Key Takeaways
Luxembourg’s immense output per person ($141K GDP per capita) masks much of its non-resident workers.
Qatar’s oil windfall lifts GDP per capita ($72K) but that hasn’t spread into broader wealth, unlike Australia or Belgium.
English-speaking countries translate middling GDP per capita into high median wealth through property ownership and strong pension systems.
Generating national wealth and distributing it to households are distinctly different economic challenges.
What Each Metric Shows:
GDP Per Capita: Reflects total economic activity in a country in a single year, divided by the population.
GNI Per capita: Reflects how much income earned per resident, rather than just what is produced within the country’s borders.
UBS’s median wealth per adult: Reflects the median net worth of adults in the country (all assets and investments minus their debts) built over time instead of in a single year.
As UBS puts it: median wealth is simply the level at which half the population is better off and the other half is worse off.
It is possible that no one in a country actually possesses the listed median wealth figure.
Dataset
Rank GDP Per Capita USD 2025 GNI Per Capita USD 2024 Median Wealth Per Adult USD 2024
1 🇱🇺 Luxembourg $140.9K 🇧🇲 Bermuda $140.3K 🇱🇺 Luxembourg $395.3K
2 🇮🇪 Ireland $108.9K 🇳🇴 Norway $98.3K 🇦🇺 Australia $268.4K
3 🇨🇭 Switzerland $104.9K 🇨🇭 Switzerland $95.9K 🇧🇪 Belgium $253.5K
4 🇸🇬 Singapore $92.9K 🇱🇺 Luxembourg $91.5K 🇭🇰 Hong Kong $222.0K
5 🇮🇸 Iceland $90.3K 🇺🇸 U.S. $83.7K 🇩🇰 Denmark $216.1K
6 🇳🇴 Norway $89.7K 🇮🇸 Iceland $78.5K 🇳🇿 New Zealand $207.7K
7 🇺🇸 U.S. $89.1K 🇮🇪 Ireland $77.9K 🇨🇭 Switzerland $182.2K
8 🇲🇴 Macao $76.3K 🇶🇦 Qatar $76.7K 🇬🇧 UK $176.4K
9 🇩🇰 Denmark $75.0K 🇸🇬 Singapore $74.8K 🇨🇦 Canada $151.9K
10 🇶🇦 Qatar $71.7K 🇩🇰 Denmark $73.8K 🇫🇷 France $146.0K
11 🇳🇱 Netherlands $70.5K 🇳🇱 Netherlands $62.8K 🇳🇴 Norway $142.5K
12 🇦🇺 Australia $64.5K 🇦🇺 Australia $62.6K 🇳🇱 Netherlands $131.9K
13 🇸🇲 San Marino $59.6K 🇸🇪 Sweden $58.8K 🇪🇸 Spain $126.3K
14 🇦🇹 Austria $58.2K 🇭🇰 Hong Kong $57.1K 🇮🇹 Italy $124.5K
15 🇸🇪 Sweden $58.1K 🇩🇪 Germany $55.0K 🇺🇸 U.S. $124.0K
16 🇧🇪 Belgium $57.8K 🇧🇪 Belgium $54.8K 🇲🇹 Malta $120.9K
17 🇮🇱 Israel $57.8K 🇦🇹 Austria $54.2K 🇹🇼 Taiwan $114.9K
18 🇭🇰 Hong Kong $56.0K 🇨🇦 Canada $53.3K 🇸🇬 Singapore $114.0K
19 🇩🇪 Germany $55.9K 🇮🇱 Israel $52.9K 🇮🇪 Ireland $105.6K
20 🇬🇧 UK $54.9K 🇫🇮 Finland $51.7K 🇰🇷 South Korea $104.1K
21 🇫🇮 Finland $54.2K 🇦🇪 UAE $49.5K 🇯🇵 Japan $102.2K
22 🇨🇦 Canada $53.6K 🇦🇩 Andorra $48.9K 🇶🇦 Qatar $102.2K
23 🇦🇪 UAE $49.5K 🇬🇧 UK $48.6K 🇫🇮 Finland $94.8K
24 🇫🇷 France $46.8K 🇳🇿 New Zealand $46.3K 🇸🇪 Sweden $89.4K
25 🇳🇿 New Zealand $46.1K 🇫🇷 France $45.2K 🇮🇱 Israel $88.9K
Data sources
Figures rounded and in current USD for the year. Includes overseas territories and special administrative regions.
Credit: Voronoi.com
