I found an interesting list of countries ranked by median wealth by adult. It is based on a 2016 study by Credit Suisse. It's surprising to see that Americans, Germans and Swedes are poorer in average than Spaniards, Taiwanese or South Koreans. I didn't expect Belgians to rank so high. Median wealth favours countries with low income inequality and is therefore also an indicator of how wealthy a population is in average.
The same study also list the number of millionaires in USD by country in 2016 (page 42). I have calculated the percentages for each country.
Many countries are missing from the statistics including Iceland, Finland, Luxembourg, New Zealand and Gulf states.
Country | Total Wealth (in billions USD) | Wealth per adult (USD) | Median wealth per adult (USD) |
---|---|---|---|
| 3,478 | 561,854 | 244,002 |
6,428 | 375,573 | 162,815 | |
2,293 | 270,613 | 154,815 | |
24,070 | 230,946 | 120,493 | |
14,150 | 288,808 | 107,865 | |
9,973 | 202,288 | 104,105 | |
11,891 | 244,365 | 99,923 | |
7,564 | 270,179 | 96,664 | |
2,412 | 184,378 | 81,118 | |
6,278 | 159,914 | 64,636 | |
3,199 | 172,847 | 63,134 | |
4,396 | 116,320 | 56,500 | |
84,784 | 344,692 | 44,977 | |
12,419 | 185,175 | 42,833 | |
1,683 | 227,295 | 39,692 | |
1,621 | 21,125 | 6,066 | |
23,393 | 22,864 | 4,885 | |
2,537 | 18,059 | 3,811 | |
World | 255,708 | 52,819 | 2,222 |
1,769 | 10,772 | 1,966 | |
3,099 | 3,835 | 608 |
The same study also list the number of millionaires in USD by country in 2016 (page 42). I have calculated the percentages for each country.
- Switzerland : 8.5%
- Australia : 4.4%
- Denmark : 4.2%
- United States : 4.19%
- Norway : 3.7%
- United Kingdom : 3.3%
- Canada : 3.0%
- Sweden : 2.9%
- Belgium : 2.7%
- Singapore : 2.6%
- Austria : 2.5%
- Japan : 2.2%
- Germany : 1.9%
- Italy : 1,85%
- Netherlands 1.7%
- Taiwan : 1.5%
- South Korea : 1.3%
- Spain : 0.8%
- China : 0.1%
- South Africa : 0.1%
Many countries are missing from the statistics including Iceland, Finland, Luxembourg, New Zealand and Gulf states.