The wealth of the world's 10 richest people has doubled during the pandemic. At the same time, the global crisis has meant for millions of people around the world reduced incomes, poorer healthcare, and problems with access to basic public services. As a result, 160 million people, previously untouched by poverty, were pushed into it. In addition, there is a difficult situation for people who have already dealt with this problem.

Economic factors (such as the problem with access to health care or malnutrition) caused by the pandemic on a global scale also meant 21,000 deaths per day. At the same time, every day of the pandemic there was one more billionaire in the world. 

This is data from a report on global inequality published by Oxfam, a British charity.

"This year's data is completely off the scale. There is something deeply wrong with our economic system," Danny Sriskandarajah, director of the organization, said.

The ten richest people whose fortunes Oxfam has investigated are Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Bernard Arnault, Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Ballmer, and Warren Buffet.

Their combined wealth doubled from March 2020 to November 2021, from $700 billion to $1.5 trillion, the BBC points out. But Bill Gates' fortune has grown by less than a third (30 percent) during that time, while Tesla boss Elon Musk has grown tenfold.

(300gospodarka)