Observed arrival · 2026-11-08
La méritocratie: France’s wealth gap, to scale
An interactive French visualization turns household wealth inequality into a climb where each pixel represents €1,000.
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- French readers exploring household wealth inequality
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- The scale shifts to logarithmic above the top 0.1%, with the page explaining where its wealth thresholds are estimated.
Field notes
The visualization divides households into percentile columns, interpolating between several published Insee thresholds; its notes distinguish those figures from estimates drawn from WID.world and Challenges. Above the top 0.1%, it changes to a logarithmic scale, while the negative-wealth columns are explicitly described as indicative and draw on Banque de France figures. A reader can also enter a household’s gross wealth to locate it on the chart.
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