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.
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 can be much higher than the median.[citation needed]
Location | Adults | Median wealth | Mean wealth | Total Wealth (billion USD) | Gini % |
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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 |
Gini: Higher Gini coefficients signify greater inequality in wealth distribution, with 0 being complete equality, whereas a value near 100% can arise in a situation where everybody has zero wealth except a very small minority.
Location | Adults | Median wealth | Mean wealth | Gini % |
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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 |
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 |
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 |
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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 |
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 |
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