A new study using data up through 2005 puts the world's top 1 percent of earners starting at $34,000 of after tax income per person per year.
The world's median income is just $1,225 per person per year.
Half of the world's one percenters live in the USA, and "even the poorest 5 percent of Americans are better off financially than two thirds of the entire world."
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