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Countries by median wealth ( US dollars) per adult. From 2021 publication of Credit Suisse. 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.
Affluence and economic standing within society are often expressed in terms of percentile ranking. The economic ranking is conducted either in terms of giving lower thresholds for a designated group (e.g. the top 5%, 10%, 15%, etc.) or in terms of the percentage of households/individuals with incomes above a certain threshold (e.g. above $75,000, $100,000, $200,000, etc.).
The Pareto distribution gives 52.8% owned by the upper 1%. According to the OECD in 2012 the top 0.6% of world population (consisting of adults with more than US$1 million in assets) or the 42 million richest people in the world held 39.3% of world wealth. The next 4.4% (311 million people) held 32.3% of world wealth.
With a $10,000 net worth, this group struggles financially. Any assets are often offset by liabilities. Homeownership and investments are rare in this percentile.
Here’s how all the other categories are broken down, including the associated net worth for each category: Super wealthy (99th percentile): $16.7 million Wealthy (95th percentile): $3.2 million
The Vanguard figures indicate that a saver’s gender as well as age also affects current balances. Men’s average and median balances were 43% higher than women’s balances in 2022, although ...
The average white family's median net worth was $285,000. Hispanic families had a median net worth of $61,600, and for black families, this figure was $44,900. Although black families had the lowest median net worth of all racial groups, they experienced the greatest percent increase in net worth from 2019 to 2022, at 60 percent.
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