World Wealth
World's 26 Wealthiest Own As Much As Poorest 50%
As leaders gather to hash out the world’s woes, Oxfam released a report ahead of the meeting to draw attention to global economic inequality. The report found that there are now more billionaires than ever before. In 2018 there were 2,208 billionaires, just about double the number of billionaires there were in 2008. The concentration of wealth for the world’s wealthiest has also heightened over the past year. In 2017, 43 of the wealthiest people had as much wealth as the poorest poorest half of the world's population. By 2018, it only took 26 of the world’s wealthiest people to equal the amount of wealth that the 3.8 billion poorest people on the planet hold.
