National net wealth, also known as national net worth, is the total sum of the value of a country's assets minus its liabilities. It is the total value of net wealth possessed by the residents of a state at a set point in time. Figures in this article only cover household wealth, and exclude government wealth, which may be substantial, as in China, or negative, as in the UK or US, and so do not show total wealth.

National net wealth is an important indicator of a nation's ability to take on debt and sustain spending and is influenced not only by real estate prices, equity market prices, exchange rates, liabilities and incidence in a country of the population, but also by human resources, natural resources, and capital and technological advancements, which may create new assets or render others worthless in the future.

The most significant component by far among most developed nations is commonly reported as household net wealth or worth, and reflects infrastructure investment. National wealth can fluctuate, as evidenced in the United States after the Great Recession and subsequent economic recovery. During periods of strong 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. On the other hand, when equity markets are depressed, the relative wealth of countries where people invest more in real estate and bonds, such as France and Italy, tends to rise.

Total household wealth by country * indicates "Wealth in country or territory" or "Economy of country or territory" links.

+ List by UBS and Credit Suisse pertaining to total wealth of countries in 2022Country (or area) Region Total wealth(USD bn) % of world Wealth to GDPratio Population Wealth per capita(USD) 7,995,707,304 57,150 Northern America Americas 5.493 333,287,557 419,726 East Asia Europe Asia 4.470 1,412,175,000 59,827 Asia 4.918 124,500,000 181,382 South Asia Europe 3.797 84,358,845 206,568 Europe 5.071 68,042,591 234,984 Europe 5.069 67,508,936 236,593 Asia 5.414 1,417,173,173 10,842 Americas Americas 4.937 38,929,902 289,313 Oceania Europe 5.669 58,983,122 186,831 West Asia Asia 51,628,117 191,559 Oceania 5.157 25,978,935 374,083 Southeast Asia Europe 5.577 47,475,420 178,770 Africa Asia 23,923,276 226,641 Europe 4.104 17,533,044 277,710 Americas 2.129 127,504,125 38,152 Europe 5.514 8,740,472 552,313 Americas 1.921 215,313,498 21,505 Europe 1.795 144,713,314 30,310 Asia 8.384 7,335,200 476,377 Asia 1.629 275,501,339 11,820 Europe 4.116 11,655,000 274,000 Asia 1.707 88,550,000 34,300 Europe 3.860 10,520,520 222,171 Asia 1.962 36,400,000 62,305 Asia 3.712 5,637,000 338,000 Europe 3.630 5,882,000 318,000 Europe 4.381 8,940,432 200,655 Europe 2.717 5,425,270 303,044 Europe 2.972 37,766,327 42,161 Oceania 5.181 5,124,110 278,406 Asia 2.134 71,697,336 19,829 Asia 2.739 9,593,413 142,595 Europe 4.598 10,271,492 128,959 Africa 2.900 104,258,327 11,979 Asia 2.189 9,441,129 131,550 Asia 2.304 171,186,372 7,249 Asia 1.780 85,279,553 12,209 Asia 3.043 98,186,698 10,358 Asia 2.501 115,559,384 8,746 Africa 2.191 60,756,135 15,250 Europe 2.447 5,123,987 178,235 Europe 4.131 10,445,321 85,212 Central Asia Europe 2.952 5,548,321 142,901 Americas 2.002 19,678,432 39,512 Europe 2.366 10,701,234 71,934 Asia 5,378,392 136,334 Asia 1.761 19,234,567 37,501 Africa 1.475 218,987,654 3,190 Europe 2.003 36,421,908 18,745 Asia 1.671 240,112,345 2,825 Asia 1.870 33,456,789 20,310 Europe 2.671 19,038,764 35,032 Africa 1.473 45,998,112 13,066 Americas 1.737 52,215,743 10,802 Asia 3.008 4,380,326 128,770 Americas 1.662 34,050,342 15,243 Europe 2.117 9,603,021 47,702 Africa 2.607 54,985,698 7,909 Americas 0.698 46,044,703 9,123 Asia 1.865 2,760,385 147,437 Asia 677,300 550,000 Asia 3.535 22,181,000 16,186 Africa 2.548 37,108,492 9,353 Asia 5,296,814 65,139 Africa 1.699 123,438,901 2,430 Europe 2.321 660,752 452,818 Asia 4.334 54,321,009 5,212 Europe 2.731 5,423,118 49,784 Europe 2.086 6,834,291 37,749 Europe 1.950 9,157,332 27,858 Americas 1.908 18,423,119 13,841 Asia 3.281 11,285,409 20,823 Europe 3.440 3,875,643 59,357 Americas 1.356 3,422,794 63,422 Americas 1.926 5,180,829 40,711 Asia 2.044 4,576,298 41,293 Europe 3.784 2,119,409 88,721 Europe 3.303 6,664,449 27,922 Africa 2.887 12,458,223 14,210 Asia 38,222,276 4,478 Asia 1.727 10,336,578 15,182 Americas 1.617 4,404,108 34,056 Europe 2.105 2,861,203 51,376 Africa 1.298 65,498,112 2,215 Europe 2.727 1,881,231 74,976 Europe 3.928 387,758 332,711 Asia 2.748 1,472,204 78,832 Africa 1.628 33,475,870 3,346 Asia 4.289 1,251,488 87,091 Americas 1.907 12,224,110 8,589 Asia 2.219 30,192,689 2,981 Europe 3.868 3,234,873 26,905 Europe 1.555 1,365,884 60,042 Asia 1.398 6,377,645 12,231 Europe 4.581 2,761,785 27,868 Africa 1.819 15,418,674 4,605 Africa 102,972,000 689 Americas 2.955 6,948,393 9,930 Africa 3.417 1,273,468 53,388 Americas 1.337 7,132,530 9,536 Europe 3.426 2,510,121 25,889 Asia 1.956 17,764,289 3,603 Europe 3.336 542,105 107,012 Africa 0.552 36,739,284 1,496 Americas 1.689 1,534,937 33,245 Africa 0.853 47,249,585 1,036 Asia 3.072 2,780,469 16,905 Asia 2.117 3,688,647 12,472 Africa 0.846 28,798,436 1,598 Americas 2.552 2,827,377 15,910 Africa 1.298 6,812,341 6,462 Oceania 1.208 10,275,546 4,184 Africa 1.400 17,196,301 2,384 Asia 41,128,765 997 Europe 4.691 627,082 57,423 Asia 1.486 7,548,932 4,636 Africa 1.941 2,567,012 12,073 Africa 1.488 29,178,914 1,028 Africa 1.620 13,768,431 2,034 Africa 1.14 2,588,432 10,430 Africa 0.858 20,084,521 1,344 Asia 2.218 10,092,114 2,476 Asia 2.484 6,951,283 3,595 Africa 1.007 2,458,673 9,355 Africa 0.926 22,593,871 973 Africa 0.360 48,109,347 457 Africa 1.565 20,541,789 1,071 Africa 1.179 1,696,428 11,791 Asia 21,324,187 844 Africa 1.139 13,859,102 1,299 Americas 2.125 407,381 39,313 Africa 0.813 12,998,564 1,231 Africa 0.788 33,897,452 472 Americas 2.688 281,895 56,790 Asia 0.857 3,457,987 4,338 Africa 0.834 13,754,321 2,976 Africa 1.628 5,214,889 2,686 Africa 1.637 26,912,003 483 Asia 2.537 452,981 26,508 Oceania 0.707 924,871 12,975 Africa 1.241 17,482,109 572 Asia 521,938 19,158 Africa 6,102,814 984 Africa 0.789 4,823,119 1,243 Americas 0.966 816,209 7,352 Africa 0.911 8,849,204 678 Africa 0.774 3,684,118 1,357 Americas 0.349 11,585,874 432 Africa 2.348 107,118 37,329 Africa 0.996 12,887,004 310 Africa 0.728 8,420,641 475 Asia 1.487 1,364,931 2,933 Americas 1.064 419,198 7,154 Africa 1.095 2,759,452 1,087 Africa 0.901 5,833,172 343 Africa 1.716 907,321 2,204 Africa 0.602 1,120,456 1,786 Africa 1.493 2,089,315 957 Africa 0.842 2,175,418 919 Americas 0.541 618,040 3,238 Africa 231,856 8,626

Countries ranking through time

The following table ranks the 30 countries with the largest national net wealth from 2000 to 2020, according to UBS and Credit Suisse S.A. (August 2023).

+ The 30 largest countries by net national wealth (in billions USD)CountryPeakHistorical dataPeak to2000 ratio Value Year20202015201020052000 465,666 2021422,718297,743252,084182,218117,8253.952 145,793 2021126,30087,95964,66162,63443,4233.358 85,947 202173,86646,53525,4938,5223,70423.204 29,718 201126,74421,51928,64019,47619,4041.532 18,412 202118,05312,00911,9349,0736,1602.989 16,741 202115,45413,97811,19910,9496,5652.550 16,326 202016,32611,59413,5269,6794,7043.471 15,365 202212,6888,9486,8103,2661,5539.894 12,820 200712,17610,50611,5459,4575,5222.322 12,501 202110,5866,9306,8324,3632,6134.784 10,734 20219,2686,4246,6623,4801,5007.156 10,296 20078,7596,1778,7016,9052,4974.123 9,946 20219,6256,1284,7443,5081,7215.779 5,776 20214,9203,5142,6281,8831,4374.019 5,447 20205,4473,2553,3232,5241,5913.424 4,893 20214,6733,4282,8921,7371,2733.844 4,863 20223,7672,6592,2611,5638285.873 4,628 20223,0922,3983,1281,0646467.164 4,386 20223,1771,8242,165869–– 3,544 20203,5442,5312,5651,8261,1103.193 3,495 20213,4462,5481,5889768714.013 3,256 20223,0871,8991,3597043648.945 3,034 20221,443––––– 2,865 20212,7421,7831,6289665225.489 2,268 20221,9051,437–6204155.465 1,998 20211,7931,0551,0227994514.430 1,970 20131,5091,7771,7181,0345253.752 1,906 20221,6371,075––3245.883 1,855 20201,8551,4081,4601,0677192.580 1,658 20211,436––––– 1,644 2022––988–3364.893––1,465993936622–––––1,035–––––––1,000926–––––––1,2521,020618–––––958731422––––––696336–

Shares of global wealth The following table shows the share of global wealth held by the ten wealthiest countries, measured by net national wealth, for the given years. The share of a country's global wealth that is 5% or greater in a given year is in bold.

+ Shares of global wealth (%) of the ten wealthiest countries by net national wealth for 2000–22 Year Aggregateshare ofthe top 10 2000 — 2.2% 3.1% 4.0% 5.2% — 4.7% 16.5% 1.5% 2.1% 5.6% 36.9% 81.8% 2001 — 2.1% 3.6% 4.0% 5.2% — 4.6% 14.1% 1.5% 2.3% 5.6% 38.8% 81.8% 2002 — 2.0% 3.7% 4.6% 5.5% — 5.3% 13.8% 1.7% 2.9% 6.1% 35.1% 80.7% 2003 1.9% 2.2% 3.7% 5.2% 5.8% — 5.7% 12.9% — 3.5% 6.2% 32.8% 79.9% 2004 1.9% 2.2% 3.9% 5.6% 5.7% — 5.7% 11.5% — 3.9% 6.5% 32.5% 79.4% 2005 — 2.4% 4.7% 5.3% 5.0% — 5.2% 10.7% 1.9% 3.8% 6.0% 34.4% 79.4% 2006 2.0% 2.3% 5.0% 5.8% 5.0% — 5.5% 9.5% — 4.2% 6.4% 32.3% 78.0% 2007 2.3% 2.6% 6.0% 6.1% 5.3% — 5.5% 8.6% — 4.4% 6.2% 29.3% 76.3% 2008 — 2.2% 8.2% 6.0% 5.4% 2.2% 5.6% 11.2% — 4.4% 4.4% 27.5% 77.1% 2009 2.4% 2.6% 8.6% 5.7% 5.3% — 5.4% 10.2% — 4.1% 4.8% 26.3% 75.4%2010—2.7%10.1%5.4%4.7%2.7%4.6%11.4%—3.5%4.4%25.7%75.2%2011—2.7%11.9%5.1%4.6%2.5%4.3%11.4%—3.4%4.5%25.2%75.6%2012—2.8%12.5%4.8%4.6%2.7%4.2%9.8%—2.9%4.4%25.6%74.3%2013—2.7%13.8%4.8%4.7%2.6%4.1%7.8%—2.7%4.5%26.8%74.5%20142.2%2.6%15.1%4.2%4.3%2.8%3.9%7.1%——4.7%28.6%75.5%20152.2%2.3%15.6%3.9%4.0%3.0%3.5%7.2%——4.7%29.5%75.9%20162.2%2.5%16.7%3.8%3.9%3.2%3.3%7.2%——4.0%29.9%76.7%20172.2%2.4%17.4%3.9%4.1%3.3%3.3%6.7%——4.1%28.4%75.8%2018—2.2%18.4%3.8%4.1%3.4%3.0%6.7%2.2%—3.7%28.5%76.0%2019—2.3%18.1%3.6%4.0%3.4%2.8%6.5%2.1%—3.6%29.6%76.0%2020—2.5%17.5%3.9%4.3%3.0%2.9%6.3%2.3%—3.7%29.9%76.3%20212.3%2.7%18.5%3.5%4.0%3.2%2.5%5.4%——3.6%31.3%77.0%2022—2.5%18.6%3.5%3.8%3.4%2.4%5.0%2.2%—3.5%30.8%75.7%2023%%%%%%%%%%%%%2024%%%%%%%%%%%%%2025%%%%%%%%%%%%%

See also

List of countries by financial assets List of countries by wealth per adult G7 Distribution of wealth Affluence in the United States

References