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Comprehensive Wealth per Capita, 1997

1997, as World Bank Group’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Comprehensive Wealth per Capita, 1997 covers 141 countries. Qatar is highest, at 1,011,984; Tajikistan is lowest, at 483. The middle country reads 36,509. Against 1996, 139 values changed (105 up, 34 down), 2 countries joined.

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Comprehensive Wealth per Capita · Data for 1997

HighestQatar

1,011,984

LowestTajikistan

483

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end. A higher value is the better result.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Comprehensive Wealth per Capita, 1997, as published. World Bank Group ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 141 countries · select a heading to sort

Comprehensive Wealth per Capita, 1997: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1QatarQATWestern Asia1,011,984
2SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe980,230
3United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia817,068
4IcelandISLNorthern Europe815,831
5NorwayNORNorthern Europe784,848
6LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe774,320
7United StatesUSANorthern America644,370
8AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand641,141
9DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe604,410
10SwedenSWENorthern Europe558,334
11NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe480,893
12New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand467,024
13JapanJPNEastern Asia458,421
14GermanyDEUWestern Europe440,726
15CanadaCANNorthern America397,322
16FranceFRAWestern Europe388,057
17AustriaAUTWestern Europe364,010
18BelgiumBELWestern Europe357,425
19United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe355,565
20FinlandFINNorthern Europe352,319
21IrelandIRLNorthern Europe327,773
22IsraelISRWestern Asia306,269
23SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia284,402
24ItalyITASouthern Europe197,585
25SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe180,419

02In 1997

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Qatar1,011,984
  2. 2Switzerland980,230
  3. 3United Arab Emirates817,068
  4. 4Iceland815,831
  5. 5Norway784,848

Lowest

  1. 141Tajikistan483
  2. 140Gambia2,985
  3. 139Zambia4,941
  4. 138Mozambique5,450
  5. 137Burundi6,823

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 36,509. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031996 → 1997

Since 1996

What changed between 1996 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +2 / −0countries joined / left
  • 139values changed, of 139 in both
  • 105 · 34rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Tajikistan+ Zambia

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

The site’s method

  • One year of the 2024 release

    Every year in this series comes from World Bank Group’s 2024 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1997.

  • The position is ours

    World Bank Group publishes values only. The order here sorts the published values, and the page says so wherever it prints one.

  • Which end is better

    A higher value is the better result.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 141 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 4.0. Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.

Cite this edition

World Bank Group (1997). Comprehensive Wealth per Capita, 1997 [data set], describing 1997. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/comprehensive-wealth-per-capita/1997

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07Questions

Comprehensive Wealth per Capita, 1997: questions and answers

Which country has the highest comprehensive wealth per person in Comprehensive Wealth per Capita, 1997?

Qatar, at 1,011,984, of the 141 countries in the file.

What year does Comprehensive Wealth per Capita, 1997 describe?

1997.

How many countries does Comprehensive Wealth per Capita, 1997 cover?

141.

Where can I download Comprehensive Wealth per Capita, 1997?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Comprehensive Wealth per Capita, 1997 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Comprehensive Wealth per Capita, 2020.

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