Hindujas - Only Britons In World's Top Billionaires List

"In 2010, the richest 80 people in the world had a net wealth of 1.3 trillion dollars. By 2014, the 80 people who top the 'Forbes' rich list had a collective wealth of 1.9 trillion dollars; an increase of 600 billion dollars in just four years, or 50 per cent in nominal terms," the Oxfam report titled 'Wealth: Having It All and Wanting More' says.

"This unprecedented growth of wealth by the rich means the 1 per cent of the richest people in the world now own 48 per cent of all global wealth, resulting in just 52 per cent left to be shared between the other 99 per cent of us," it says.

The study says that wealthy individuals have generated and sustained their riches through interests and activities in a few important economic sectors like the financial and insurance sectors -- the most commonly cited source of wealth for billionaires on this list.

Oxfam has called on world leaders, including those gathered at the 2015 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting here, to address the factors that have led to the current inequality explosion.

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