Move over billionaires. The first trillionaires are on their way.
Oxfam’s latest inequality report, unveiled on the eve of the World Economic Forum in Davos, projects that five billionaires, led by Elon Musk, are set to surpass $1 trillion in wealth within a decade.
The world could soon see its first trillionaires, with five individuals projected to reach the milestone within the next decade if current trends persist, according to Oxfam's annual inequality report released Sunday reported CNN Business.
Behar said the planet's five richest people — Tesla CEO Elon Musk, LVMH owner Bernard Arnault, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Oracle founder Larry Ellison, and investor Warren Buffett — have seen their fortunes increase by 114 percent since 2020, and the prospect of someone amassing $1,000 billion — a trillion — is now very real.
The world will soon have five trillionaires. New research shows this will happen within a decade. Who will they be?
At current trends the charity Oxfam predicts up to five trillionaires are expected to emerge within the next decade.
In 2024, the wealth of the world’s billionaires soared by an astounding $2 trillion (£1.64 trillion), a growth rate three times faster than the previous year, averaging $5.7 billion per day, according to an Oxfam report.
Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Jensen Huang are among those expected to hit trillionaire status, with Oxfam suggesting that there will be five within the next 10 years. Within the next ten years five people will hold the title of trillionaire—with a 13-figure fortune to their name—according to a new study from Oxfam.
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Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and three others are projected to become trillionaires over the next decade, further deepening global inequality as poverty levels remain stagnant.
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, currently the world’s richest person worth more than $430 billion, should cross the mark in just under five years. He will soon be joined by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Oracle founder Larry Ellison, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault and family.
Oxfam, the collection of 21 non government agencies (NGO), the goal of which is to fight poverty, issued its annual report on the gulf between the world’s wealthiest people compared to the poorest. The report is always released before the World Economic Forum.