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June 30, 2026, 11:35 a.mJune 30, 2026, 11:35 a.m
The Swiss population continues to have the highest average wealth in the world. Global private wealth increased more strongly in 2025 than it did in 2017 – but the increases were distributed unevenly.
According to the report published on Tuesday, every adult in this country has one “Global Wealth Report” UBS averaged the equivalent of $910,382. The next places are the USA ($696,277) and Luxembourg ($654,732).
UBS defines assets as the sum of all financial assets and material assets such as real estate owned by private individuals minus their debts. The assets of private pension funds were also included.
13 percent hold 69 percent of the assets
Almost 944,000 adults in Switzerland are dollar millionaires – that corresponds to 13.1 percent of all adults in the country. This group concentrates around 69 percent of all private assets.
When it comes to the so-called median wealth, Switzerland only ranks 8th with 145,555 US dollars per person. Luxembourg leads here with 394,005 US dollars, followed by Belgium with 277,166 dollars and Australia with 210,783 dollars. The median is the statistical mean, 50 percent of the values are above and 50 are below.
Even over a longer time horizon, there is a mixed picture in Switzerland: between 2000 and 2025, the average real wealth per adult grew by just over 11 percent, while the real median wealth fell by almost 15 percent in the same period.
Many new US millionaires
Global private assets rose by 10.8 percent in US dollars in 2025, significantly more than in the previous years 2024 (+4.6 percent) and 2023 (+4.2 percent). Growth was strongest in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at 17.5 percent, followed by America at 8.5 percent and the Asia-Pacific region at 5.9 percent.
According to UBS, the regional differences partly reflect exchange rate movements. In particular, the devaluation of the US dollar is mentioned.
The increases were also distributed unevenly globally: while average assets increased worldwide, median assets fell in most markets. The number of dollar millionaires rose by around 1.5 percent in 2025, which corresponds to almost a million new millionaires – almost half of which were in the USA. (pre/sda)