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What's misleading about it? Check a PPP adjustment, it's still easily top 50% worldwide.

• ceejayoz 7y ago
  Which is a far cry from "top 5%", right?
  • ChrisLomont 7y ago
    The Washington Post article above puts it at around 90%. Here's an article saying 34K/yr puts you in the top 1% in the world [1], which is consistent with the above. Entering this number into my globalrichlist site gets 0.88% (pretty close) and the wapo article above gives 97th percentile, again close. If you have a similar site that computes world income rakings that doesn't reach such high values then please post it. [1] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2082385/We-1--You-need-34k-income-global-elite--half-worlds-richest-live-U-S.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2082385/We-1--You-n...
    • Gibbon1 7y ago
      I suggest you do more slumming in your travels.