There are three criteria for dividing the middle class: 1. Classification of the middle class in China: According to the per capita GDP and purchasing power, the National Bureau of Statistics concluded that the annual income of middle class families is between 60,000 and 500,000 RMB.
In China, the wealth of the middle class is over-allocated in real estate, reaching 79.5%, while the proportion of financial assets is too low, only 10.8%. Heather said: "Now there are about 220 million people in Asia (excluding Japanese) who belong to the affluent middle class, and more than half of them live in China.
This means that a quarter of the rich middle class in the world can speak Chinese. This is a testimony to the rapid rise of China, and it will also have a far-reaching impact on the global financial market.
Second, the division of the middle class in the United States: in terms of income, the average American family can be considered to belong to the middle class with an annual income of 300,000 to 200,000 US dollars. It is estimated that about 80% of Americans belong to the middle class. Three. Indian standards Any family with an average annual after-tax income of 33,750 rupees to/kloc-0.5 rupees (about 7-3,000 US dollars) can be regarded as a middle-class family.
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The current situation of the international middle class: 1. Britain is 1, an aristocratic middle class, with wealth second only to the elite, and quite abundant economic, social and cultural capital. 2. Newly rich workers, mostly self-made, socially and culturally active new class, with moderate income and economic capital.
3. Middle-class technology, limited social level and limited pursuit of cultural life. The most typical middle class in Britain owns a three-bedroom single-family house worth nearly 280 thousand pounds, one or two cars-usually Nissan or British brands, and about 26 thousand pounds in deposits or investments at home. Second, Japan 1, the annual income of the Japanese middle class is between 3 million and 6 million yen (about190,000-380,000 RMB).
According to this data, the middle class accounts for 48. 1% of the total population, but 80% of Japanese still consider themselves middle class. Most Japanese people feel "confident" about their financial situation, but the way they spend money has changed, saving more "entertainment expenses" and "food, drink and clothing expenses".
Japanese society was more like an apple. Basically, everyone is middle class, and there is not much difference. References:
Baidu encyclopedia-middle class.
What is the standard of 20 17 middle class?
There are usually two criteria for dividing the middle class, one is occupation, and the other is per capita or family income.
It is controversial to distinguish the middle class by occupation. As for the staff of state organs, it is obviously difficult for directors and directors to compare with ordinary clerks and clerks. I am afraid that the income and social status gap between the staff of "important" organs such as the industrial and commercial bureau and the tax bureau and the staff of "ordinary" organs such as the Seismological Bureau, the Archives Bureau and the Bureau of Retired Veteran Cadres is also different. As IT technicians, some people may live in villas and drive foreign cars, and some people can only eat instant noodles and squeeze the bus every day.
More people, including economists, tend to regard income as the only or main criterion for dividing the middle class. But even if everyone distinguishes who is middle class and who is not, there are still many uncertainties and quantitative confusion.
For example, in the United States, some people think that people with an average annual income of $30,000 to $654.38+million belong to the middle class. According to this standard, more than 95% people in the United States should belong to the middle class. Others believe that the average annual income of the American middle class should be between $25,000 and $654.38 million+,and anyone with an average annual income within this range can be regarded as a middle class.
By this standard, the American middle class accounts for about 80% of the total population. In the United States, known as the base camp of the middle class, the standards for distinguishing the middle class are still so confusing, not to mention the rest of the world.
Take India as an example. According to the Indian Policy Research Center, there are about 300 million middle classes in India. India's "National Applied Economic Research Council" is the maker and publisher of Indian middle class standards. The Indian middle class standard issued by it is: all families with an average annual after-tax income of 33,750 rupees to 15 rupees (about 700-3,000 US dollars, and the current exchange rate of US dollars to rupees is about 1:48.5) can be regarded as middle class families.
According to this calculation, in 200 1 year, 60 million families in India will become middle-class families. For a family of five, there are currently 300 million middle classes in India.
From this perspective, a country's middle class can have as much as you said, because there is no uniform standard and it is very casual. According to the standards of the Indian middle class, if the average annual income of a family is 700 dollars, it can be regarded as a middle class family. According to China's current foreign exchange rate, US$ 700 is equivalent to about 6,000 yuan, which is shared by a family of five, with an annual average of only about 1.000 yuan per person per month.
At this level of income, I'm afraid it's even a problem to eat enough in many places in China, let alone "middle class" or "middle class". When the US Department of Commerce announced that India is one of the top ten emerging markets in the world, it said that the middle class in India has reached about 654.38+75 million (almost half less than the estimate of relevant Indian institutions). In the future, everyone in these Indian middle classes will have to buy at least one TV set, a tape recorder, a pressure cooker, a ceiling fan, a bicycle and a watch. Two thirds of them also need to buy mopeds, color TVs, electric irons, food mixers and sewing machines; Less than half of people want to buy refrigerators ... "What a big consumer market this will be!" For others, this is more like American black humor.
What is the standard of the middle class?
There are usually two criteria for dividing the middle class, one is occupation, and the other is per capita or family income.
1, occupation, there are many disputes about distinguishing the middle class by occupation. As for the staff of state organs, it is obviously difficult to compare directors and directors with ordinary clerks and clerks. I am afraid that the income and social status gap between the staff of "important" organs such as the Administration for Industry and Commerce and the Taxation Bureau and those of "ordinary" organs such as the Seismological Bureau, the Archives Bureau and the Bureau of Retired Veteran Cadres is far from the same. 2, per capita or household income, the middle class in one country and another country, individual or family income standards are different, the division is also different, because of the lack of unified standards, very casual.
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Regarding the popular definition of the middle class, most of them are engaged in mental work, mainly relying on wages and salaries to make a living, generally well-educated, with professional knowledge, strong professional ability and corresponding family consumption ability; Have a certain amount of leisure time, pursue the quality of life, and generally have certain management and control over their own labor and work objects. At the same time, most of them have good civic moral consciousness and corresponding cultivation.
At present, the average wage income of our society is not high, and the income of most workers is lower than the average level. The pattern of social distribution is far from the "olive shape" of developed countries with market economy, but a "pyramid shape" with a large bottom and a thin top. Therefore, Su Hainan believes that it is inappropriate to simply apply international standards to determine the middle class or middle-income group. Therefore, many scholars, including Professor Qing Lianbin of the Central Party School, believe that there is no so-called middle class in China at this stage.