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This is a list of countries of the world by wealth per adult, from UBS's ''Global Wealth Databook.'' 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. 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.
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This is a list of countries of the world by wealth per adult, from UBS's ''Global Wealth Databook.'' 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. 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. Wealth
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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
Human resources (HR) is the set of people who make up the workforce of an organization, business sector, industry, or economy. A narrower concept is human capital, the knowledge and skills which the individuals command. Similar terms include ' ...
, natural resources and capital and technological advancements, which may create new assets or render others worthless in the future.
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 median of a set of numbers is the value separating the higher half from the lower half of a Sample (statistics), data sample, a statistical population, population, or a probability distribution. For a data set, it may be thought of as the “ ...
(the amount that divides the population into two equal groups).
By region
Location links are "Economy of LOCATION" links.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. For some countries, Credit Suisse could not provide mean or median wealth numbers. 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).See also
* Wealth distribution by country * Wealth distribution in Europe * Financial and social rankings of sovereign states in Europe * High-net-worth individual * List of countries by financial assets per capita * List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita * List of countries by GNI (nominal) per capita * List of countries by income equality * List of countries by total wealth * Wealth inequality in the United StatesReferences
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