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Human Capital Wealth per Capita, 2005

2005, as World Bank Group’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Human Capital Wealth per Capita, 2005 covers 148 countries. Switzerland is highest, at 686,564; Central African Republic is lowest, at 687. The middle country reads 20,057. Against 2004, 148 values changed (131 up, 17 down), the same countries are covered.

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Human Capital Wealth per Capita · Data for 2005

HighestSwitzerland

686,564

LowestCentral African Republic

687

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, 2005, 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, 2005: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe686,564
2IcelandISLNorthern Europe500,225
3NorwayNORNorthern Europe480,238
4United StatesUSANorthern America474,884
5LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe473,006
6DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe470,352
7AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand386,347
8NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe376,525
9IrelandIRLNorthern Europe355,210
10SwedenSWENorthern Europe333,982
11CanadaCANNorthern America330,712
12GermanyDEUWestern Europe299,868
13FranceFRAWestern Europe283,377
14United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe277,974
15New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand267,938
16BelgiumBELWestern Europe264,653
17AustriaAUTWestern Europe251,136
18IsraelISRWestern Asia248,310
19FinlandFINNorthern Europe242,571
20SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia215,849
21JapanJPNEastern Asia212,361
22United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia206,364
23SpainESPSouthern Europe156,499
24QatarQATWestern Asia152,872
25SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe151,597

02In 2005

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Switzerland686,564
  2. 2Iceland500,225
  3. 3Norway480,238
  4. 4United States474,884
  5. 5Luxembourg473,006

Lowest

  1. 148Central African Republic687
  2. 147Gambia1,784
  3. 146Burundi2,080
  4. 145Niger2,305
  5. 144Mozambique2,426

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 20,057. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032004 → 2005

Since 2004

What changed between 2004 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 148values changed, of 148 in both
  • 131 · 17rose · 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 2005.

  • 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 (2005). Human Capital Wealth per Capita, 2005 [data set], describing 2005. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/human-capital-per-capita/2005

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07Questions

Human Capital Wealth per Capita, 2005: questions and answers

Which country has the highest human capital wealth per person in Human Capital Wealth per Capita, 2005?

Switzerland, at 686,564, of the 148 countries in the file.

What year does Human Capital Wealth per Capita, 2005 describe?

2005.

How many countries does Human Capital Wealth per Capita, 2005 cover?

148.

Where can I download Human Capital Wealth per Capita, 2005?

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, 2005 the newest?

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

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