The 62 Richest People in the World Hold As Much Wealth As the Bottom 50% By Notable Life By Notable LifeView Author|January 18, 2016|TrendingView Trending A new Oxfam report has revealed a truly obscene statistic about the global distribution of wealth: the number of people whose wealth is equal to that of the poorest half of the world's population can now fit on a yacht.... View this article.