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Comprehensive Wealth per Capita, 2009

2009, as World Bank Group’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Comprehensive Wealth per Capita, 2009 covers 149 countries. Switzerland is highest, at 1,167,608; Gambia is lowest, at 3,482. The middle country reads 38,010. Against 2008, 149 values changed (71 up, 78 down), the same countries are covered.

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Comprehensive Wealth per Capita · Data for 2009

HighestSwitzerland

1,167,608

LowestGambia

3,482

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, 2009, 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 149 countries · select a heading to sort

Comprehensive Wealth per Capita, 2009: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe1,167,608
2NorwayNORNorthern Europe984,258
3QatarQATWestern Asia846,225
4LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe746,978
5AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand738,932
6United StatesUSANorthern America700,675
7DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe683,149
8SwedenSWENorthern Europe613,207
9IcelandISLNorthern Europe584,349
10NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe564,888
11United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia525,477
12New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand517,642
13GermanyDEUWestern Europe514,320
14CanadaCANNorthern America507,070
15JapanJPNEastern Asia499,011
16FinlandFINNorthern Europe463,508
17FranceFRAWestern Europe431,988
18AustriaAUTWestern Europe427,343
19SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia424,226
20BelgiumBELWestern Europe410,785
21IsraelISRWestern Asia362,773
22United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe362,445
23IrelandIRLNorthern Europe358,129
24KuwaitKWTWestern Asia266,355
25ItalyITASouthern Europe226,544

02In 2009

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Switzerland1,167,608
  2. 2Norway984,258
  3. 3Qatar846,225
  4. 4Luxembourg746,978
  5. 5Australia738,932

Lowest

  1. 149Gambia3,482
  2. 148Central African Republic6,000
  3. 147Burundi6,095
  4. 146Madagascar7,238
  5. 145Mozambique7,630

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 38,010. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032008 → 2009

Since 2008

What changed between 2008 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 149values changed, of 149 in both
  • 71 · 78rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

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 2009.

  • 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 149 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 (2009). Comprehensive Wealth per Capita, 2009 [data set], describing 2009. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/comprehensive-wealth-per-capita/2009

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07Questions

Comprehensive Wealth per Capita, 2009: questions and answers

Which country has the highest comprehensive wealth per person in Comprehensive Wealth per Capita, 2009?

Switzerland, at 1,167,608, of the 149 countries in the file.

What year does Comprehensive Wealth per Capita, 2009 describe?

2009.

How many countries does Comprehensive Wealth per Capita, 2009 cover?

149.

Where can I download Comprehensive Wealth per Capita, 2009?

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, 2009 the newest?

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

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