# Where are you on the world Rich List? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 1, 2004, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-on-the-world-rich-list/267073 "2004-10-01T17:51:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2004, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-on-the-world-rich-list/267073/41 "2004-10-02T17:19:12Z")
It’s not clear to me whether the results are calculated using purchasing power parity numbers or market exchange rates. I suspect the latter, which would be rather misleading. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2004, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-on-the-world-rich-list/267073/42 "2004-10-02T21:21:23Z")
I’m in the top 12% worldwide which places me around the bottom five perecent or lower in this thread and looking around my apartment, it really shows. ---
**Author:** ![DirkGntly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DirkGntly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DirkGntly)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2004, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-on-the-world-rich-list/267073/43 "2004-10-02T22:17:06Z")
> [@](#): > > You are in the top 0.48% richest people in the world. > Oh, and in case you’re interested you are the 28,827,565 richest person in the world. Wow, that’s quite surprising…maybe I should be donating more to charity - although I very conscientously donate 10% of my gross salary annually. Oh, and this is a single-income household… ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2004, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-on-the-world-rich-list/267073/44 "2004-10-02T22:32:08Z")
I’m glad that I give generously to a number of charities. My result was: > [@](#): > > You are in the top 0.001% richest people in the world. > You don’t need to know any more than that (and besides our calculator can’t do sums that big). I think I’m gonna go buy some stuff from the Heifer International catalog now. Geez. ---
**Author:** ![sleestak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@sleestak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleestak)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-on-the-world-rich-list/267073/45 "2004-10-03T08:49:21Z")
Hmmm, I am in the top 4.62% according to that site. Then they ask for a donation of 24.30, which they call one hour of my salary. I don’t make 24.30 an hour, I make a reasonable amount less. I am not sure how they are calculating the numbers but something is wrong. In the US 24.30 per hour should = 48,600 a year (2000 hours \*24.30). Hmm, I put in 100,00 as yearly income and it reports an hour salary of 69.44, which is off by 19.44 per hour.(That is using 40 hour per week\*50 weeks a year for 2000 hours per year to = 100,000 per year). Using their numbers the work year has only 1440 hours which breaks down to 36 weeks. Hmmm, I wonder where my extra 14 weeks of vaction went because I could really use it. Also looking a little further, someone making 40,000 a year is the 3.17 percentile. Someone making 50,000 is in the 0.889 percentile. I don’'t believe these number are anywhere near correct. I could be wrong but this just doesn’t look right to me. I can’t believe there is such a difference between 40 and 50 grand a year. It’s not that big of a jump. Slee ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-on-the-world-rich-list/267073/46 "2004-10-03T12:02:44Z")
The site reccommends that I donate one hours salary…a grand total of $5.50. Egads, I think I’m gonna need that money for myself. I’m hanging out in India right now (posting from a Pondicherry net cafe) and even my paltry can’t-quite-afford-dinner-every-night earnings seem like a fortune compared to the families living on highway medians and people who don’t own a single thing that I’ve met. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-you-on-the-world-rich-list/267073.md?page=2)