Raport de inegalitate socială

To estimate the world distribution of household wealth across

individuals, countries and regions

- wealth = real property + financial assets - debts

- results are for year 2000

- compared across countries using exchange rates or PPP

- global wealth distribution for adult population

world wealth distribution needs information for each country on:

(1) population

(2) average wealth level: based on household balance sheets and wealth survey

data for 38 countries (56% of the world population and 80% of wealth)

- extended by regression methods to most other countries

- region-income class averages imputed to remaining countries

(3) distribution of wealth: based on distribution data for 20 countries

- wealth concentration estimated from income distribution for most other

countries

- region-income class averages imputed to remaining countries