Of the entire world. There are 59,342,564 people richer than me.
The guy’s only raised three thousand quid…poor guy…
Fun site though.
.48%
Another .48% checking in here.
8.56%… I feel poor!
How accurate is this site?
It says that someone who makes $200,000/year is not only in the top .001% of the world but, shockingly, is the 107,565 richest perosn in the world. Can this be true? It doesn’t seem to work.
I barely made it into the top 1%, but Mrs. AG: :eek: Holy Cow!
But then I noticed that anything over $200K gets the exact same response (“our calculator can’t do sums that big”), so that figure is a bit skewed.
Ha! Top .989 percent in the world, so eat my dust, peasants! Woo-hoo!
Amazingly I get this:
“You are in the top 0.713% richest people in the world.”
You may now bow before my capitalist visage.
I put in $250K (which I made on paper a couple of years ago, but it was sort of a tax scam for my company), and it couldn’t even calculate where I rank. I’m sure there are PLENTY of people who made more, but just how many?
I have to say, the real fun is in calculating salaries based on percentages given.
Interestingly enough, anything over about $35,000 US/year is in the top one percent, but once you get below that figure, percentages drop precipitously. Someone making $30,000 US/year is only in the top 3.11 percent, and someone making $20,000 US/year is only in the top 7.7 percent.
It also won’t let you calculate your place on the list if you make less than $90/year, but it also tells you that typically you wouldn’t have internet access.
Well, if I use what I actually make by way of paychecks, I’m in the top 12.84% (that big 8k a year, ya know).
If I include the tuition waiver (taking me up to 18k a year), I’m in all of the top 8.56%.
I don’t buy this. The median household income in the US in 2002 was $42,409. The site claims that someone who makes $42,409 is among the richest 55,000,000 people in the world. I know that there’s a difference between household and individual income, but 55 million seems awfully low for a world-wide figure.
That’s almost exactly my salary, Duke, but I got this…
*You are in the top 0.923% richest people in the world.
There are 5,944,606,435 people poorer than you. *
Gee, I don’t feel rich.
Oh, and one other thing…if you make $29,101 (or, the median income ofan American male in 2001, there are only 214 million people wealthier than you. There are over 60 million people in America alone who make more than that. Well…perhaps the figure could be quite close, I suppose.
This site’s numbers are fucked.
It says that if you make $33,701/year, you’re in that top 1%, as the 59,808,906-th richest person in the world. There’s roughly that many people earning that much each year in America alone.
It says in this Census Bureau/Bureau of Labor Statistics table that in 2001, over 62 million Americans earned more than $35,000 per year. Now, we’re two years further into a period of declining incomes than we were then, but 62 million Americans earning more than $35K then probably translates into over 60 million making more than $33,701 now.
And that’s not even including people in Canada, Europe, east Asia, etc., etc.
I don’t buy it either.
For one thing, the site calculates my hourly rate as if I only worked 27 hours a week. Something is funky about their math.
Regards,
Shodan
Anyone want to sell me a kidney?
I don’t buy it either, but I didn’t have to do any actual research to confirm my suspicions. The stats it spits out don’t even match the stats it shows on the chart it cites as the basis for its calculation. I put in $25000 yearly and it told me I was in the top 5.56% and the 333,778,921 richest person in the world.
But then if you look at the explanation it says that the top 10 percent of the world’s population make $25,400 or more.
I don’t have to look any further than that to see that whatever stats it’s giving are skewed. So, in conclusion… eh.
My combined income with spouse puts us in the top .21%, which seems pretty rarified. However, I’ve actually seen how people live in the third world and am not quite as skeptical as other posters.
I’m not sure I buy the numbers either. If it is calculating based on the 6+ billion people and on a per person basis maybe and looking at how little people earn in third world countries this might be possible. The 50% mark is 868.3 give or take a dime.
This thread is why I love this place.
If it doesn’t make sense, pick it apart and take a look.