5 January 2012

Nearly half of the world's richest one per cent of people live in the U.S., によれば a 最高の，を越す 経済学者.

But the threshold 要求するd to make it in to that エリート group is lower than you might think - just $34,000 per person.

While the 占領する 塀で囲む Street movement has focussed on the 最高の，を越す one per cent of earners in the U.S., Branko Milanovic, a World Bank 経済学者, has 示唆するd that anti-不平等 抗議する人s should be more 関心d with wealth 不平等 across the globe.

The 1%: Half of the world's wealthiest people live in the U.S.

And although the rise of the middle class in the 第三世界 has been loudly celebrated, Mr Milanovic points out that a middle-class salary in 現れるing economies would be considered 悲惨な poverty in the West.

Of the 60million or so people who made up the world's richest percentile at the time of the most 最近の data, around 29million live in the U.S.

The 最高の，を越す one per cent 構成するs anyone with an income over $34,000 after 税金, meaning a family of four must earn $136,000 to make it in the 部類, によれば CNN.

One ４半期/4分の1 of the group's members live in Europe, with 4million in Germany and 3million in each of the UK, フラン and Italy. Other countries with large numbers of 'the 1%' 含む Canada, Japan and Brazil.

抗議する: The 占領する movement uses the スローガン 'We are the 99%'

The 割合 of the world's wealthiest people living in 中国, India, Russia and Africa is statistically insignificant, によれば Mr Milanovic.

And the 全世界の median income is just $1,225 a year, meaning that the world's 現れるing middle classes are very far from reaching a level of wealth which would make them 井戸／弁護士席-off by western 基準s.

Mr Milanovic said: 'It doesn't seem 権利 to define as middle class people who would be on food stamps in the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs.'

議論の的になる: Branko Milanovic's 見解（をとる）s challenge 正統派の 見解（をとる）s of 不平等

His findings, first 輪郭（を描く）d in his 調書をとる／予約する The 有産国 and the Have-Nots, published last year, serve as a 思い出の品 that にもかかわらず the West's troubles it remains very much wealthier than the developing world.

The 経済的な decli ne of the U.S., Europe and Japan has been 広範囲にわたって 予報するd, but for the time 存在 nearly all the world's rich are to be 設立する in the West.

Even the poorest people in many developed countries are 豊富な by 全世界の 基準s - for example, the poorest five per cent of Americans earn on 普通の／平均（する） the same as the richest five per cent of Indians.

The 占領する 抗議するs have so far 的d 不平等 within rich economies.

To make it in to the 悪名高い 最高の，を越す one per cent of earners in the U.S., it is necessary to have an 年次の income over $500,000.