claim: "the world's 62 richest people own the same wealth as the 3.6 billion poorest."
author: oxfam america
evidence_1: jan 15, 2017 ... world's eight richest people have same wealth as poorest 50% ... $426bn (£ 350bn), equivalent to the wealth of 3.6 billion people. ... last year, oxfam said the  world's 62 richest billionaires were as wealthy as half the world's ...
evidence_2: jan 16, 2017 ... eight men own the same wealth as the 3.6 billion people who make up the ...  billionaires owned the same wealth as the poorest half of the planet, and not 62,  as oxfam .... the world's 8 richest people are, in order of net worth:.
evidence_3: jan 17, 2016 ... the world's richest are getting richer while the wealth of the poorest is ... of the  poorest half of the world's population – 3.6 billion people – has ...
evidence_4: jan 20, 2016 ... the world's 62 richest people own the same wealth as the 3.6 billion ... people in  the world own as much as the poorest half of the world's ...
evidence_5: jan 16, 2017 ... today just eight people have the same wealth as 3.6 billion of the world's ...  oxfam told you last year it was 62 people who had all these spoils and ... the  super-rich are accumulating wealth at such a rapid rate that the world ...