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Human Capital Wealth per Capita, 1998

1998, as World Bank Group’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Human Capital Wealth per Capita, 1998 covers 148 countries. Switzerland is highest, at 683,879; Central African Republic is lowest, at 650. The middle country reads 17,357. Against 1997, 148 values changed (128 up, 20 down), the same countries are covered.

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Human Capital Wealth per Capita · Data for 1998

HighestSwitzerland

683,879

LowestCentral African Republic

650

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, 1998, 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, 1998: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe683,879
2NorwayNORNorthern Europe472,956
3United StatesUSANorthern America467,595
4IcelandISLNorthern Europe464,031
5DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe452,853
6LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe428,959
7NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe366,829
8AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand366,524
9SwedenSWENorthern Europe309,082
10IrelandIRLNorthern Europe299,484
11CanadaCANNorthern America298,972
12GermanyDEUWestern Europe296,577
13FranceFRAWestern Europe260,766
14United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe256,365
15New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand242,727
16AustriaAUTWestern Europe241,944
17IsraelISRWestern Asia240,852
18BelgiumBELWestern Europe238,102
19FinlandFINNorthern Europe215,048
20JapanJPNEastern Asia214,409
21SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia202,727
22United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia174,195
23SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe143,795
24MaltaMLTSouthern Europe136,259
25QatarQATWestern Asia131,568

02In 1998

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Switzerland683,879
  2. 2Norway472,956
  3. 3United States467,595
  4. 4Iceland464,031
  5. 5Denmark452,853

Lowest

  1. 148Central African Republic650
  2. 147Gambia1,664
  3. 146Burundi1,937
  4. 145Niger2,316
  5. 144Mozambique2,428

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 17,357. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031997 → 1998

Since 1997

What changed between 1997 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 148values changed, of 148 in both
  • 128 · 20rose · 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 1998.

  • 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 (1998). Human Capital Wealth per Capita, 1998 [data set], describing 1998. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/human-capital-per-capita/1998

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07Questions

Human Capital Wealth per Capita, 1998: questions and answers

Which country has the highest human capital wealth per person in Human Capital Wealth per Capita, 1998?

Switzerland, at 683,879, of the 148 countries in the file.

What year does Human Capital Wealth per Capita, 1998 describe?

1998.

How many countries does Human Capital Wealth per Capita, 1998 cover?

148.

Where can I download Human Capital Wealth per Capita, 1998?

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, 1998 the newest?

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

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