OMG - I had never really thought of this

[Flashman]

I am generally blushing here - I am in the top .70%. I have never really considered how lucky I am.

globalrichlist.com/

wow, even on my own paltry part time sum I'm in the top 12%

I'm around there too.

I think a lot of people will be.

But a lot depends on who you have to spend this income on.

Interestingly if you enter the amount which the Govt define as "child poverty" - a 4-person family on £15k - you still come out in the top 8% of the world.

here, flashman I got you a gift so you can wind up some more MNers

well that'll teach me to pile in without clicking on the link.

sorry

Blimey, with me and dh we are in the top 0.85% . Who am I to moan about things?

unquiet dad - that is something I have always found interesting - does child poverty in the classical sense - really exist in the UK?

squonk - I was not trying to stir - it was on the radio today - and it was something I had never really considered - Something to thank God for maybe?

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flashman - there was a thread about this recently, based on my link to an article on BBC News. They defined child poverty for a 4-person family as a weekly figure which worked out as a roughly £16K salary, for which you see tons of jobs advertised in the voluntary sector and so on, all needing good experience and qualifications.

Do you still have the link?? I wonder what they based the 16k on?

flashman - I realise that.

As soon as I looked at your link, I realised what you were saying. I did apologise straight away.

It's a load of rubbish - don't be taken in by it!

I have just entered various sums of money between £500000 and £700000 and in all cases I came out as the 107065 richest person!

I think the statistics in the UK tend to be different if you look at relative poverty (ie a certain level below the UK average salary) and absolute poverty (below a certain figure) - while there are fewer people in absolute poverty than there were in the past, there are increasing numbers in relative poverty - because the gap between the well-off and the struggling in UK society has increased.

Soapbox, I just tried entering various sums between £1 and £100000, it definatly changed. Are you sure there wasn't something up with your browser?
Or maybe on a global scale those mumbers are both in the top tiny percentage...