Between 2020 and 2021 the concentration of wealth in Italy grows: the share held by the richest 10% of Italians (6 times that held by the poorest half of the population) increased by 1.3 percentage points on an annual basis against a substantial stability of the share of the poorest 20% and a decrease in the shares of wealth of the other deciles of the population. The wealth in the hands of the richest 5% of Italians (holder of 41.7% of net national wealth) at the end of 2021 was higher than that held by the poorest 80% of our compatriots (31.4%). The super-rich with assets exceeding 5 million dollars (0.134% of Italians) were holders, at the end of 2021, of an amount of wealth equivalent to that possessed by 60% of the poorest Italians. This is what emerges from "Inequality kills", the new report published today by Oxfam, the organization committed to fighting inequality, on the occasion of the opening of the World Economic Forum in Davos.
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