BILL Gates is set to become the world's first trillionaire within 25 years.

And that's despite the Microsoft founder's "commendable efforts" to try and share it around, a report by Oxfam into poverty inequality has found.

2 Bill Gates speaking in London in October last year Credit: EPA

World's rich list These are the world's richest Bill Gates Microsoft founder is worth £59.35billion ($75billion) Amancio Ortega The Zara owner is worth £53billion ($67billion) Warren Buffett The Berkshire Hathaway owner is worth (£48.11billion) $60.8billion Carlos Slim The Movil owner is worth £39.56billion $50billion Jeff Bezos The Amazon founder is worth £36billion ($45.2billion) Mark Zuckerberg The Facebook founder is worth £35.35billion ($44.6billion) Larry Ellison The Oracle software founder is worth £35billion ($43.6billion) Michael Bloomberg The Bloomberg founder is worth £31.2billion ($40.0 billion) Charles Koch The Koch industries founder is worth £31billion ($39.6billion) David Koch The Koch industries founder is worth £31billion ($39.6 billion)

The Microsoft founder is worth a staggering £59.35billion Credit: AP:Associated Press

Already the world's richest man with a fortune thought to be around $75billion (£59.35billion), Gates' wealth now has a momentum of its own and is set to accumulate even further.

Oxfam said Gates' fortune has risen 50 percent - the equivalent of $25billion (£20billion) - since stepping down from working full-time at Microsoft in 2006.

The report stated if billionaires like Gates continue to secure these returns, "we could see the world's first trillionaire in 25 years".

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It appears that no matter how hard you try, "if you are already rich you have to try hard not to keep getting a lot richer", according to the poverty experts.

They say the world's eight billionaires have as much wealth as the 3.6billion people who make up the poorest half of the world's population.

Gates is predicted to hit the trillion mark by the age of 86 but is unlikely to leave much of it in his will.

Some of the richest people of the world, (left coloumn top to bottom) US investor Warren Buffett, Spanish Inditex fashion founder Amancio Ortega, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Bloomberg CEO Michael Bloomberg; (righ colomn top to bottom) Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Telmex CEO Carlos Slim, Oracle founder Larry Ellison, and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg Credit: EPA

The philanthropist been very open about how he will not gift his kids inheritance money over fears it will "distort their lives".

He said his three children Jennifer, 20, Rory, 17, and Phoebe, 14, would not be receiving his ­£70billion fortune as it was going to good works instead.

He said: "Our kids will receive a great education and some money so they are never going to be poorly off but they'll go out and have their own career.

"It's not a favour to kids to have them have huge sums of wealth.

"It distorts anything they might do, creating their own path."

2 The Microsoft founder said money would distort his kids' lives and has pledged to give his fortune to charity Credit: This Morning / ITV

The 61-year-old set up the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation with his wife in 2000 and the trust has already given away $28billion in the fight against global poverty.

The billionaire also offered some sage advice for the world's poorest, telling people that raising chickens is the key to prosperity in a bizarre blog post.

Recently the Gates Foundation joined a new $460 million global coalition in a bid to prevent epidemics.

The project focuses on rapidly developing vaccines to save lives.

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