Current Trends
Peoples of predominantly Black African ancestry constitute 8 percent of the world’s population however as the above chart shows, they constituted 0% of the world’s billionaires in 1999 and 2000, 0.19% in 2001, 0.20% in 2002, 0.42% in 2003, 0.17% in 2004, 0.14% in 2005, 0.13% in 2006, and 0.21% in 2007.
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