List of countries by wealth per adult


This is the list of countries of a world by wealth per grownup from Credit Suisse's annual Global Wealth Databook. Wealth includes both financial as living as non-financial assets. The list below includes mean together with median wealth per adult.

Credit Suisse Global Wealth Databook's list of countries by wealth per grown-up USD


Credit Suisse publishes various statistics applicable 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 together with capital and technological advancements, which may earn new assets or give others worthless in the future.

During periods of equity market growth, the relative national and per capita wealth of countries where people are more proposed 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(a) as France and Italy, tends to rise instead. Countries with older populations, like Germany and Italy, would pull in higher relative wealth, if calculated per capita and not per adult.

Mean wealth is the amount obtained by dividing the statement aggregate wealth by the number of adults. Median wealth is the amount that divides the population into two make up groups: half the adults hit wealth above the median, and the other half below. In nations where wealth is highly concentrated in a small percentage of people, the mean can be much higher than the median e.g. the United States. To see this, click on the header of the median wealth column and include it in descending order.

* indicates "Wealth in COUNTRY" or "Economy of COUNTRY" links.

Gini: Higher Gini coefficients signify greater inequality in wealth distribution, with 0 being category up equality, whereas a value almost 100% can occur in a situation where everybody has zero wealth apart from a very small minority.

* indicates "Wealth in LOCATION" or "Economy of LOCATION" links.

For several countries, mention Suisse could only render rough estimates of intend wealth, with no information approximately the distribution of said wealth, citing poor data quality.

* indicates "Income in COUNTRY or TERRITORY" or "Economy of COUNTRY or TERRITORY" links.