Topic: The chart below gives information about global population percentages and distribution of wealth by region.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

global wealth                         overall                      percentage                 concentrated

world's population                 striking                      income

Model answer

The chart compares population shares in various regions of the world with the distribution of wealth in these same regions. It can be seen that wealth is heavily (1)..................... in North America, Europe, and high income Asia-Pacific countries which together account for almost 90% of global wealth.

Even though North America has only approximately 6% of the world's population, it boasts nearly 34% of (2)............................ A similar situation can be seen in Europe, which has 15% of the global population but 30% of global wealth, and high income Asia-Pacific countries with 5% of the (3)........................... but 24% of its wealth.

In contrast, the (4)...................share of wealth owned by people in Africa, China, India, and other lower (5)......................countries in Asia is considerably less than their population share, sometimes by a factor of more than ten. This is most (6)......................in India, where 16% of the world's population own only 1% of the world's wealth and in China, which has the highest (7).....................of global population (24%) but only 3% of the world's wealth.