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Median and average wealth per adult in 36 countries — and why the ratio between those two numbers is the most interesting column in the table.

Published July 25, 2026 · data: UBS Global Wealth Databook (end-2022, USD per adult)

Median vs. mean, one more time

The median adult is the one in the middle: half the country holds more, half holds less. The mean is total wealth divided by the number of adults. In every country on Earth the mean is higher, because wealth concentrates at the top — but how much higher varies enormously, and that gap is a one-number portrait of a country's wealth inequality.

The United States has a mean of $551,000 per adult and a median of $108,000 — a ratio of 5.1. Belgium's mean is $353,000 and its median $250,000 — a ratio of 1.4. The typical Belgian adult holds more than twice what the typical American does, in a country with two-thirds the average wealth.

All 36 countries

Sorted by median — the "typical adult" ranking. The ratio column is mean ÷ median: higher means wealth is more concentrated at the top.

#	Country	Median / adult	Mean / adult	Mean÷median
1	🇧🇪 Belgium	$249,937	$352,814	1.4
2	🇦🇺 Australia	$247,453	$496,819	2.0
3	🇭🇰 Hong Kong	$202,406	$551,194	2.7
4	🇳🇿 New Zealand	$193,065	$388,761	2.0
5	🇩🇰 Denmark	$186,041	$409,954	2.2
6	🇨🇭 Switzerland	$167,353	$685,226	4.1
7	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	$151,825	$302,783	2.0
8	🇳🇴 Norway	$143,887	$385,338	2.7
9	🇨🇦 Canada	$137,633	$369,577	2.7
10	🇫🇷 France	$133,137	$312,235	2.3
11	🇳🇱 Netherlands	$112,450	$358,235	3.2
12	🇹🇼 Taiwan	$108,247	$273,788	2.5
13	🇺🇸 United States	$107,739	$551,347	5.1
14	🇪🇸 Spain	$107,507	$224,209	2.1
15	🇮🇹 Italy	$107,315	$221,370	2.1
16	🇯🇵 Japan	$103,681	$216,078	2.1
17	🇸🇬 Singapore	$99,488	$382,957	3.8
18	🇰🇷 South Korea	$92,719	$230,760	2.5
19	🇸🇪 Sweden	$77,515	$296,800	3.8
20	🇵🇹 Portugal	$70,409	$158,840	2.3
21	🇩🇪 Germany	$66,735	$256,179	3.8
22	🇨🇳 China	$27,273	$75,731	2.8
23	🇨🇿 Czechia	$23,502	$90,393	3.8
24	🇵🇱 Poland	$20,263	$52,741	2.6
25	🇲🇽 Mexico	$18,920	$55,274	2.9
26	🇹🇭 Thailand	$9,602	$25,956	2.7
27	🇪🇬 Egypt	$6,656	$20,195	3.0
28	🇧🇷 Brazil	$5,702	$29,452	5.2
29	🇹🇷 Türkiye	$5,488	$17,578	3.2
30	🇻🇳 Vietnam	$5,309	$14,569	2.7
31	🇿🇦 South Africa	$5,141	$23,956	4.7
32	🇮🇩 Indonesia	$4,819	$17,457	3.6
33	🇦🇷 Argentina	$4,354	$13,323	3.1
34	🇮🇳 India	$3,755	$16,500	4.4
35	🇵🇭 Philippines	$3,155	$14,486	4.6
36	🇳🇬 Nigeria	$1,507	$6,879	4.6

What the table shows

The median top ten is not the mean top ten. Belgium, Australia, and New Zealand lead on medians largely because of broad housing wealth and (in Australia's case) compulsory retirement saving that reaches nearly every worker. Switzerland and the US — giants by mean — fall down the median ranking because their wealth is far more concentrated.
High-ratio countries cluster in two groups. Emerging economies (Brazil 5.2, India 4.4, Philippines and Nigeria 4.6) where formal wealth is thin outside the top — and the United States at 5.1, the only rich country in that band.
Low ratios are policy fingerprints. Belgium (1.4), the UK and Australia (2.0) combine high home ownership, universal pensions, and inheritance patterns that spread wealth wider.
Currency matters. These are USD conversions at end-2022 exchange rates. Japan's figures, for instance, would read differently at 2024's weaker yen. Rankings near each other are effectively ties.

Where do you land?

The WorthParty calculator places your number within any of these 36 countries — and among all 5.5 billion adults worldwide — using a log-normal fit to each country's published median and mean (the method, and its limits, are documented on the methodology page). Everything runs in your browser; nothing you type is transmitted.

Sources

UBS Global Wealth Report — the databook underlying these figures
List of countries by wealth per adult — open tabulation of the same databook (end-2022)
WorthParty methodology

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