Read the text and answer questions 37 to 40.

    Today’s inequality of opportunity fuels tomorrow’s inequality of outcomes. Average education spending per child in SubSaharan Africa stands at only €200 (PPP), compared with €7,400 in Europe and €9,000 in North America and Oceania, a gap over 1 to 40, approximately three times as much as the gap in per capita GDP. Such disparities shape life chances across generations, entrenching a geography of opportunity that exacerbates and perpetuates global wealth hierarchies. 

    Wealth has reached historic highs but remains very unevenly distributed. The top 0.001%, fewer than 60,000 multimillionaires, owns three times more wealth than the entire bottom half of humanity combined. Within almost every region, the top 1% alone hold more wealth than the bottom 90% combined.

    The global financial system is rigged in favour of rich countries. At the global level, around 1% of the global GDP flows each year from poorer to richer countries through net income transfers associated with persistent excess yields and lower interest payments on rich-country liabilities, nearly three times the amount of global development aid.

    The gender pay gap persists across all regions and is larger when unpaid labor hours are accounted for. Excluding unpaid work, women earn only 61% of what men earn per working hour; when unpaid labor is included, this figure falls to just 32%. In every region, women work more hours than men when unpaid labor is accounted for.

Source: https://wid.world/news-article/world-inequality-report-2026-inequality-persist-at-a-veryextreme-level/