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Human Capital Wealth per Capita, 1997

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

Human Capital Wealth per Capita, 1997 covers 148 countries. Switzerland is highest, at 673,192; Central African Republic is lowest, at 642. The middle country reads 17,010. Against 1996, 148 values changed (127 up, 21 down), the same countries are covered.

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Human Capital Wealth per Capita · Data for 1997

HighestSwitzerland

673,192

LowestCentral African Republic

642

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 Human Capital 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 148 countries · select a heading to sort

Human Capital Wealth per Capita, 1997: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe673,192
2United StatesUSANorthern America463,403
3NorwayNORNorthern Europe460,669
4DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe451,409
5IcelandISLNorthern Europe447,834
6LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe427,395
7AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand362,550
8NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe357,273
9SwedenSWENorthern Europe305,788
10GermanyDEUWestern Europe294,830
11CanadaCANNorthern America292,686
12IrelandIRLNorthern Europe279,675
13FranceFRAWestern Europe257,888
14United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe251,616
15New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand246,770
16IsraelISRWestern Asia244,760
17AustriaAUTWestern Europe239,688
18BelgiumBELWestern Europe236,023
19JapanJPNEastern Asia215,829
20FinlandFINNorthern Europe208,734
21SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia199,439
22United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia168,916
23SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe140,252
24MaltaMLTSouthern Europe134,386
25QatarQATWestern Asia129,743

02In 1997

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Switzerland673,192
  2. 2United States463,403
  3. 3Norway460,669
  4. 4Denmark451,409
  5. 5Iceland447,834

Lowest

  1. 148Central African Republic642
  2. 147Gambia1,648
  3. 146Burundi1,925
  4. 145Niger2,306
  5. 144Mozambique2,434

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 17,010. “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.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 148values changed, of 148 in both
  • 127 · 21rose · 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 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 148 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). Human Capital Wealth per Capita, 1997 [data set], describing 1997. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/human-capital-per-capita/1997

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07Questions

Human Capital Wealth per Capita, 1997: questions and answers

Which country has the highest human capital wealth per person in Human Capital Wealth per Capita, 1997?

Switzerland, at 673,192, of the 148 countries in the file.

What year does Human Capital Wealth per Capita, 1997 describe?

1997.

How many countries does Human Capital Wealth per Capita, 1997 cover?

148.

Where can I download Human Capital 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 Human Capital Wealth per Capita, 1997 the newest?

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

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