For the past ten years, the Credit Suisse
Research Institute’s Global wealth report has
been the leading reference on global household
wealth. It contains the most comprehensive and
up-to-date findings on global wealth across the
entire wealth spectrum – from the very base of
the “wealth pyramid,” covering 2.9 billion adults
with wealth below USD 10,000, to those at the
apex of the wealth pyramid, who comprise less
than 1% of the adult population, but own 44%
of household wealth. During the 12 months to
mid-2019, aggregate global wealth rose by USD
9.1 trillion (2.6%) to a combined total of USD
361 trillion. Wealth per adult grew by a modest
1.2%, although global average wealth achieved
yet another record high of USD 70,850 per
adult.
