This feels like a large disconnect?

Assuming these two sets of people are not the same -- there are a lot of people in the west earning > $32K a year and having less than $770K in assets.

So they are in the top set but not the bottom. Since the cardinality of the sets is the same, where are all the people that have more than $770K in assets but earn less than $32K a year.

Even a fairly modest 5% return would produce more income than that, or are the stats excluding investment income?

People with that much equity in their home wouldn't realize the income ... but how many people in the west even live in $700K+ homes and yet have less than $32K in income a year? Maybe some seniors, but surely not a very large group.

The wealth seems like a much more accurate of the top 1%, especially with the amount of personal debt people have.

Thanks for that data. Interesting to me is that there is that seemingly large gap between the income and wealth numbers. That is, the 32,500 number comes down to just about anyone with a full-time job in the US that pays over minimum wage, but the 770k in assets seems to be a much, much higher level.

Just to be specific, those numbers you give are in EURs, not USD.

2,200 billionaires if this is to be believed http://time.com/money/4746795/richest-people-in-the-world/