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Asset Management 2020
The rising levels of urbanisation will see the global
middle class grow by c.180% between 2010 and 2040
Forecast size of middle class, by region, 2010-2050
6,000
4,884
Middle class, millions
5,000
5,227
5,314
Sub-Saharan Africa
5,246
4,977
Middle East &
North Africa
4,153
4,000
Central & South
America
3,249
3,000
2,000
2,462
North America
1,898
Asia Pacific
1,000
Europe
0
2010
2015
2020
2025
2030
2035
2040
2045
2050
Sources: European Environment Agency; OECD Development Centre; PwC analysis
Notes: Data is forecast and was last uploaded by the European Environment Agency on 29 November 2010; middle class is defined as households with daily expenditures between $10 and $100 per person in purchasing
power parity terms; purchasing power parity terms use the results of the 2005 International Comparison Program, a joint exercise of the UN-OECD-World Bank-regional development banks; non-middle class represents
both those living on less than USD10 a day and those living on more than USD100 a day ; forecast population size is not directly proportionate to the size of middle class spending
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