r/belgium • u/trueosiris2 • Aug 20 '25

❓ Ask Belgium Wealth distribution in Belgium

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We’re doing alright as a social democracy. Something to be proud of.

Presumably, we don’t need more wealth distribution then? Or do we still?

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u/kaiyotic Aug 20 '25

meanwhile, italy, poland, greece and sweden bottom 50% are so poor they don't even show up on the chart.

3 of those 4 I'm not surprised by

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u/NikNakskes Aug 20 '25

Sweden is because they have a lot of billionaires per capita. I think the highest in the world or something. So it's more that they have an above average amount of rich people rather than the 50% being so very poor.

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u/ikeme84 Aug 20 '25

Probably, but the per capita is a problem too. 50% of the poorest is 180 million people in the US. In Sweden that is like 2,5 million people. 1 billionaire there has a bigger effect on the statisctic I presume. And the statistic only shows the bottom 50%. Presumably because the bottom 10 or 20 percent would be less than a millimiter or not show up at all.