Here's how wealthy the average family is in 35 countries around the world (2024)

Written by Andy Kiersz and Jenny Cheng

2018-07-22T15:02:00Z

Here's how wealthy the average family is in 35 countries around the world (1)

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How much money people have in the bank varies widely from country to country.
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development tracks average household financial wealth across its member countries.
Average net worth (not including real estate equity) ranges from $4,429 in Turkey to $176,076 in the United States.

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How much money people have in the bank varies widely from country to country.

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is a group of 36 countries around the world, including most of the major developed economies, dedicated to promoting "policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world," according to the OECD's website.

The OECD tracks several economic and social statistics for each of its member countries as part of its Better Life Index program. One of the measures is the average household net financial wealth, or the total value of a household's assets less liabilities, adjusted for the country's cost of living,in each member country (with the exception of Lithuania, which only recently joined the OECD and thus is not included in the most recent report.)

It's worth noting that the OECD statistics do not include real estate or housing wealth, as "such information is currently available for only a small number of OECD countries," according to the OECD.

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Average household wealth varies widely across OECD countries, ranging from a low of $4,429 in Turkey to a high of $176,076 in the United States. Across the entire OECD, the average household wealth was $90,570.

Here's the average household wealth across the OECD countries:

Here's how wealthy the average family is in 35 countries around the world (2)

And here's each country's average net financial worth, along with its average household net adjusted disposable income, defined by the OECD as "the amount of money that a household earns, or gains, each year after taxes and transfers," and representing money available for spending.

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United States

Here's how wealthy the average family is in 35 countries around the world (3)

Average household financial wealth: $176,076

Average household adjusted net disposable income: $44,049

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Switzerland

Here's how wealthy the average family is in 35 countries around the world (4)

Average household financial wealth: $128,415

Average household adjusted net disposable income: $36,378

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Belgium

Here's how wealthy the average family is in 35 countries around the world (5)

Average household financial wealth: $104,084

Average household adjusted net disposable income: $29,968

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Japan

Here's how wealthy the average family is in 35 countries around the world (6)

Average household financial wealth: $97,595

Average household adjusted net disposable income: $28,641

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Sweden

Here's how wealthy the average family is in 35 countries around the world (7)

Average household financial wealth: $90,708

Average household adjusted net disposable income: $30,553

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Netherlands

Here's how wealthy the average family is in 35 countries around the world (8)

Average household financial wealth: $90,002

Average household adjusted net disposable income: $28,783

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Canada

Here's how wealthy the average family is in 35 countries around the world (9)

Average household financial wealth: $85,758

Average household adjusted net disposable income: $29,850

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United Kingdom

Here's how wealthy the average family is in 35 countries around the world (10)

Average household financial wealth: $83,405

Average household adjusted net disposable income: $28,408

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Luxembourg

Here's how wealthy the average family is in 35 countries around the world (11)

Average household financial wealth: $74,141

Average household adjusted net disposable income: $41,317

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Denmark

Here's how wealthy the average family is in 35 countries around the world (12)

Average household financial wealth: $73,543

Average household adjusted net disposable income: $28,950

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Iceland

Here's how wealthy the average family is in 35 countries around the world (13)

Average household financial wealth: $64,398

Average household adjusted net disposable income: $30,453

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Italy

Here's how wealthy the average family is in 35 countries around the world (14)

Average household financial wealth: $64,019

Average household adjusted net disposable income: $26,063

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Israel

Here's how wealthy the average family is in 35 countries around the world (15)

Average household financial wealth: $61,805

Average household adjusted net disposable income: $24,036

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Austria

Here's how wealthy the average family is in 35 countries around the world (16)

Average household financial wealth: $59,574

Average household adjusted net disposable income: $32,544

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France

Here's how wealthy the average family is in 35 countries around the world (17)

Average household financial wealth: $59,479

Average household adjusted net disposable income: $31,137

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Australia

Here's how wealthy the average family is in 35 countries around the world (18)

Average household financial wealth: $57,462

Average household adjusted net disposable income: $33,417

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Germany

Here's how wealthy the average family is in 35 countries around the world (19)

Average household financial wealth: $57,358

Average household adjusted net disposable income: $33,652

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New Zealand

Here's how wealthy the average family is in 35 countries around the world (20)

Average household financial wealth: $52,718

Average household adjusted net disposable income: $24,366

Ireland

Here's how wealthy the average family is in 35 countries around the world (21)

Average household financial wealth: $43,493

Average household adjusted net disposable income: $25,439

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Spain

Here's how wealthy the average family is in 35 countries around the world (22)

Average household financial wealth: $35,443

Average household adjusted net disposable income: $23,129

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Korea

Here's how wealthy the average family is in 35 countries around the world (23)

Average household financial wealth: $33,495

Average household adjusted net disposable income: $21,723

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Portugal

Here's how wealthy the average family is in 35 countries around the world (24)

Average household financial wealth: $31,877

Average household adjusted net disposable income: $20,519

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Finland

Here's how wealthy the average family is in 35 countries around the world (25)

Average household financial wealth: $27,972

Average household adjusted net disposable income: $29,374

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Czech Republic

Here's how wealthy the average family is in 35 countries around the world (26)

Average household financial wealth: $24,258

Average household adjusted net disposable income: $21,103

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Hungary

Here's how wealthy the average family is in 35 countries around the world (27)

Average household financial wealth: $23,289

Average household adjusted net disposable income: $16,821

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Chile

Here's how wealthy the average family is in 35 countries around the world (28)

Average household financial wealth: $21,409

Average household adjusted net disposable income: $16,588

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Norway

Here's how wealthy the average family is in 35 countries around the world (29)

Average household financial wealth: $20,347

Average household adjusted net disposable income: $35,739

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Slovenia

Here's how wealthy the average family is in 35 countries around the world (30)

Average household financial wealth: $20,048

Average household adjusted net disposable income: $20,505

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Greece

Here's how wealthy the average family is in 35 countries around the world (31)

Average household financial wealth: $18,117

Average household adjusted net disposable income: $17,002

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Latvia

Here's how wealthy the average family is in 35 countries around the world (32)

Average household financial wealth: $17,105

Average household adjusted net disposable income: $15,269

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Estonia

Here's how wealthy the average family is in 35 countries around the world (33)

Average household financial wealth: $16,967

Average household adjusted net disposable income: $18,665

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Poland

Here's how wealthy the average family is in 35 countries around the world (34)

Average household financial wealth: $14,997

Average household adjusted net disposable income: $18,906

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Slovak Republic

Here's how wealthy the average family is in 35 countries around the world (35)

Average household financial wealth: $10,846

Average household adjusted net disposable income: $20,265

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Mexico

Here's how wealthy the average family is in 35 countries around the world (36)

Average household financial wealth: $4,750

Average household adjusted net disposable income: $13,891

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Turkey

Here's how wealthy the average family is in 35 countries around the world (37)

Average household financial wealth: $4,429

Average household adjusted net disposable income: $17,067

Andy Kiersz

Quantitative Editor

Andy is a quantitative editor at Business Insider. He studied mathematics at the University of Chicago and Purdue University.