wealth

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Wealth refers to an abundance of valuable material possessions or resources. It encompasses all property with monetary or exchangeable value, essentially the stock of useful goods that exist at any given time. The distribution of wealth and income is how these resources are divided among a population or between nations.12

Wealth is an accumulated store, while income is the flow of payments received over a specific period. Statistical methods are used to study these distributions, though data reliability can vary. Factors like ownership of production (labor, land, capital) and personal income (wages, rent, interest, profit) are used for classification. Gross national income (GNI) per capita2

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