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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.

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

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.

Large areas. Median and mean wealth per adult, in US dollars. Number of adults. Also, total wealth in billion USD. (2023 publication).[1]
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.

Median and mean wealth per adult, in US dollars. Wealth Gini.
2023 publication. 2022 data.[1]
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.[2]

Asterisk (*) indicates "Wealth in LOCATION" or "Economy of LOCATION" links.

GDP per adult, in US dollars. (2022 publication).[2]
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

See also

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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).
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