# what was the world's wealth in 2015?

I was reading an article from 2015 stating that 1% of the world has half of the world wealth. They have several figures such as the world's billionaries have around 7 trillions dollars or the global world wealth pyramid which shows a percent of population by percent of the total wealth etc. but I can't see anywhere a figure of the total wealth of the world. Which is it?

If you believe table 2 of a January 2015 Oxfam report then about $\$250$trillion. The campaign spliced together some information from Forbes on the richest$x$individuals and a series of Credit Suisse reports - see the bottom of page 94 The analysis has faced criticism: it concentrates on individual assets and liabilities, e.g. a US doctor whose student debt exceeds personal financial assets counts as poorer than a subsistence farmer in Africa, and uses a very large amount of estimation, so other reasonable calculations could be very different • it doesnt seem much, do you know if there's another source which says differently? Aug 2 '16 at 20:44 • @Pablo Savills estimated that real estate was worth$\$217$ trillion - three quarters of it residential - and this was $60\%$ of the global mainstream asset universe of $\$372$trillion. So$\$122$ trillion different but a similar order of magnitude to the Oxfam/Credit Suisse number. Even if you managed to come up with an average of $\$100,000$per person you would not get above$\$740$ trillion, and remember there are a lot of children and poor adults in the world Aug 2 '16 at 21:18