List of countries by wealth per adult

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Countries by mean wealth (US dollars) per adult. From 2021 publication of Credit Suisse. World map of mean wealth per adult by country. Credit Suisse. 2021 publication.png
Countries by mean wealth (US dollars) per adult. From 2021 publication of Credit Suisse.
Countries by median wealth (US dollars) per adult. From 2021 publication of Credit Suisse. World map of median wealth per adult by country. Credit Suisse. 2021 publication.png
Countries by median wealth (US dollars) per adult. From 2021 publication of Credit Suisse.

This is a list of countries of the world by wealth per adult, from UBS's Global Wealth Databook. [1] [2] Wealth includes both financial and non-financial assets.

Contents

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.

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.

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.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Income in the United Kingdom</span>

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "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.
  2. 1 2 "Global Wealth Report 2024" (PDF). UBS. See page 18 for top 25 countries in median wealth per adult, and top 25 countries in average (mean) wealth per adult. They are not the same 25 countries. Report does not have data for more countries.
  3. 1 2 "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).
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