Billionaire wealth surged in 2024, as the world’s richest people increasingly benefited from inheritance and powerful connections, Oxfam said in its annual inequality report.

The combined wealth of all the world’s billionaires is now an eye-watering $15tn ... be raised to tackle inequality here in the UK and overseas and provide crucial investment for our public services. ...

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The first big ... The number of billionaires rose by 204 to 2,769, and the 10 richest men saw their wealth rise nearly $100 million a day on average, it said. Citing World Bank data, the group ...

The report also predicted that the world's first trillionaires would emerge within the next decade, as the wealth of the richest 10 billionaires grew by $100 million per day on average ...