Credit Suisse' annual global wealth report revealed that the number of dollar millionaires across the world grew to nearly 47 million last year and they now own close to half the world's wealth.
The United States still leads the world in total number of millionaires. The US added 675,000 new millionaires over the past year, bringing its total to a staggering 18.6 million.
In France the number is far fewer, albeit the number of millionaires in the country has jumped by 93 percent between 2010 and 2019.
France now has just over 2 million millionaires.
The ranking for wealth per adult reveals that Switzerland comes out top ($564,650) followed by Hong Kong ($489, 260) and the United States ($432, 370).
But a different ranking that looks at median wealth per adult tells a different story.
Credit Suisse notes: “The ranking by median wealth per adult favours places with lower levels of wealth inequality and produces a slightly different table. Australia (USD181,360) overtakes Hong Kong SAR (USD 146,890) to gain second place, but remains below Switzerland (USD 227,890).
“New Zealand, Canada, and the United Kingdom retain similar positions in the top ten, but lower-than-average inequality raises Belgium (USD 117,090) to fourth place, Japan (USD 110,410) to sixth, Ireland (USD 104,840) to eighth, and France (USD 101,940) to ninth.”
Well below France comes the United States where the median wealth for adults is $65,900 and Germany ($35 313).
Median wealth is the amount that divides the wealth distribution into two equal groups: half the adults have wealth above the median, and the other half below.
France has lower levels of wealth inequality to the United States but the main reason given for the difference in median wealth between the US and France is the huge levels debt incurred by Americans.
While in Germany there is far lower levels of home ownership compared to France which explains why the median level of wealth is lover across the Rhine river.
Credit Suisse estimates that one percent of the richest Germans own 30 percent of the country's total wealth, compared to France and Italy where the richest one percent own 22 percent of the country's wealth.
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“More wealthy”??
I believe the proper former is “wealthier,” no?
Who is writing this stuff in here?
As well as consistent typos like “lover” instead of “lower”. I wish they would at least correct them when pointed out, but they don’t do that either.