Module 9 Consumer education - APCEIU

In fact, the affluence of Northern lifestyles means that:
the 20% of the world's people in the highest-income countries account for 86%
of total private consumption expenditures;
the poorest 20% consume a tiny 1.3%; while
the middle 60% (around 4 billion people) consume only 12.7%.
These differences translate into the following consumer patterns:
Share of:
Richest
20%
Poorest
20%
Population total 1.2 million 1.2 million
World GNP 82.7% 1.4%
World trade 81.2% 1.0%
Commercial bank loans 94.6% 0.2%
Meat and fish
consumption
45% 5%
Energy consumption 58% 4%
Paper consumption 84% 1.1%
Telephone lines 74% 1.5%
Vehicles 87%