UN General Assembly
1966

Out of a population of over 3,000 million inhabitants, more than 2,000 million share only 15 per cent of the earth's riches; fewer than 1,000 million enjoy the lion's share, 85 per cent. This fact is all too well known and perhaps there was no need to dwell upon it. What is most disturbing is the fact that, despite the denunciations and condemnations to which the situation has given rise, it is growing worse and worse. We are aware that in 1938 the ratio between the income of the developed world and that of the under-developed world was fifteen to one. This ratio is now thirty-five to one. If the gulf continues to widen, by the year 2000 one fourth of the earth's population will have an income forty times higher than that of three fourths of this same population.