The most economically unequal country in the world, South Africa's horrendous wealth disparities are a legacy of the racist apartheid system, which ended in the early 1990s, compounded by the failure of subsequent governments to address wealth redistribution effectively.

The typical Black household in the country owns just 5% of the wealth the typical white household possesses. More than half the population lives below the poverty line, though the Rainbow Nation has six billionaires and produced the world's richest person, Elon Musk. That said, millionaires are scarce, constituting only 0.1% of the population. South Africa's top 1% hoards 54.9% of the country's wealth, the richest 10% swallows up 85.6% and the bottom 50% has more debts than assets, holding a negative wealth of -2.5%.

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