{"id":4247,"date":"2024-06-21T08:33:28","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T08:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.datapulse.de\/?p=4247"},"modified":"2026-09-05T16:19:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T16:19:51","slug":"which-countries-hold-most-wealth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.datapulse.de\/en\/which-countries-hold-most-wealth\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Countries Truly Hold the Most Wealth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"section padding-all-50 padding-all-s-15 bg-gradient-white-primary50\">\n<article id=\"infographicArticle-19651\" class=\"article article--infographic article--infographic19651 row padding-top-15\" aria-labelledby=\"infographicArticleTitle\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<footer class=\"article__meta\">\n<div class=\"article__topic showMobile text--wordBreak\">When ranking countries based on their economies and overall net wealth, the U.S. typically leads, followed by nations like China, Japan, and Germany. However, if we rank countries by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/topics\/2282\/private-wealth-management\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">per-capita average wealth<\/a> or median per-capita wealth, different countries emerge as the richest. Switzerland tops the list with the highest average per-capita wealth of around US$685,000 per adult. For median per-capita wealth, which considers the wealth of a person in the middle of the wealth spectrum, Iceland leads with around $413,000.<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row margin-bottom-15\">\n<div class=\"width70 padding-right-15\">\n<div id=\"infographicDescriptionLong\" class=\"article__contentText responsiveText responsiveText--underlinedLinks\">\n<p>Per-capita assets offer a more balanced view of a country\u2019s wealth, recognizing that smaller populations will naturally accumulate less total wealth. However, averages do not reflect wealth distribution within a society. Median wealth, in contrast, rises with more equal asset allocation. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/topics\/4507\/high-net-worth-individuals-in-europe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Iceland and other Scandinavian countries<\/a> are known for equitable wealth distribution, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubs.com\/global\/en\/family-office-uhnw\/reports\/global-wealth-report-2023.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Credit Suisse data<\/a> supports this. Denmark and Norway also rank high for per-capita median wealth, at 7th and 10th respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. is third in per-capita average wealth but drops to 15th for median wealth, indicating greater wealth disparity. Belgium shows the opposite trend, ranking 13th for average wealth but 3rd for median wealth, reflecting a more egalitarian wealth distribution.<\/p>\n<p>Examining the gap between mean and median wealth, the U.S. ranks 7th with an average wealth over five times higher than the median. This disparity is only surpassed by Brazil. Conversely, countries with smaller gaps, like Iceland, Luxembourg, and Belgium, top the median wealth list. Eastern European countries like Slovakia and Slovenia also show small gaps despite lower mean wealth. In poorer countries like Brazil, South Africa, Russia, and Nigeria, the wealth gap remains significant.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"width30 padding-left-15 hideMobile\">\n<div class=\"article__contentEditor\">\n<div class=\"box contactBox sidebar float-s--none\">\n<div class=\"contactBox\">\n<div class=\"cInfo\">\n<p class=\"contactWorkingHours\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"article__img margin-bottom-5n\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.statcdn.com\/Infographic\/images\/normal\/19651.jpeg\" alt=\"Infographic: Which Countries Are Really the Richest? | Statista\" width=\"560\" height=\"747\" data-open-modal=\"#infographicModal\" data-gtm=\"infographic__graphic\" aria-describedby=\"infographicDescriptionShort infographicDescriptionLong\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"article__contentGraphic panel-box panelBox--noPadding width100\">\n<div class=\"row flex\">\n<div class=\"flex_item width70 border-right-gray10-1 bg-white-smoke\">\n<div class=\"hideNoscript hidePrint\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"box-container\">\n<p><em>This story originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Statista<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.datapulse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.datapulse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.datapulse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.datapulse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.datapulse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4247"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.datapulse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10867,"href":"https:\/\/www.datapulse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4247\/revisions\/10867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.datapulse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.datapulse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.datapulse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.datapulse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}