What % of the population is wealthy? Any stats?

Question

Does anyone have a link that gives population totals according to income level?

Answer 1

In what country?

Also, wealth has relatively little to do with income. It is not unheard of for a wealthy household to have a negative income every now and then. Wealth is first and foremost about assets...

Answer 2

It's been the common belief that the wealthy comprises 3-5% of the world population.

Forbes magazine always puts out an issue of the world's wealthiest. Perhaps their site has a link.

Answer 3

Here is a link for income data in the US. Graphs on how much, changes over time, and even information on who the wealthy are http://www.visualizingeconomics.com/category/graph/

Answer 4

6--15% of the country.

The question of true wealth can be answered with three conditions:
1. Enough money so one need not worry about medical expenses regardless of their amount.
2. Sufficient investment money to handle all normative life activities for as long as one lives.
3. Money enough to hire another or other to do what one desires to be done 100% of the time.

Any other definition is bullswool.
The sick, sad thing is those who are being paid such amounts or inherited them are less intelligent, less moral, less capable and less ethical on average than those of us who deserve the level of payment they are being handed by government's postmodernist criminal tsars and anti-scientific pragmatic power-mongering charlatans.

Answer 5

If you're talking about the US, go to the folks in the know:

www.census.gov

You can do queries and get tables of just about anything you want.