In 2024 the wealth of Italian billionaires increased by 61.1 billion euros – to 166 million per day – reaching a total value of 272.5 billion held by 71 individuals. All this in the face of a “picture of great concern” for absolute poverty, which in 2023 remained stable compared to the previous year but saw over 2.2 million families, for a total of 5.7 million people, living in conditions of absolute poverty. The richest 5% of families own 47.7% of the national wealth.
This is the picture outlined by Oxfam in its report ‘Inequality: unjust poverty and undeserved wealth’ published on the occasion of the World Economic Forum in Davos, which gives an account of an acceleration, at a global level, of the gap between the wealth of billionaires and the poor.
