Group’s report comes as the world’s political and financial elite prepare for an annual gathering in Davos, Switzerland.

Billionaire's wealth has grown faster last year, and now the world can expect at least 5 trillionaires within a decade, even as the number of people in poverty has barely budged since 1990.

Billionaires' wealth grew three times faster in 2024 than the year before, top anti-poverty group Oxfam International reported in its latest assessment of global inequality as some of the world's political and financial elite prepared for the opening of the World Economic Forum,

In 2024, an average of nearly four new billionaires were coined every week, according to Oxfam. Much of their wealth will be passed down to heirs.

At current trends the charity Oxfam predicts up to five trillionaires are expected to emerge within the next decade.

Oxfam's annual inequality report shows the rapid acceleration of wealth accumulation by the world's richest in 2024, as 44 percent of the world continues to live in poverty. FRANCE 24's Business

According to Oxfam International, the wealth of billionaires globally grew three times faster in 2024 compared to the previous year, just as many of

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The Oxfam report, which draws on data compiled by Forbes, is timed to coincide with the kickoff of the annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, an elite gathering of some of the ...

Billionaires' wealth grew three times faster in 2024 than the previous year, anti-poverty group Oxfam International reported in its latest assessment of global inequality as some of the world's political and financial elite prepared for the opening of the World Economic Forum,

Switzerland. Oxfam International, in its latest assessment of global inequality timed to the opening of the World Economic Forum meeting, also predicts at least five trillionaires will crop up ...

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