I’ve consistently tried to teach my kids to be grateful and not malcontents when it comes to how much they have and don’t have. Now I have a way to demonstrate more empirically how rich they are, The Global Rich List. This site takes your annual income and calculates where you fall on the global wealth scale in actual number and percentage.

Every qualified Alaskan will receive a Permanent Fund Dividend in October. Estimates are this year’s checks will be around $2000. If I enter the PFD amount in the Global Rich List my kids are automatically 1,057,270,585 on the world’s richest list. That puts my 13-year old son in the top 17.62% of richest people in the world. Along with every other Alaskan he is incredibly wealthy in a global perspective. Wow! And he doesn’t even have a Wii or iPod Touch.

Some facts from the Global Rich List to put things in perspective:

• Three billion people live on less than $2 per day while 1.3 billion get by on less than $1 per day.
• The world’s 225 richest people now have a combined wealth of $1 trillion. That’s equal to the combined annual income of the world’s 2.5 billion poorest people

The website was developed in the UK by Poke, a creative multimedia company. Their intent is to challenge people’s perspective on personal wealth and encourage charitable giving.

H/T: Cliotech

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