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Human Capital Wealth per Capita, 2020

2020, as World Bank Group’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Human Capital Wealth per Capita, 2020 covers 151 countries. Switzerland is highest, at 735,422; Central African Republic is lowest, at 700. The middle country reads 25,230. Against 2019, 151 values changed (133 up, 18 down), the same countries are covered.

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Human Capital Wealth per Capita · Data for 2020

HighestSwitzerland

735,422

LowestCentral African Republic

700

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, 2020, 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 151 countries · select a heading to sort

Human Capital Wealth per Capita, 2020: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe735,422
2LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe646,928
3IcelandISLNorthern Europe586,976
4United StatesUSANorthern America503,350
5NorwayNORNorthern Europe500,361
6DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe485,658
7NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe432,823
8SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia431,983
9AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand407,797
10IrelandIRLNorthern Europe371,230
11SwedenSWENorthern Europe368,853
12GermanyDEUWestern Europe360,923
13CanadaCANNorthern America351,375
14IsraelISRWestern Asia316,068
15FranceFRAWestern Europe308,918
16New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand305,807
17United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe299,137
18BelgiumBELWestern Europe295,701
19AustriaAUTWestern Europe287,604
20QatarQATWestern Asia282,997
21FinlandFINNorthern Europe265,402
22United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia236,331
23JapanJPNEastern Asia231,116
24MaltaMLTSouthern Europe214,489
25SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe184,577

02In 2020

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Switzerland735,422
  2. 2Luxembourg646,928
  3. 3Iceland586,976
  4. 4United States503,350
  5. 5Norway500,361

Lowest

  1. 151Central African Republic700
  2. 150Burundi2,244
  3. 149Niger2,301
  4. 148Mozambique2,558
  5. 147Burkina Faso2,758

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 25,230. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032019 → 2020

Since 2019

What changed between 2019 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 151values changed, of 151 in both
  • 133 · 18rose · 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 2020.

  • 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 151 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 (2020). Human Capital Wealth per Capita, 2020 [data set], describing 2020. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/human-capital-per-capita/2020

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07Questions

Human Capital Wealth per Capita, 2020: questions and answers

Which country has the highest human capital wealth per person in Human Capital Wealth per Capita, 2020?

Switzerland, at 735,422, of the 151 countries in the file.

What year does Human Capital Wealth per Capita, 2020 describe?

2020.

How many countries does Human Capital Wealth per Capita, 2020 cover?

151.

Where can I download Human Capital Wealth per Capita, 2020?

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, 2020 the newest?

Yes, as of 2026-10-03, when it was read from the publisher.

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