This is a list of countries of the world by wealth per adult or household, from sources such as UBS's annual Global Wealth Databook[1] and the OECD's Better Life Index.[2] Wealth includes both financial and non-financial assets.
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UBS Global Wealth Databook's list of countries by wealth per adult (USD)
UBS publishes various statistics relevant for calculating net wealth. These figures are influenced by real estate prices, equity market prices, exchange rates, liabilities, debts, adult percentage of the population, human resources, natural resources and capital and technological advancements, which may create new assets or render others worthless in the future.
During periods of equity market growth, the relative national and per capita wealth of countries where people are more exposed to those markets, such as the United States and the United Kingdom, tends to rise. But when equity markets are down, the relative wealth of countries where people invest more in real estate or bonds, such as France and Italy, tends to drop instead. Countries with older populations, like Germany and Italy, would have higher relative wealth, if calculated per capita and not per adult.
In nations where wealth is highly concentrated in a small percentage of people (a higher Gini % in the tables below), the mean (obtained by dividing the total aggregate wealth by the number of adults) can be much higher than the median (the amount that divides the population into two equal groups).[citation needed]
By region
Location links are "Economy of LOCATION" links.
Location | Adults | Median wealth | Mean wealth | Total Wealth (billion USD) | Gini % |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
North America | 284,248,000 | 108,918 | 531,286 | 151,170 | 82.3 |
Europe | 589,291,000 | 28,611 | 177,179 | 104,410 | 80.9 |
China | 1,115,602,000 | 27,273 | 75,731 | 84,485 | 70.9 |
World | 5,363,519,000 | 8,654 | 84,718 | 454,385 | 88.3 |
Latin America | 460,054,000 | 6,341 | 32,760 | 15,071 | 85.4 |
Asia-Pacific (excluding China and India) |
1,275,041,000 | 5,176 | 61,154 | 77,974 | 88.1 |
India | 931,224,000 | 3,755 | 16,500 | 15,365 | 82.5 |
Africa | 708,059,000 | 1,242 | 8,345 | 5,909 | 87.1 |
By country
Gini: Higher Gini coefficients signify greater inequality in wealth distribution. A Gini coefficient of 0 reflects perfect wealth equality, where all wealth values are the same, while a Gini coefficient of 1 (or 100%) reflects maximal wealth inequality, a situation where a single individual has all the wealth while all others have none.
Location links are "Wealth in LOCATION" or "Economy of LOCATION" links. See categories: Wealth by country. And: Economies by country.
Location | Adults | Median | Mean | Gini % |
---|---|---|---|---|
Albania | 2,200,000 | 17,280 | 34,839 | 68.6 |
Algeria | 28,349,000 | 3,226 | 12,491 | 85.2 |
Angola | 15,394,000 | 1,716 | 5,418 | 81.2 |
Antigua and Barbuda | 71,000 | 8,916 | 30,634 | 82.5 |
Argentina | 31,540,000 | 4,354 | 13,323 | 80.0 |
Armenia | 2,179,000 | 14,215 | 34,988 | 73.2 |
Aruba | 82,000 | 18,428 | 61,622 | 81.9 |
Australia | 19,564,000 | 247,453 | 496,819 | 66.3 |
Austria | 7,314,000 | 68,492 | 245,225 | 76.1 |
Azerbaijan | 7,278,000 | 9,209 | 21,578 | 72.3 |
Bahamas | 287,000 | 10,885 | 72,971 | 88.9 |
Bahrain | 1,376,000 | 13,904 | 84,313 | 89.7 |
Bangladesh | 110,099,000 | 3,842 | 9,796 | 75.0 |
Barbados | 223,000 | 31,436 | 91,291 | 80.9 |
Belarus | 7,312,000 | 18,466 | 34,835 | 67.1 |
Belgium | 9,055,000 | 249,937 | 352,814 | 59.6 |
Belize | 259,000 | 3,928 | 14,966 | 83.4 |
Benin | 6,218,000 | 922 | 2,823 | 79.8 |
Bolivia | 7,395,000 | 4,913 | 14,222 | 80.6 |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2,627,000 | 16,484 | 33,593 | 69.0 |
Botswana | 1,427,000 | 3,591 | 16,567 | 88.5 |
Brazil | 157,120,000 | 5,702 | 29,452 | 88.4 |
Brunei | 318,000 | 6,983 | 39,908 | 89.0 |
Bulgaria | 5,487,000 | 22,759 | 47,074 | 70.6 |
Burkina Faso | 10,144,000 | 563 | 1,713 | 79.6 |
Burundi | 5,741,000 | 453 | 947 | 70.2 |
Cambodia | 10,532,000 | 2,185 | 6,036 | 77.5 |
Cameroon | 13,517,000 | 910 | 3,271 | 83.7 |
Canada | 30,474,000 | 137,633 | 369,577 | 72.3 |
Central African Republic | 2,296,000 | 260 | 952 | 85.3 |
Chad | 7,581,000 | 483 | 1,297 | 77.2 |
Chile | 14,409,000 | 19,544 | 54,082 | 78.8 |
China | 1,115,602,000 | 27,273 | 75,731 | 70.9 |
Colombia | 36,500,000 | 4,450 | 15,464 | 83.1 |
Comoros | 471,000 | 1,256 | 5,285 | 86.2 |
DR Congo | 42,527,000 | 492 | 1,662 | 83.0 |
Congo | 2,868,000 | 380 | 1,465 | 85.4 |
Costa Rica | 3,795,000 | 19,356 | 55,545 | 79.7 |
Croatia | 3,270,000 | 34,837 | 70,461 | 69.6 |
Cyprus | 691,000 | 40,957 | 158,321 | 78.4 |
Czech Republic | 8,519,000 | 23,502 | 90,393 | 78.5 |
Denmark | 4,559,000 | 186,041 | 409,954 | 73.6 |
Djibouti | 645,000 | 1,285 | 3,853 | 78.4 |
Dominica | 50,000 | 13,789 | 44,406 | 81.1 |
Ecuador | 11,782,000 | 7,610 | 21,650 | 80.3 |
Egypt | 61,853,000 | 6,656 | 20,195 | 79.2 |
El Salvador | 4,304,000 | 15,049 | 47,422 | 81.7 |
Equatorial Guinea | 821,000 | 7,501 | 30,333 | 87.1 |
Eritrea | 1,802,000 | 1,431 | 3,688 | 76.0 |
Estonia | 1,035,000 | 39,586 | 78,777 | 73.1 |
Ethiopia | 61,191,000 | 2,124 | 4,905 | 72.5 |
European Union | 355,665,000 | 77,515 (est.) | 213,429 | |
Fiji | 574,000 | 5,950 | 17,998 | 78.5 |
Finland | 4,399,000 | 84,093 | 179,986 | 72.4 |
France | 50,368,000 | 133,137 | 312,235 | 70.3 |
Gabon | 1,270,000 | 5,487 | 16,217 | 79.8 |
Gambia | 1,189,000 | 735 | 2,986 | 86.0 |
Georgia | 2,930,000 | 9,451 | 28,169 | 79.7 |
Germany | 68,024,000 | 66,735 | 256,179 | 77.2 |
Ghana | 17,493,000 | 2,622 | 6,423 | 75.3 |
Greece | 8,421,000 | 53,501 | 105,724 | 68.1 |
Grenada | 79,000 | 19,736 | 64,092 | 81.3 |
Guinea | 6,533,000 | 2,060 | 6,638 | 81.6 |
Guinea-Bissau | 1,004,000 | 664 | 1,791 | 77.6 |
Guyana | 509,000 | 6,896 | 18,587 | 76.8 |
Haiti | 6,885,000 | 207 | 626 | 81.3 |
Hong Kong | 6,338,000 | 202,406 | 551,194 | 73.7 |
Hungary | 7,725,000 | 26,416 | 59,348 | 67.7 |
Iceland | 259,000 | 413,193 | 498,290 | 64.5 |
India | 931,224,000 | 3,755 | 16,500 | 82.5 |
Indonesia | 186,544,000 | 4,819 | 17,457 | 78.0 |
Iran | 59,323,000 | 17,341 | 51,147 | 78.8 |
Ireland | 3,695,000 | 90,741 | 247,080 | 79.9 |
Israel | 5,812,000 | 77,604 | 235,445 | 74.9 |
Italy | 49,781,000 | 107,315 | 221,370 | 67.8 |
Jamaica | 2,078,000 | 7,529 | 24,547 | 82.4 |
Japan | 104,511,000 | 103,681 | 216,078 | 65.0 |
Jordan | 6,041,000 | 14,219 | 38,923 | 76.7 |
Kazakhstan | 12,373,000 | 25,225 | 58,205 | 77.4 |
Kenya | 29,346,000 | 4,356 | 14,829 | 82.8 |
South Korea | 42,859,000 | 92,719 | 230,760 | 67.9 |
Kuwait | 3,224,000 | 41,605 | 175,072 | 85.4 |
Kyrgyzstan | 4,040,000 | 3,398 | 8,542 | 74.8 |
Laos | 4,472,000 | 1,366 | 6,191 | 87.3 |
Latvia | 1,441,000 | 46,899 | 97,583 | 80.4 |
Lesotho | 1,276,000 | 266 | 1,531 | 91.1 |
Liberia | 2,661,000 | 1,977 | 5,886 | 80.1 |
Libya | 4,590,000 | 5,223 | 13,420 | 76.2 |
Lithuania | 2,115,000 | 32,385 | 69,541 | 70.6 |
Luxembourg | 510,000 | 360,715 | 585,950 | 64.8 |
Madagascar | 14,747,000 | 658 | 2,257 | 82.2 |
Malawi | 9,542,000 | 620 | 2,415 | 85.1 |
Malaysia | 23,130,000 | 8,523 | 29,314 | 83.1 |
Maldives | 401,000 | 7,970 | 25,187 | 81.3 |
Mali | 9,235,000 | 863 | 2,658 | 80.2 |
Malta | 360,000 | 96,835 | 160,265 | 60.9 |
Mauritania | 2,518,000 | 1,125 | 3,013 | 76.4 |
Mauritius | 984,000 | 31,103 | 68,846 | 71.4 |
Mexico | 87,983,000 | 18,920 | 55,274 | 79.3 |
Moldova | 3,173,000 | 10,131 | 20,590 | 69.3 |
Mongolia | 2,097,000 | 3,003 | 7,578 | 74.2 |
Montenegro | 477,000 | 43,438 | 81,900 | 69.3 |
Morocco | 25,026,000 | 3,896 | 13,862 | 82.3 |
Mozambique | 15,210,000 | 570 | 1,353 | 74.9 |
Myanmar | 36,861,000 | 3,636 | 7,670 | 68.0 |
Namibia | 1,432,000 | 4,832 | 20,690 | 87.0 |
Nepal | 19,193,000 | 1,685 | 4,672 | 77.6 |
Netherlands | 13,591,000 | 112,450 | 358,235 | 78.8 |
New Zealand | 3,668,000 | 193,065 | 388,761 | 69.9 |
Nicaragua | 4,263,000 | 5,133 | 16,083 | 81.6 |
Niger | 10,550,000 | 599 | 1,436 | 73.9 |
Nigeria | 101,545,000 | 1,507 | 6,879 | 86.5 |
Norway | 4,267,000 | 143,887 | 385,338 | 76.9 |
Oman | 3,858,000 | 11,377 | 48,951 | 87.5 |
Pakistan | 129,747,000 | 2,076 | 5,226 | 74.4 |
Panama | 2,955,000 | 15,724 | 50,917 | 82.5 |
Papua New Guinea | 5,197,000 | 1,828 | 8,606 | 88.6 |
Paraguay | 4,616,000 | 4,930 | 14,809 | 81.0 |
Peru | 23,041,000 | 7,555 | 22,514 | 80.1 |
Philippines | 69,804,000 | 3,155 | 14,486 | 87.3 |
Poland | 30,181,000 | 20,263 | 52,741 | 68.4 |
Portugal | 8,337,000 | 70,409 | 158,840 | 70.3 |
Qatar | 2,465,000 | 90,262 | 164,992 | 58.6 |
Romania | 15,057,000 | 21,545 | 44,320 | 69.3 |
Russia | 110,998,000 | 8,595 | 39,514 | 86.9 |
Rwanda | 6,990,000 | 1,711 | 5,561 | 82.0 |
Samoa | 109,000 | 4,150 | 11,929 | 77.7 |
São Tomé and Príncipe | 110,000 | 1,775 | 4,162 | 73.7 |
Saudi Arabia | 24,925,000 | 20,701 | 90,975 | 86.7 |
Senegal | 8,492,000 | 1,664 | 5,009 | 79.8 |
Serbia | 5,451,000 | 16,462 | 34,080 | 69.9 |
Seychelles | 69,000 | 37,787 | 94,620 | 76.2 |
Sierra Leone | 4,158,000 | 329 | 749 | 73.3 |
Singapore | 4,977,000 | 99,488 | 382,957 | 78.8 |
Slovakia | 4,341,000 | 40,703 | 62,125 | 50.8 |
Slovenia | 1,668,000 | 75,600 | 112,526 | 64.4 |
Solomon Islands | 367,000 | 3,429 | 11,660 | 82.0 |
South Africa | 38,667,000 | 5,141 | 23,956 | 88.8 |
Spain | 37,855,000 | 107,507 | 224,209 | 68.3 |
Sri Lanka | 14,966,000 | 8,615 | 23,991 | 77.2 |
Saint Lucia | 141,000 | 12,454 | 42,301 | 82.7 |
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 79,000 | 7,357 | 23,728 | 81.1 |
Suriname | 392,000 | 1,444 | 7,885 | 89.2 |
Sweden | 7,866,000 | 77,515 | 296,800 | 87.4 |
Switzerland | 7,047,000 | 167,353 | 685,226 | 77.2 |
Syria | 12,229,000 | 680 | 1,911 | 77.8 |
Taiwan | 19,803,000 | 108,247 | 273,788 | 69.8 |
Tajikistan | 5,442,000 | 1,863 | 4,592 | 73.8 |
Tanzania | 29,686,000 | 2,005 | 4,869 | 74.7 |
Thailand | 54,741,000 | 9,602 | 25,956 | 76.0 |
Togo | 4,336,000 | 488 | 1,520 | 81.5 |
Tonga | 60,000 | 20,960 | 55,898 | 77.7 |
Trinidad and Tobago | 1,042,000 | 20,960 | 55,939 | 75.9 |
Tunisia | 8,372,000 | 7,298 | 21,087 | 78.4 |
Turkey | 59,247,000 | 5,488 | 17,578 | 80.2 |
Uganda | 21,416,000 | 798 | 2,780 | 83.0 |
United Arab Emirates | 8,138,000 | 31,761 | 152,556 | 86.9 |
United Kingdom | 52,752,000 | 151,825 | 302,783 | 70.2 |
United States | 253,681,000 | 107,739 | 551,347 | 83.0 |
Uruguay | 2,560,000 | 33,522 | 84,778 | 77.2 |
Vanuatu | 170,000 | 5,276 | 16,347 | 79.9 |
Venezuela | 19,373,000 | 12,955 | 33,420 | 77.8 |
Vietnam | 69,792,000 | 5,309 | 14,569 | 78.8 |
Yemen | 16,241,000 | 1,406 | 6,492 | 88.4 |
Zambia | 8,987,000 | 774 | 3,761 | 89.0 |
More countries (rough estimates)
For some countries, Credit Suisse could not provide mean or median wealth numbers. For those countries they only provide "GDP per adult" numbers.[3]
Asterisk (*) indicates "Wealth in LOCATION" or "Economy of LOCATION" links.
Location | Region | GDP per adult |
---|---|---|
Andorra * | Europe | 52,474 |
Anguilla * | Latin America | 26,510 |
Bermuda * | North America | 189,744 |
Bhutan * | Asia-Pacific | 4,696 |
British Virgin Islands * | Latin America | 76,114 |
Cape Verde * | Africa | 5,380 |
Cayman Islands * | Latin America | 145,583 |
Cook Islands * | Asia-Pacific | 26,438 |
Ivory Coast * | Africa | 5,296 |
Cuba * | Latin America | 12,849 |
Curaçao * | Latin America | 22,146 |
Dominican Republic * | Latin America | 13,374 |
French Guiana * | Latin America | 25,840 |
French Polynesia * | Asia-Pacific | 29,500 |
Greenland * | North America | 83,833 |
Guadeloupe * | Latin America | 33,588 |
Guatemala * | Latin America | 8,198 |
Honduras * | Latin America | 4,643 |
Kiribati * | Asia-Pacific | 3,029 |
North Korea * | Asia-Pacific | 931 |
Kosovo * | Europe | 6,512 |
Liechtenstein * | Europe | 252,879 |
Macau * | Asia-Pacific | 52,442 |
Macedonia * | Europe | 8,624 |
Marshall Islands * | Asia-Pacific | 6,693 |
Martinique * | Latin America | 32,857 |
Mayotte * | Africa | 22,557 |
Micronesia * | Asia-Pacific | 5,726 |
Monaco * | Europe | 242,437 |
Montserrat * | Latin America | 21,123 |
Nauru * | Asia-Pacific | 23,398 |
New Caledonia * | Asia-Pacific | 48,630 |
Palau * | Asia-Pacific | 19,451 |
Palestine * | Asia-Pacific | 6,465 |
Puerto Rico * | Latin America | 48,031 |
Réunion * | Africa | 38,036 |
San Marino * | Europe | 62,268 |
Somalia * | Africa | 280 |
South Sudan * | Africa | 2,204 |
Sint Maarten * | Latin America | 30,547 |
Saint Kitts and Nevis * | Latin America | 24,397 |
Sudan * | Africa | 2,802 |
Swaziland * | Africa | 7,351 |
Turks and Caicos Islands | Latin America | 36,448 |
Tuvalu * | Asia-Pacific | 7,780 |
Uzbekistan * | Asia-Pacific | 3,063 |
OECD's list of countries by mean household wealth (USD)
Location links are "Wealth in LOCATION" or "Economy of LOCATION" links.
Location | Year | Wealth |
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Luxembourg | 2018 | 941,162 |
Switzerland | 2017 | 862,378 |
United States | 2019 | 684,500 |
Iceland | 2017 | 602,377 |
Australia | 2018 | 528,578 |
United Kingdom | 2017 | 524,422 |
New Zealand | 2018 | 514,162 |
Canada | 2019 | 478,240 |
Belgium | 2017 | 447,607 |
Sweden | 2017 | 435,100 |
Ireland | 2018 | 370,341 |
Spain | 2018 | 366,534 |
South Korea | 2019 | 362,340 |
Israel | 2017 | 345,228 |
Austria | 2017 | 309,637 |
Germany | 2017 | 304,317 |
France | 2017 | 298,639 |
Italy | 2016 | 295,020 |
Japan | 2014 | 294,735 |
Norway | 2018 | 268,358 |
Portugal | 2017 | 255,303 |
Netherlands | 2019 | 248,599 |
Poland | 2016 | 233,221 |
Finland | 2016 | 230,032 |
Slovenia | 2017 | 223,286 |
Estonia | 2017 | 188,627 |
Lithuania | 2017 | 182,039 |
Slovakia | 2017 | 171,425 |
Czech Republic | 2017 | 152,144 |
Hungary | 2017 | 150,296 |
Denmark | 2019 | 149,864 |
Greece | 2018 | 148,323 |
Chile | 2017 | 135,787 |
Mexico | 2017 | 121,741 |
Russia | 2017 | 103,017 |
Turkey | 2017 | 99,761 |
Brazil | 2017 | 95,092 |
South Africa | 2017 | 91,755 |
Colombia | 2017 | 87,431 |
Latvia | 2017 | 79,245 |
See also
- Wealth distribution by country
- Wealth distribution in Europe
- Financial and social rankings of sovereign states in Europe
- High-net-worth individual
- List of countries by financial assets per capita
- List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita
- List of countries by GNI (nominal) per capita
- List of countries by income equality
- List of countries by total wealth
- Wealth inequality in the United States
- Wealth
References
- ^ a b c "UBS Global Wealth Databook 2023" (PDF). UBS. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 15, 2023. See table 3-1 for all countries, on pages 123-126, for mean and median wealth, Gini coefficient, distribution of adults (%) by wealth range, and number of adults. See the end of table 4-1 on page 138 for regional numbers. Use page numbers at bottom of pages, not from PDF reader.
- ^ a b "OECD Better Life Index Income". stats.oecd.org. Retrieved 2023-06-17."Income in Detail by Country" entries include estimates of mean household net wealth. Entries link to BLI database. Click info icon on "Household net wealth" column header to get years.
- ^ a b "Credit Suisse Global Wealth Databook 2022" (PDF). Credit Suisse. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 23, 2022. See table 3-1 for all countries, on pages 119-122, for mean and median wealth, Gini coefficient, distribution of adults (%) by wealth range, and number of adults. All of that info (except the Gini coefficient) is also in table 2-2 on pages 109-112. See the end of table 2-2 on page 112 for regional numbers. Page 4 mentions "46 countries lacking sufficient suitable data for wealth estimation". Pages 20-24 (table 2-1) then feature estimates for GDP per adult for said countries, with wealth data quality characterized as "n.a." (not available).