Sentence examples for of the total wealth from inspiring English sources

Millionaires made up 1percentt of the taxpayers and earned 12percentt of the total wealth in 1998.

What is more, these billionaires account for a majority (about 60 percent) of the total wealth of India's billionaires.

The top 1% own just less than a quarter of the total wealth (23%), while the poorest 20% share just 0.8% of the country's wealth between them.

Peppered throughout recorded history are examples of exceptional wealth deriving from the spoils of empire and warfare – the Roman emperor Caesar Augustus is thought to have controlled the equivalent of $4.6tn – one-fifth of the total wealth of the empire.

The latest official government figures show 1% of the population owned approximately a fifth of the UK's marketable wealth in 2003, and half shared only 7% of the total wealth.

Conversely, Jack London, in 1908, published "The Iron Heel," imagining an America under a fascist oligarchy in which "nine-tenths of one per cent" hold "seventy per cent of the total wealth".

This figure was based on the total wealth of the 85 billionaires at the time of the annual Forbes list in March 2013.

Online there are estimates for the total wealth of the nation ranging from about $54 trillion to $150 trillion or more.

The combined wealth of the Britain's super rich is now ahead of the pre-recession levels of 2008, when the total wealth of the UK's 75 billionaires was £201bn.

But when stock market values are factored in, the rising value of financial assets — including stocks — has restored the total wealth of American households.

We use data from Forbes to calculate the total wealth of those of the world's billionaires who are active mainly in rent-heavy industries, and compare that total to world GDP to get a sense of its scale.