Inequality Report 2026: Only 1% people have 40% of the country’s wealth, the gap between rich and poor has deepened.

World Inequality Report 2026: There is a huge disparity between poverty and wealth in India. Only a few people in the country have immense wealth, while most of the people are forced to live their lives below the poverty line. According to the World Inequality Report 2026, just one percent of people in India own nearly 40 percent of the country’s total wealth, making income inequality in India one of the highest in the world with little sign of improvement.

According to the information given in the report, 65 percent of the country’s wealth is owned by only the richest 10 percent of the people. On the other hand, the bottom 50 percent own only 6.4 percent of the wealth. The report has been prepared by economists Lucas Chancel, Ricardo Gomez-Carrera, Rowaidha Mosharif and Thomas Piketty.

Only 15% income of 50% people

A report published in Financial Express states that the top 10 percent of the highest earning people get 58 percent of the national income, while the bottom 50 percent get only 15 percent.

Only 15.7% women involved in work

According to the report, the average in India per capita annual income is around 6,200 euros and the average wealth is around 28,000 euros (in PPP terms). Women’s participation in work is very low. Only 15.7 percent women are involved in employment or work. There has been no significant improvement in this in the last 10 years. The report shows that in 1980, the majority of India’s population was in the middle class, that is, in the middle part of the national income.

But now this population has slipped into the bottom 50 percent. The income gap between the top 10 percent and the bottom 50 percent has increased slightly between 2014 and 2024. This difference increased from 38 percent to 3 8.2 percent.

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Rapidly increasing inequality in the world

Inequality has increased a lot even at the global level. The report said that the world’s total wealth has reached historic levels, but most of it is held by a very few people. world population The wealth owned by just 60,000 people (0.001%) is three times more than that of the bottom half of the world. The wealth of the richest 0.001 percent people was 3.8 percent in 1995, which will increase to 6.1 percent in 2025. At the same time, the wealth of half the poor people of the world has been stuck at about 2 percent for the last 20 years.