1%な話

Jill Treanor “Richest 1% of people own nearly half of global wealth, says report” http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/oct/14/richest-1percent-half-global-wealth-credit-suisse-report


2011年のOccupy Wall Street運動*1においては、1%たる奴らと99%の我々という対比がなされたが、クレディ・スイスの調査によると、上位10%の富裕層が世界の富の87%を所有し、世界の財産の約半分(48.2%)は上位1%に集中している;


Credit Suisse Research Institute Global Wealth Report 2014 (October 2014) https://publications.credit-suisse.com/tasks/render/file/?fileID=60931FDE-A2D2-F568-B041B58C5EA591A4


なお、今年1月にはOxfamが同様な報告を提出している;


Graeme Wearden “Oxfam: 85 richest people as wealthy as poorest half of the world” http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jan/20/oxfam-85-richest-people-half-of-the-world
Oxfam “Working for the New: Political capture and economic inequality” (Summery) http://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/bp-working-for-few-political-capture-economic-inequality-200114-summ-en.pdf


また、クレディ・スイスの報告では、米国の富の伸びが収入(income)の伸びと比べてペースが速いことに警告を発している;


Other calculations by the Credit Suisse team “hint at raising global wealth inequality in recent years” and show that overall wealth in the US has grown at a faster pace than incomes. The authors warned it was a trend that could point to recession.

“For more than a century, the wealth income ratio has typically fallen in a narrow interval between 4 and 5. However, the ratio briefly rose above 6 in 1999 during the dotcom bubble and broke that barrier again during 2005–2007. It dropped sharply into the “normal band” following the financial crisis, but the decline has since been reversed, and the ratio is now at a recent record high level of 6.5, matched previously only during the great Depression. This is a worrying signal given that abnormally high wealth income ratios have always signaled recession in the past,” the report said.

なお、世界トップ10%の富裕層が多く住む国は、米国、日本、中国の順である。米国はともかくとして、日本にしても中国にしても全然実感がわかないということはあるのだが。