List of countries by wealth per adult explained

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 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).

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).
Location	Adults	style=max-width:5em	Median wealth	Mean wealth	style=max-width:6em	Total Wealth (billion USD)	Gini %
	284,248,000	108,918	531,286	151,170	82.3
	589,291,000	28,611	177,179	104,410	80.9
	1,115,602,000	27,273	75,731	84,485	70.9
	5,363,519,000	8,654	84,718	454,385	88.3
	460,054,000	6,341	32,760	15,071	85.4
(excluding China and India)	1,275,041,000	5,176	61,154	77,974	88.1
	931,224,000	3,755	16,500	15,365	82.5
	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.
Location	Adults	style=max-width:3em	Median	Mean	Gini %
	2,200,000	17,280	34,839	68.6
	28,349,000	3,226	12,491	85.2
	15,394,000	1,716	5,418	81.2
	71,000	8,916	30,634	82.5
	31,540,000	4,354	13,323	80.0
	2,179,000	14,215	34,988	73.2
	82,000	18,428	61,622	81.9
	19,564,000	247,453	496,819	66.3
	7,314,000	68,492	245,225	76.1
	7,278,000	9,209	21,578	72.3
	287,000	10,885	72,971	88.9
	1,376,000	13,904	84,313	89.7
	110,099,000	3,842	9,796	75.0
	223,000	31,436	91,291	80.9
	7,312,000	18,466	34,835	67.1
	9,055,000	249,937	352,814	59.6
	259,000	3,928	14,966	83.4
	6,218,000	922	2,823	79.8
	7,395,000	4,913	14,222	80.6
	2,627,000	16,484	33,593	69.0
	1,427,000	3,591	16,567	88.5
	157,120,000	5,702	29,452	88.4
	318,000	6,983	39,908	89.0
	5,487,000	22,759	47,074	70.6
	10,144,000	563	1,713	79.6
	5,741,000	453	947	70.2
	10,532,000	2,185	6,036	77.5
	13,517,000	910	3,271	83.7
	30,474,000	137,633	369,577	72.3
	2,296,000	260	952	85.3
	7,581,000	483	1,297	77.2
	14,409,000	19,544	54,082	78.8
	1,115,602,000	27,273	75,731	70.9
	36,500,000	4,450	15,464	83.1
	471,000	1,256	5,285	86.2
	42,527,000	492	1,662	83.0
	2,868,000	380	1,465	85.4
	3,795,000	19,356	55,545	79.7
	3,270,000	34,837	70,461	69.6
	691,000	40,957	158,321	78.4
	8,519,000	23,502	90,393	78.5
	4,559,000	186,041	409,954	73.6
	645,000	1,285	3,853	78.4
	50,000	13,789	44,406	81.1
	11,782,000	7,610	21,650	80.3
	61,853,000	6,656	20,195	79.2
	4,304,000	15,049	47,422	81.7
	821,000	7,501	30,333	87.1
	1,802,000	1,431	3,688	76.0
	1,035,000	39,586	78,777	73.1
	61,191,000	2,124	4,905	72.5
	355,665,000	77,515	213,429
	574,000	5,950	17,998	78.5
	4,399,000	84,093	179,986	72.4
	50,368,000	133,137	312,235	70.3
	1,270,000	5,487	16,217	79.8
	1,189,000	735	2,986	86.0
	2,930,000	9,451	28,169	79.7
	68,024,000	66,735	256,179	77.2
	17,493,000	2,622	6,423	75.3
	8,421,000	53,501	105,724	68.1
	79,000	19,736	64,092	81.3
	6,533,000	2,060	6,638	81.6
	1,004,000	664	1,791	77.6
	509,000	6,896	18,587	76.8
	6,885,000	207	626	81.3
	6,338,000	202,406	551,194	73.7
	7,725,000	26,416	59,348	67.7
	259,000	413,193	498,290	64.5
	931,224,000	3,755	16,500	82.5
	186,544,000	4,819	17,457	78.0
	59,323,000	17,341	51,147	78.8
	3,695,000	90,741	247,080	79.9
	5,812,000	77,604	235,445	74.9
	49,781,000	107,315	221,370	67.8
	2,078,000	7,529	24,547	82.4
	104,511,000	103,681	216,078	65.0
	6,041,000	14,219	38,923	76.7
	12,373,000	25,225	58,205	77.4
	29,346,000	4,356	14,829	82.8
	42,859,000	92,719	230,760	67.9
	3,224,000	41,605	175,072	85.4
	4,040,000	3,398	8,542	74.8
	4,472,000	1,366	6,191	87.3
	1,441,000	46,899	97,583	80.4
	1,276,000	266	1,531	91.1
	2,661,000	1,977	5,886	80.1
	4,590,000	5,223	13,420	76.2
	2,115,000	32,385	69,541	70.6
	510,000	360,715	585,950	64.8
	14,747,000	658	2,257	82.2
	9,542,000	620	2,415	85.1
	23,130,000	8,523	29,314	83.1
	401,000	7,970	25,187	81.3
	9,235,000	863	2,658	80.2
	360,000	96,835	160,265	60.9
	2,518,000	1,125	3,013	76.4
	984,000	31,103	68,846	71.4
	87,983,000	18,920	55,274	79.3
	3,173,000	10,131	20,590	69.3
	2,097,000	3,003	7,578	74.2
	477,000	43,438	81,900	69.3
	25,026,000	3,896	13,862	82.3
	15,210,000	570	1,353	74.9
	36,861,000	3,636	7,670	68.0
	1,432,000	4,832	20,690	87.0
	19,193,000	1,685	4,672	77.6
	13,591,000	112,450	358,235	78.8
	3,668,000	193,065	388,761	69.9
	4,263,000	5,133	16,083	81.6
	10,550,000	599	1,436	73.9
	101,545,000	1,507	6,879	86.5
	4,267,000	143,887	385,338	76.9
	3,858,000	11,377	48,951	87.5
	129,747,000	2,076	5,226	74.4
	2,955,000	15,724	50,917	82.5
	5,197,000	1,828	8,606	88.6
	4,616,000	4,930	14,809	81.0
	23,041,000	7,555	22,514	80.1
	69,804,000	3,155	14,486	87.3
	30,181,000	20,263	52,741	68.4
	8,337,000	70,409	158,840	70.3
	2,465,000	90,262	164,992	58.6
	15,057,000	21,545	44,320	69.3
	110,998,000	8,595	39,514	86.9
	6,990,000	1,711	5,561	82.0
	109,000	4,150	11,929	77.7
	110,000	1,775	4,162	73.7
	24,925,000	20,701	90,975	86.7
	8,492,000	1,664	5,009	79.8
	5,451,000	16,462	34,080	69.9
	69,000	37,787	94,620	76.2
	4,158,000	329	749	73.3
	4,977,000	99,488	382,957	78.8
	4,341,000	40,703	62,125	50.8
	1,668,000	75,600	112,526	64.4
	367,000	3,429	11,660	82.0
	38,667,000	5,141	23,956	88.8
	37,855,000	107,507	224,209	68.3
	14,966,000	8,615	23,991	77.2
	141,000	12,454	42,301	82.7
	79,000	7,357	23,728	81.1
	392,000	1,444	7,885	89.2
	7,866,000	77,515	296,800	87.4
	7,047,000	167,353	685,226	77.2
	12,229,000	680	1,911	77.8
	19,803,000	108,247	273,788	69.8
	5,442,000	1,863	4,592	73.8
	29,686,000	2,005	4,869	74.7
	54,741,000	9,602	25,956	76.0
	4,336,000	488	1,520	81.5
	60,000	20,960	55,898	77.7
	1,042,000	20,960	55,939	75.9
	8,372,000	7,298	21,087	78.4
	59,247,000	5,488	17,578	80.2
	21,416,000	798	2,780	83.0
	8,138,000	31,761	152,556	86.9
	52,752,000	151,825	302,783	70.2
	253,681,000	107,739	551,347	83.0
	2,560,000	33,522	84,778	77.2
	170,000	5,276	16,347	79.9
	19,373,000	12,955	33,420	77.8
	69,792,000	5,309	14,569	78.8
	16,241,000	1,406	6,492	88.4
	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.

GDP per adult, in US dollars. (2022 publication).
Location	Region	GDP per adult
	Europe	52,474
	Latin America	26,510
	North America	189,744
	Asia-Pacific	4,696
	Latin America	76,114
	Africa	5,380
	Latin America	145,583
	Asia-Pacific	26,438
	Africa	5,296
	Latin America	12,849
	Latin America	22,146
	Latin America	13,374
	Latin America	25,840
	Asia-Pacific	29,500
	North America	83,833
	Latin America	33,588
	Latin America	8,198
	Latin America	4,643
	Asia-Pacific	3,029
	Asia-Pacific	931
	Europe	6,512
	Europe	252,879
	Asia-Pacific	52,442
	Europe	8,624
	Asia-Pacific	6,693
	Latin America	32,857
	Africa	22,557
	Asia-Pacific	5,726
	Europe	242,437
	Latin America	21,123
	Asia-Pacific	23,398
	Asia-Pacific	48,630
	Asia-Pacific	19,451
	Asia-Pacific	6,465
	Latin America	48,031
	Africa	38,036
	Europe	62,268
	Africa	280
	Africa	2,204
	Latin America	30,547
	Latin America	24,397
	Africa	2,802
	Africa	7,351
	Latin America	36,448
	Asia-Pacific	7,780
	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.

Mean net wealth per household, in US dollars PPP.
Location	Year	Wealth
	2018	941,162
	2017	862,378
	2019	684,500
	2017	602,377
	2018	528,578
	2017	524,422
	2018	514,162
	2019	478,240
	2017	447,607
	2017	435,100
	2018	370,341
	2018	366,534
	2019	362,340
	2017	345,228
	2017	309,637
	2017	304,317
	2017	298,639
	2016	295,020
	2014	294,735
	2018	268,358
	2017	255,303
	2019	248,599
	2016	233,221
	2016	230,032
	2017	223,286
	2017	188,627
	2017	182,039
	2017	171,425
	2017	152,144
	2017	150,296
	2019	149,864
	2018	148,323
	2017	135,787
	2017	121,741
	2017	103,017
	2017	99,761
	2017	95,092
	2017	91,755
	2017	87,431
	2017	79,245

External links

Notes and References

Web site: UBS Global Wealth Databook 2023. UBS. 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.
Web site: OECD Better Life Index Income. stats.oecd.org. 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.
Web site: Credit Suisse Global Wealth Databook 2022. Credit Suisse. September 23, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220923030157/https://www.credit-suisse.com/media/assets/corporate/docs/about-us/research/publications/global-wealth-databook-2022.pdf. live. 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).