Acording to this study :
http://xsinthis.net/2011/11/report-w...wealth-survey/ if World of Warcraft was a country, it would be ranked the second highestfor economic inequality, just below Namibia at 74.3 and just above Lesotho at 63.2, while Canada and the United States weigh in at 32.6 and 40.8 respectively, to give some scale to the disparity WoW players face.
The bottom 75% owns 14.41% of the wealth (the bottom 25% and 50% owns 0.88% and 4.37% respectively)
The first quartile was 12,000 gold while the third quartile was 108,198 gold, the median was 35,000 gold.
“The 99%” owns only 75.75% of the wealth, leaving 24.25% to the top 1% of players
19% of the subjects had under 10,000 gold
72% had under 100,000 gold
82% of players were under the reported sample average
96% were under 1 million gold