Good morrow. This post brings you some spurious Wikipedia–based social statistics in special honour of April Fools Day, ca 1307, when, for instance, European feudalism meant staggering inequalities of wealth between the rich and the mass of the people (plus such other gems as crusades, torture, capture of valued hostages for ransom etc.)<\/p>\n

Nothing like our world today, of course.<\/p>\n

The Wikipedia pages that provided the resources for this table were the list of billionaires<\/a> and list of countries by GDP(PPP)<\/a><\/p>\n

Granted that it would be hard to judge the accuracy of any of the figures. They’ve been gathered from a range of sources, all of which are pretty spurious, by anonymous researchers. Plus, these calculations have been done by someone with only a vague grasp of what a billion and trillion are, and that’s not even counting the discrepancy between the British and US billion\/trillion. However, you can check the calculations. (Of course, they were done with the help of software sold by the number 1 billionaire’s former company.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

\nTotal wealth of all countries (IMF version)<\/td>\n	\t $73,573,193,100,000 if you add up the individual <\/p>\n countries or $61,027,505,000,000 if you take the top world figure\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nNumber of billionaires <\/td>\n	946\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nTotal wealth of listed countries divided by total wealth of top 101 billionaires\t<\/td>\n	\t1%\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nTotal wealth of listed countries divided by total wealth of all billionaires<\/td>\n	\t3%\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nAverage wealth of top 101 billionaires<\/td>\n	\t$14,218,811,881\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nAverage (net worth) wealth of all billionaires<\/td>\n	\t$3,699,788,584\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nNet worth of the top 3 as Percentage of world’s GDP <\/td>\n	\t0.26%\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nNet worth of the top 3 as Percentage of European Union GDP<\/td>\n	\t1.26%\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nNet worth of the top 3 as Percentage of USA GDP <\/td>\n	\t1.28%\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nCountries on list whose GDP is less than the average top 101 billionaire’s wealth<\/td>\n	\t55\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nCountries on list whose GDP is less than the average billionaire’s wealth<\/td>\n	\t25\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nCountries on list whose GDP is less than the richest billionaire’s wealth<\/td>\n	\t110\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nCountries on list whose GDP is less than the richest 3 billionaires’ combined wealth<\/td>\n	\t128\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nWorld population<\/td>\n	\t6,453,628,000\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nWorld’s GDP divided by population – i.e average human share of world’s wealth<\/td>\n	\t$11,400\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n% of world population that are billionaires<\/td>\n	0.000015%\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nFactor by which average billionaire’s wealth exceeds average annual share of world’s wealth<\/td>\n	\t324,534\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n<\/table>\n Share this:<\/h3> <\/span>Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li> <\/span>Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li> More<\/span><\/a><\/li> <\/li><\/ul> <\/span>Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li> <\/span>Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li> <\/li> <\/span>Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li> <\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Good morrow. This post brings you some spurious Wikipedia–based social statistics in special honour of April Fools Day, ca 1307, when, for instance, European feudalism meant staggering inequalities of wealth between the rich and the mass of the people (plus … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Share this:<\/h3> <\/span>Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li> <\/span>Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li> More<\/span><\/a><\/li> <\/li><\/ul> <\/span>Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li> <\/span>Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li> <\/li> <\/span>Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li> <\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[5,3,10],"tags":[725,4009,221,90],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pnUcF-cq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.whydontyou.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.whydontyou.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.whydontyou.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.whydontyou.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.whydontyou.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.whydontyou.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.whydontyou.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.whydontyou.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.whydontyou.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}