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By Chris Giles in London
Published: December 8 2006 22:10 | Last updated: December 8 2006 22:10
China’s population is so large and its economy growing so quickly that the Chinese are set to take over second place in the league table of the world’s wealthy people in the next decade.
Research published this week by the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University (UNU-Wider) showed that an adult needed to own $61,000 of net assets to be in the richest 10 per cent of the world’s wealth distribution and that in 2000, Chinese people represented less than 1-in-100 of this group.
But such is the pace of development that Professor Anthony Shorrocks of UNU-Wider thinks that China will soon have more people in this group than Japan. The Japanese currently account for a fifth of the world’s top 10 per cent.
Mr Shorrocks said “it won’t take very much for China to displace Japan as the second placed country”, because millions of Chinese already have wealth a little below the levels needed to be in the richest 10 per cent, their wealth is rising quickly, their savings rates are high and it is likely that Chinese wealth will become less equally shared, propelling a large elite towards the top of the global league.
China’s likely advance up the wealth league contrasts with India, according to Mr Shorrocks, because India’s wealth is already unequally distributed so there is not much scope for the development of a large class of super-rich in the sub-continent. That group already exists.
The study showed that global wealth is extremely unequally distributed around the world. Half of the world’s wealth, measured by land, property and financial assets less debt, is held by the richest 2 per cent of the world’s adults, it found. Almost 90 per cent of the world’s wealth is held in North America, Europe and rich Asian and Pacific countries, such as Japan and Australia.
Among the richest 1 per cent of the world’s adult population, some 85 per cent live in the group of seven countries – the US, Japan, Germany, the UK, France, Italy and Canada. Individuals needed $500,000 in 2000 to secure a place in this group, although since 37m people owned wealth of this amount, Mr Shorrocks said it could not be regarded as “exclusive”.
Wealth is difficult to measure and the authors spent several years attempting to make different national sources of data provide a consistent picture of wealth-holding around the world.
Other publications have focused on the world’s very wealthiest, for example those who have at least $1m in marketable financial assets, often without such detailed statistical foundations.
This week Barclays Wealth alongside the Economist Intelligence Unit published a report that estimated that the number of these super-rich individuals would rise from 6m in 2006 to 16m in 2016.
Even with the rapid growth rates projected for China, individuals are likely to struggle to accumulate such wealth quickly, so the Barclays study estimated that the world’s most wealthy individuals will remain almost exclusively in the G7 countries.
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