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Human Capital Wealth per Capita, 2002

2002, as World Bank Group’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Human Capital Wealth per Capita, 2002 covers 148 countries. Switzerland is highest, at 694,288; Central African Republic is lowest, at 675. The middle country reads 19,219. Against 2001, 148 values changed (124 up, 24 down), the same countries are covered.

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Human Capital Wealth per Capita · Data for 2002

HighestSwitzerland

694,288

LowestCentral African Republic

675

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, 2002, 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, 2002: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe694,288
2IcelandISLNorthern Europe487,833
3NorwayNORNorthern Europe481,925
4United StatesUSANorthern America467,230
5DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe465,900
6LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe465,022
7NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe392,975
8AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand375,850
9IrelandIRLNorthern Europe334,138
10SwedenSWENorthern Europe332,791
11CanadaCANNorthern America318,723
12GermanyDEUWestern Europe299,857
13FranceFRAWestern Europe276,073
14United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe268,704
15New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand256,803
16BelgiumBELWestern Europe252,867
17AustriaAUTWestern Europe249,868
18IsraelISRWestern Asia236,159
19FinlandFINNorthern Europe233,482
20SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia210,398
21JapanJPNEastern Asia209,953
22United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia193,639
23SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe146,019
24QatarQATWestern Asia142,703
25MaltaMLTSouthern Europe142,143

02In 2002

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Switzerland694,288
  2. 2Iceland487,833
  3. 3Norway481,925
  4. 4United States467,230
  5. 5Denmark465,900

Lowest

  1. 148Central African Republic675
  2. 147Gambia1,725
  3. 146Burundi2,015
  4. 145Niger2,331
  5. 144Mozambique2,420

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 19,219. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032001 → 2002

Since 2001

What changed between 2001 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 148values changed, of 148 in both
  • 124 · 24rose · 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 2002.

  • 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 (2002). Human Capital Wealth per Capita, 2002 [data set], describing 2002. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/human-capital-per-capita/2002

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07Questions

Human Capital Wealth per Capita, 2002: questions and answers

Which country has the highest human capital wealth per person in Human Capital Wealth per Capita, 2002?

Switzerland, at 694,288, of the 148 countries in the file.

What year does Human Capital Wealth per Capita, 2002 describe?

2002.

How many countries does Human Capital Wealth per Capita, 2002 cover?

148.

Where can I download Human Capital Wealth per Capita, 2002?

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, 2002 the newest?

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

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