Two worlds exist in one world. A world where people have everything. There is no shortage. The other is a world which either has nothing or just enough to get by. This difference explains the gap between the rich and the poor. The biggest gap between rich and poor in the world is in India. ‘Poor Indians’ also live in this ‘Rich India’ and ‘Rich Indians’ also live in this ‘Poor India’.
Now a new report has come which shows that the gap between the rich and the poor is increasing across the world. This report shows that 0.001% of the world’s population i.e. about 60 thousand people have as much wealth as even the poorest half of the population does not have. The report shows that only these 60 thousand people have three times more wealth than the poor half of the population.
All these things have come to light in the ‘World Inequality Report 2026’. It has also been revealed in this report that the top 10% of the world’s richest people earn more than even the remaining 90% of people together can earn.
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What came out in the report?
- The report found that the value of people’s assets exceeds their income from work and investments. The richest 10% of the world’s population had 75% of the wealth and the bottom 50% had only 2%.
- This report revealed that in almost every region of the world, the top 1% people were richer than the total wealth of the bottom 90% people. This shows how rapidly inequality is increasing around the world.
- It has also been revealed that in 1995, the top 0.001% people owned 4% of the world’s total wealth. Now it has increased to 6%. The wealth of the rich has increased by 8% every year since the 1990s.
- The report says that if the tax on 1 lakh rich people is increased by 3%, then 750 billion dollars can be collected every year. This will be more than the education budget of middle income countries.
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How much has inequality increased in India?
The ‘World Inequality Report’ of 2026 shows that India has the highest level of inequality in the world.
The report shows that in India, the top 10% of the population earns 58% of the total national income, while the bottom 50% gets only 15%.
This gap is even bigger regarding wealth. The top 10% of the population owns 65% of the country’s wealth, while the top 1% owns 40% of the wealth. 40% of the middle class population owns 29% of the wealth. At the same time, the bottom 50% of the population owns only 6.4% of the wealth.
It has been told in this report that the average annual earning of a person in India is 6,200 Euro (about Rs 6.53 lakh). At the same time, every Indian has an average asset of 28,000 Euros (about Rs 30 lakh).
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