Which countries benefit from a redistribution of wealth?
All this data was taken rom the wikipedia article on List of countries by wealth per adult. All of the data below will be in USD since thats the currency used by the articles. I'll also be using median wealth over mean as it gives a better indication of most adults wealth.
Let's say we actually redistribute all the wealth all adults have.
The total wealth is around $461 trillion.
And there are around 5.16 billion adults.
So in a redistribution everyone will have around $89,341.08 usd.
So if we were to redistribute wealth then on average people in these countries will lose wealth;
Iceland, Luxembourg, Australia, Belgium, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Denmark, Switzerland, Canada, Netherlands, United Kingdom, France, Norway, Japan, Taiwan, Italy, Spain, Qatar.
These adults in these countries wealth don't change significantly;
Malta, Sweden, United States, South Korea, Singapore, Israel, Ireland.
These adults in these countries adults gain wealth;
Finland , Austria, Portugal, Slovenia, Germany, Greece, Slovakia, Latvia, Montenegro, Kuwait, Estonia, Cyprus, Croatia, Hungary, Mauritius, Lithuania, China, Lebanon, Barbados, Seychelles, United Arab Emirates, Czech Republic, Uruguay, Bulgaria, Trinidad and Tobago, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Chile, Kazakhstan, Bahrain , Albania, Poland, Grenada, Aruba, Costa Rica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mexico , Tonga , Serbia, Belarus , Panama, Iran , Jordan, Venezuela, Dominica El Salvador , Sri Lanka , Brunei, Oman , Turkmenistan, Moldova, Armenia, Thailand, Saint Lucia, Malaysia, Iraq , Egypt, Tunisia, Bahamas , Russia, Maldives, Azerbaijan, Jamaica , Fiji, Gabon, Equatorial, Guinea, Peru, Samoa, Ecuador, Turkey, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines , Namibia, South Africa , Indonesia, Ukraine, Vietnam, Vanuatu, Colombia, Guyana , Georgia, Solomon, Islands, Botswana, Morocco, Paraguay, Bolivia , Kenya, Libya, Brazil, Bangladesh, Nicaragua, India, Myanmar, Argentina, East Timor , Zimbabwe, Belize, Ghana, Mongolia, Philippines, Algeria, Pakistan , Kyrgyzstan, Papua New Guinea, Cambodia, São Tomé and Príncipe, Tajikistan, Liberia, Nigeria, Yemen , Ethiopia , Senegal, Tanzania, Laos, Suriname, Nepal, Comoros, Rwanda, Guinea, Eritrea, Djibouti, Angola, Mauritania, Afghanistan, Cameroon, Benin, Mali , Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Uganda, Zambia, Madagascar, Malawi, Niger, Syria , Burkina, Faso, Chad , Togo , Haiti, Mozambique, Congo, DR Congo, Burundi , Lesotho, Sierra Leone, Central African Republic.
How does this relate to population? well 8.05% of adults lose wealth, 6.14% of adults wealth doesn't change, and 85.81% of adults gain wealth.
But how severe is the loss/gain in money?
for the countries which lose money, the average adult's wealth halves. For the richest country Iceland, the average wealth quarters.
for the countries which gain money, the average adult's wealth increases by 7.81 times! In poorest country the Central African Republic, the average wealth increases by 323 times!
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