Poverty & Wealth

• GNP per capita & worldwide overall GNP 1961 - 1997 (in US$ (1995)): [10]



• GNP/GNI per capita 1994 - 2000 (in US$): [14,8,9,10,11,12]



• In 1990 the annual income per person in industrialized countries was 60 times greater than that in the least developed countries (LDCs). [12]
• in 1999 it was almost 100 times greater.
• Milanovic (2001) finds some startling statistics, taking into account inequality within countries and using PPP exchange rates. The most recent available estimates are for 1993, but stagnation in the poorest countries and robust growth in many of the richest imply that these are unlikely to have improved: [5]
• The world’s richest 1% of people receive as much income as the poorest 57%.
• The world’s richest 5% of people receive 114 times the income of the poorest 5%.
• The richest 10% of the U.S. population (about 25 million people) has an income equal to that of the poorest 43% of the world (around 2 billion people).
• Around 25% of the world’s people received 75% of the world’s income. [4]
• Worldwide, the number of people living on less than $1 a day barely changed in the 1990s: [5]



	Population's share (in %)		Number (millions)
	1990	1999	1990	1999
Sub-Saharan Africa	47.7	46.7	242	300
South Asia	44.0	36.9	495	490
East Asia and the Pacific	27.6	14.2	452	260
Latin America and the Caribbean	16.8	15.1	74	77
Eastern Europe and Central Asia	1.6	3.6	7	17
Middle East and North Africa	2.4	2.3	6	7
WORLD TOTAL	29.0	22.7	1276	1151