According to Oxfam, half of the world's population - 3.8 billion - is already richer than the 26 most affluent people. The disproportionate trend in the distribution of wealth in recent years has increased: In 2016, 62 richest people had the same money as half of the world's population, in 2017 there were 43 and today there are 26.

We highlight some relevant data from the report:

Since the beginning of the economic crisis ten years ago, the number of rich in the world has doubled to over EUR 1 billion. Throughout 2017 and 2018, for example, every two days a new person has earned more than one billion euros.

Only 1 percent of the wealth of Jeff Bezos, the owner of Amazon and the richest person in the world, is equivalent to the health budget of a country of 105 million people like Ethiopia.

Oxfam’s campaign and policy director Matthew Spencer has denounced that “in our economies wealth is increasingly unjustly shared among a privileged few, when millions of people can barely survive.”

He has also warned that there is wealth in the world so that everyone has a "more just life option."

To this end, Spencer has stated that the taxes that governments receive from riches must be invested in “free and quality public services that would save the lives of many people.”