1 % of the us population controls the wealth.
1 % of the us population controls the wealth.
what percent of the us population controls the wealth?
1 %
according to the 2008 american religious identification survey (aris) report, in 1990 only 8.2% of the us population identified as "no religion", atheists were not detectable, and agnostics made up 0.7% of the us population. by 2001, 14.1% of the us population identified as "no religion", atheists made up 0.4% and agnostics made up 0.5% of the us population. by 2008, 15% of the us population identified as "no religion", atheists made up 0.7% and agnostics made up 0.9% of the us population.
irreligion in the united states
vilfredo pareto originally used this distribution to describe the allocation of wealth among individuals since it seemed to show rather well the way that a larger portion of the wealth of any society is owned by a smaller percentage of the people in that society. he also used it to describe distribution of income. this idea is sometimes expressed more simply as the pareto principle or the "80-20 rule" which says that 20% of the population controls 80% of the wealth. however, the 80-20 rule corresponds to a particular value of "α", and in fact, pareto's data on british income taxes in his "cours d'économie politique" indicates that about 30% of the population had about 70% of the income. the probability density function (pdf) graph at the beginning of this article shows that the "probability" or fraction of the population that owns a small amount of wealth per person is rather high, and then decreases steadily as wealth increases. (the pareto distribution is not realistic for wealth for the lower end, however. in fact, net worth may even be negative.) this distribution is not limited to describing wealth or income, but to many situations in which an equilibrium is found in the distribution of the "small" to the "large". the following examples are sometimes seen as approximately pareto-distributed:
pareto distribution