in the world have a combined wealth equal to that of the bottom 50% of the world's population, or about 3.5 billion people. In January 2015, Oxfam predicted the wealthiest 1% of income earners will own more than half of global wealth by 2016. An Oxfam report released in 2017 stated that eight billionaires possess the same amount of wealth as the poorest half of humanity.

The current focus of Oxfam's campaigns includes economic inequality (including tax justice), gender justice}}vague}} and climate