percent of population that are millionaires
Millionaires aren’t as common as water, but there are plenty of them. A new study puts the worldwide total at 35 million in 2014, with about 40 percent (14 million) of them American. That’s about 5 percent of the U.S. adult population (241 million in 2014), or one in 20. Rarefied, yes; exclusive, no. After the United States, Japan has the largest concentration of millionaires with 8 percent of the world total, followed by France (7 percent), Germany (6 percent) and the United Kingdom (6 percent).
The United States has too many people in behind bars, says former U.S. Sen. Jim Webb, who’s considering running for president. We have 5 percent of the world’s population, 25 percent of the world’s known prison population, Webb, a Democrat, said during a Dec. 3 conference with Virginia journalists that was coordinated by the Associated Press.