{"id":18999,"date":"2016-01-18T13:06:31","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T12:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=18999"},"modified":"2016-01-18T13:06:31","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T12:06:31","slug":"how-many-of-the-worlds-richest-people-have-the-same-wealth-as-half-of-the-globes-total-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=18999","title":{"rendered":"How many of the world&#8217;s richest people have the same wealth as half of the globe&#8217;s total population?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Oxfam has calculated that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In 2015, just 62 individuals had the same wealth as 3.6 billion people \u2013 the bottom half of humanity. This figure is down from 388 individuals as recently as 2010.<\/li>\n<li>The wealth of the richest 62 people has risen by 44% in the five years since 2010 \u2013 that&#8217;s an increase of more than half a trillion dollars ($542bn), to $1.76 trillion.<\/li>\n<li>Meanwhile, the wealth of the bottom half fell by just over a trillion dollars in the same period \u2013 a drop of 41%.<\/li>\n<li>Since the turn of the century, the poorest half of the world\u2019s population has received just 1% of the total increase in global wealth, while half of that increase has gone to the top 1%.<\/li>\n<li>The average annual income of the poorest 10% of people in the world has risen by less than $3 each year in almost a quarter of a century. Their daily income has risen by less than a single cent every year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These figures are contained in a new Oxfam report entitled <em>&#8220;An Economy For the 1%: How privilege and power in the economy drive extreme inequality and how this can be stopped&#8221;<\/em> which you can access <a href=\"http:\/\/policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk\/publications\/an-economy-for-the-1-how-privilege-and-power-in-the-economy-drive-extreme-inequ-592643\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oxfam has calculated that: In 2015, just 62 individuals had the same wealth as 3.6 billion people \u2013 the bottom half of humanity. This figure is down from 388 individuals as recently as 2010. The wealth of the richest 62 people has risen by 44% in the five years since 2010 \u2013 that&#8217;s an increase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18999"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19003,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18999\/revisions\/19003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}