PROPERTY LEFT BY 683,000 PERSONS
Average of 1904-5 to 1908-9
| Deaths. | Propery Left. | ||
| POOR AND VERY POOR | |||
| Died with so little property that no affidavit was sworn (Property estimated at £10,000,000, see p. 58) | 592,294 | £10,000,000 | |
| Died Bankrupt | 1,670 | — | |
| Died leaving less than £100 net | 15,956 | 900,000 | |
| Died leaving between £100 and £500 net | 34,279 | 10,000,000 | |
| Died leaving between £500 and £1,000 net | 10,404 | 8,600,000 | |
| Total Poor and Very Poor | 654,603 | £29,500,000 | |
| RICH AND VERY RICH | |||
| Died under age without property | 7,500 | — | |
| Died leaving between £1,000 net and £10,000 net | 16,910 | 62,100,000 | |
| Died leaving between £10,000 net and £1,000,000 net | 3,980 | 179,500,000 | |
| Died millionaires | 7 | 18,100,000 | |
| Total Rich and Very Rich | 28,397 | £259,700,000 | |
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Total Rich and Poor | 683,000 | £292,500,000 |
170 persons per annum die worth £150,000 each; 80 die worth over £250,000 each; 26 die worth over £500,000 each; and 7 die worth about £2,500,000 each.
Thus, in an average year, 26 persons die leaving between them far more than is possessed by 654,000 poor persons who die in one year. Again, in a single average year, the wealth left by the few rich people who die approaches in amount the aggregate property possessed by the whole of the living poor.