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Thanks for sharing. These data date back to 2016. In the following years, Oxfam updated the report where they found this inequality to be further exacerbated: "Just 8 men own same wealth as half the world" [0, 1].

[0] https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/just-8-men-own-same-...

[1] https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/worlds-billionaires-...

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These were the 8 men:

1. Bill Gates (Microsoft)

2. Amancio Ortega (Inditex)

3. Warren Buffett (Berkshire Hathaway)

4. Carlos Slim (América Móvil, Grupo Carso)

5. Jeff Bezos (Amazon)

6. Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook)

7. Larry Ellison (Oracle)

8. Michael Bloomberg (Bloomberg LP)

Their wealth totaled $426 billion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World's_Billionaires#2016

This is all very interesting, thanks for sharing. While I am not familiar at all with such degree of wealth, the first thing I noticed while looking at this list is the absence of personalities from other regions of the globe, such as the MENA and Asia. I appreciate the histories and relevance of the people listed here, but I am reminded, at the same time, that the wealth of other key people is not fully understood and ascertained, due to a lack transparency – MBS and Putin come to my mind, among others. In a way this is the documented wealth, which is anyway key to understand the world we live in.

Transparency, all of these people get the majority of their wealth from ownership of public companies. So it is easy to estimate their overall wealth.

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