Перевести, . не с переводчика! thanks to a 2006 study by the world institute for development economics research -- using statistics for the year 2000 -- we now have information on the wealth distribution for the world as a whole, which can be compared to the united states and other well-off countries. the authors of the report admit that the quality of the information available on many countries is very spotty and probably off by several percentage points, but they compensate for this problem with very sophisticated statistical methods and the use of different sets of data. with those caveats in mind, we can still safely say that the top 10% of the world's adults control about 85% of global household wealth -- defined very broadly as all assets (not just financial assets), minus debts. that compares with a figure of 69.8% for the top 10% for the united states. the only industrialized democracy with a higher concentration of wealth in the top 10% than the united states is switzerland at 71.3%. for the figures for several other northern european countries and canada, all of which are based on high-quality data.
