Middle class
Class of people in the middle of a societal hierarchy
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| 2021 |
Class: A Guide Through the American Status System
David Brooks critiques the 'Category X' chapter in the book, describing it as 'insufferably self-regarding' in an article about bourgeois bohemians.
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| April 2019 | An OECD report highlighted that the millennial generation is being pushed out of the middle class throughout the Western world. |
| 2018 | World Inequality Report concludes that India's top 10% elites are accumulating wealth faster than the middle class, potentially indicating a shrinking middle class demographic. |
| 2017 |
Class: A Guide Through the American Status System
Total number of degree-granting postsecondary institutions in the United States reached 4,298, further demonstrating the proliferation of universities and diminishing educational class distinctions noted by Fussell.
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| 2015 | Research from the Russian Academy of Sciences revealed that approximately 15% of the Russian population is considered 'firmly middle class', with an additional 25% positioned 'on the periphery' of the middle class. |
| 2015 | An Institute for Race Relations report estimated that between 10% and 20% of South Africans are middle class. |
| 2014 | The 'upper middle class' income ($20–$50 a day) proportion rose to 2.3%. |
| 2014 | The proportion of Africans in the $10–$20 middle-class income range (excluding South Africa) increased to 6.2%. |
| 2014 | A Standard Bank study found 15.3 million middle-class households across 11 African nations, including Angola, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. |
| October 2014 | Credit Suisse's Global Wealth Report estimated that one billion adults belonged to the 'middle class' with wealth between $10,000-$100,000. |
| 2013 | Center for Strategic and International Studies reports that 420 million people (31% of the Chinese population) now qualify as middle class, representing a substantial demographic and economic shift. |
| 2012 | Russian middle class estimated at 15% of the total population, indicating a significant socioeconomic demographic segment. |
| 2010 | The middle class of Sub-Saharan Africa reached 31 million people, up from 14 million in 1990. |
| 2010 | An OECD working paper reported that 1.8 billion people were members of the global 'middle class'. |
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