Number of US Millionaires - Oregon State University

Summary of US Millionaire Data, page 4

Number of US Millionaires and Value of $1 Million in Dollars of the

Year 2002 for Selected Years 1848 to 1988

2,500,000

$25

2,000,000

$20

1,500,000

$15

1,000,000

$10

500,000

0

$5

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Scale

50

1,000

4,047

5,000

1848

1875

1892

1910

10,000 15,000 20,000 13,000 27,000

1918

1927

1929

1944

1953

Number of millionaires

80,000

1961-62

1965 1968-69 1972-73 1976

1978

1979

1980

1981

1985

Value of $1 million in dollars of 2002

Source of number of millionaires: Phillips, The Politics of Rich and Poor (1991), Appendix A.

1987

1988

$0

Value of $1 million dollars that yea

in millions of dollars of 2002

Number of millionaires

Right

Scale

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