Friday, March 14, 2014

The Typical American, Net Worth

Demographers usually use median household income rather than mean because several fabulously wealthy people are extreme outliers that obscure the income or net worth of most Americans.  As you can see in this example using 2007 data, Bill Gates, the then richest man in the world, had a net worth almost half a million times larger than the median American household.

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