After last week’s post on poverty in the UK, I thought I’d follow up with this graph showing the distribution of the country’s wealth. The data was released this week by the Office for National Statistics, in a report called Wealth in Great Britain (pdf).
As the image shows, wealth is badly distributed. The least wealthy half of all households own just 9% of all the wealth between them. The top fifth own 62% of all the wealth.
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[...] in the UK. We are a highly unequal society, in which the poorest half of the population holds just 9% of the wealth. The richest 10% are 100 times richer than the poorest [...]