The World's New Richest Nation - And it's not the USA!

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According to Bloomberg, china has gained the Upper Hand as the world's wealth has quadrupled in the last twenty years, with china leading the way and surpassing the US for the number one spot. The research arm of McKinsey & Co. consultants examined the financial sheets of ten distinct countries that account for 60 percent of the world's overall revenue. The world's net wealth increased to an astounding $513 trillion in 2020, up from $157 trillion in 2000, with china accounting for roughly one-third of global revenue.



In a statement, Jan Mischke, a member at the McKinsey Global Institute in Zurich, observed, "We are today richer than we've ever were." According to recent global financial statistics from McKinsey & Co., China's fortune has risen to $121 trillion from $8 trillion in 2000, a staggering increase from the country's days before entering the World Trade Organization, which has hastened its climb to prominence.



Meanwhile, property values in the united states have remained relatively flat, while the country's net wealth has roughly doubled to $92 trillion in the very same time span. Although china and the united states have the world's greatest markets, the richest 10% of families own the majority of the world's wealth. As per the research, they're only becoming wealthier. These are fascinating moments, in part because the globe's wealthiest people are becoming far wealthier than ever before, while the impoverished people in developed countries are beginning to struggle worse.

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