{"id":1403,"date":"2025-09-22T18:46:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T23:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/?p=1403"},"modified":"2025-09-22T18:47:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T23:47:59","slug":"americas-wealth-distribution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/?p=1403","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s Wealth Distribution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There are many interesting articles about how wealth is distributed in America. It&#8217;s funny because no one ever can guess with any accuracy at all at how wealth is distributed amongst age groups, percentiles, genders\/ethnicities, etc. In fact they have asked people to visualize with pie and what not how a person thinks wealth is distributed and the person is usually WAYYYYYY the fuck off. It&#8217;s scary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a title=\"Visual Capitalist - Visualizing America\u2019s Wealth Distribution by Generation\" href=\"https:\/\/www.visualcapitalist.com\/americas-wealth-distriution-by-generation\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.visualcapitalist.com\/americas-wealth-distriution-by-generation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">article in Visual Capitalist<\/a> is just about America&#8217;s wealth distribution by generation. I thought I would just put this information in a table to show the data. This data is of course as of 2024\/2025 and always collected by reputable sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><th scope=\"col\">Generation<\/th><th scope=\"col\">Birth Years<\/th><th scope=\"col\">Number Of People<\/th><th scope=\"col\">% Of Population<\/th><th scope=\"col\">Value Of Assets<\/th><th scope=\"col\">Share Of Assets<\/th><th scope=\"col\">Average $ Per Person<\/th><\/tr><tr><td>Silent<\/td><td>&gt; 1946<\/td><td>~15,236,972<\/td><td>4.48%<\/td><td>$20.1T<\/td><td>12.3%<\/td><td>$1,319,159<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Boomers<\/td><td>1946-1964<\/td><td>~66,899,831<\/td><td>19.67%<\/td><td>$83.3T<\/td><td>51.0%<\/td><td>$1,245,145<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Gen X<\/td><td>1965-1980<\/td><td>~65,539,387<\/td><td>19.27%<\/td><td>$42.6T<\/td><td>26.1%<\/td><td>$649,990<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Millennials &amp; Gen Z<\/td><td>1981-2012<\/td><td>~144,955,303<\/td><td>42.62%<\/td><td>$17.1T<\/td><td>10.5%<\/td><td>$117,967<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Totals<\/td><td><\/td><td>293,005,616<\/td><td>86.15%<\/td><td>$163.1T<\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I had to do some calculations to get out the Gen Alpha since they are not the age to have assets yet and are not in the Visualizing America&#8217;s Wealth By Generation article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also love to point out that BOTH Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are baby boomers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many interesting articles about how wealth is distributed in America. It&#8217;s funny because no one ever can guess with any accuracy at all at how wealth is distributed amongst age groups, percentiles, genders\/ethnicities, etc. In fact they have asked people to visualize with pie and what not how a person thinks wealth is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,57,16,8,6,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-income-inequality","category-information","category-money","category-politics","category-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1403"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1405,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions\/1405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}