The coronavirus pandemic has become a factor accelerating the erosion of the dominant position of Western countries, as well as increasing the polarization and fragmentation of world regions. In the context of these changes, the article recognized the accumulation of private wealth as an important indicator of global change. Its theoretical perspective is determined by the redefinition of the logic of state power and capital power, which in the period of counteracting the pandemic strengthens the role of governments in relations with the wealth elite. It describes the distribution of wealth in the largest economies of the world, its concentration in the highest percentage of the country’s population, inequality, changes in the directions of wealth distribution, together with an overview of the causes of this phenomenon. It concludes by commenting on some of the implications private wealth data can have for international relations, capitalism, and elite research.
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