List of countries by wealth per adult

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This is a list of countries of the world by wealth per adult, from UBS's Global Wealth Databook. 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	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 and 2024 publications. 2022 and 2023 data.
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	261,805	546,184	66.3
Austria	7,314,000	68,492	255,689	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	256,185	362,408	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	142,587	375,800	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	193,669	448,802	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	87,878	179,986	72.4
France	50,368,000	140,593	329,122	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	264,789	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	206,859	582,000	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	95,459	249,918	79.9
Israel	5,812,000	77,604	260,567	74.9
Italy	49,781,000	113,754	220,216	67.8
Jamaica	2,078,000	7,529	24,547	82.4
Japan	104,511,000	106,999	220,371	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	95,872	245,298	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	372,258	607,524	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	102,451	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	116,948	361,759	78.8
New Zealand	3,668,000	202,525	408,231	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	152,233	382,575	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	92,789	199,430	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	104,959	397,708	78.8
Slovakia	4,341,000	40,703	62,125	50.8
Slovenia	1,668,000	81,195	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	111,270	225,675	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	82,864	319,289	87.4
Switzerland	7,047,000	171,035	709,612	77.2
Syria	12,229,000	680	1,911	77.8
Taiwan	19,803,000	110,521	302,551	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	163,515	350,264	70.2
United States	253,681,000	112,157	564,862	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.

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

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

References

^ "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.
^ "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.
^ "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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