Transcript Sociological Perspectives

Inequality
How much inequality is there?
• Let’s create a seating chart based on the
distribution of wealth in the world.
• If I were to distribute the chairs based
on wealth distribution, this is what it
would look like.
Distribution of Wealth
• The top 1% holds
40% of the wealth.
• The top 10% holds 85%
of the wealth.
• The bottom 50% holds
1% of the wealth.
How do you feel?
• How do you think this affects people around the world?
• Although North America (US and Canada) has only 6% of the world adult
population, it accounts for 34% of household wealth.
• The global wealth Gini for adults is 89%.
• The same degree of inequality would be obtained if one person in a group
of ten takes 99% of the total pie and the other nine share the remaining
1%.
Global Inequality
• Income inequality (of about 6.5 billion)
• 1 billion people live on less than $1 a
day.
• 1.5 billion more live on less than $2 a
day.
• Water and sanitation
• 1 billion lack access to safe water.
• 2.6 billion lack access to adequate
sanitation.
• Malnutrition
• 850 million people are malnourished