Japan having 16.5% of global wealth in 2000 seems so weird today.
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Weird … why does the title talk about share in global wealth but the text below talks about median wealth?
and hasn’t done a damn thing since 2018
China had a much larger portion of their population living in poverty in 2000. China holding around 18% of global wealth when they represent roughly the same proportion of global population isn’t necessarily a bad thing
For me, what’s more interesting is that China’s share of global wealth has essentially flatlined for the past 7 years. I’m curious what the prevailing ideas would be to explain this, as I’m not really educated on the subject.
Would be interesting to see EU as well.
After the tsunami in 2011, many people said that Japan would recover quickly, which apparently did not happen.
You missed your chance to use the word sextupled.
Funnily enough, China has about 18% of the world’s population too, so China is actually where you’d expect them to be if income was evenly distributed between countries.
Hmmmmmm… Almost like world wealth is being funneled from the citizens of developed countries into China….
Almost like they have built an economy based on the import of pollution and the export of goods produced at near slave labor standards…
And all without a single war or instigated “regime change”.
What’s amazing is that the US has only had a slight decline since 2000.
It’s easy to turn $1 into $6, but much more difficult to turn $20,000 into $120,000
![[OC] China's share of the global wealth has grown by six times since 2000](https://www.europesays.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/z39srh3ip9af1-1240x1024.png)
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Source: [UBS & Credit Suisse ](https://www.ubs.com/global/en/wealthmanagement/insights/global-wealth-report.html)
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Japan having 16.5% of global wealth in 2000 seems so weird today.
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Weird … why does the title talk about share in global wealth but the text below talks about median wealth?
and hasn’t done a damn thing since 2018
China had a much larger portion of their population living in poverty in 2000. China holding around 18% of global wealth when they represent roughly the same proportion of global population isn’t necessarily a bad thing
For me, what’s more interesting is that China’s share of global wealth has essentially flatlined for the past 7 years. I’m curious what the prevailing ideas would be to explain this, as I’m not really educated on the subject.
Would be interesting to see EU as well.
After the tsunami in 2011, many people said that Japan would recover quickly, which apparently did not happen.
You missed your chance to use the word sextupled.
Funnily enough, China has about 18% of the world’s population too, so China is actually where you’d expect them to be if income was evenly distributed between countries.
Hmmmmmm… Almost like world wealth is being funneled from the citizens of developed countries into China….
Almost like they have built an economy based on the import of pollution and the export of goods produced at near slave labor standards…
And all without a single war or instigated “regime change”.
What’s amazing is that the US has only had a slight decline since 2000.
It’s easy to turn $1 into $6, but much more difficult to turn $20,000 into $120,000
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