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US wealth by wealth percentile group. 50% of households own 2.5% of the nation’s wealth.
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Source: Federal Reserve
this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2025
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How many people are in each category?
Curren population is 347.533.640
99.9 => 347.533 people
99 - 99.9 => 3.127.802 people
99 - 90 => 31.625.562 people
99 - 50 => 142.141.258 people
50 - 0 => 173.766.820 people
Multiply the population by the percentage? (I didn't find anything on that page suggesting that it wouldn't be the case.)
342 million * 0.5 = 171 million people who are in the bottom yellow line. The top darker green line is 342 million * 0.001 = 342 thousand people
I think you can do the others yourself if you like.
Around 350M Americans, so the bottom 50% is about 175M, next 49%'s about the same, top 1% is 3.5M, top 0.1% is 350K people.