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Human Capital Wealth per Capita, 2015

2015, as World Bank Group’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Human Capital Wealth per Capita, 2015 covers 151 countries. Switzerland is highest, at 720,714; Central African Republic is lowest, at 687. The middle country reads 21,185. Against 2014, 151 values changed (127 up, 24 down), the same countries are covered.

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Human Capital Wealth per Capita · Data for 2015

HighestSwitzerland

720,714

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, 2015, 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, 2015: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe720,714
2LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe575,828
3IcelandISLNorthern Europe552,953
4NorwayNORNorthern Europe508,568
5United StatesUSANorthern America477,577
6DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe460,836
7NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe402,264
8AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand389,484
9SwedenSWENorthern Europe354,684
10SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia346,426
11GermanyDEUWestern Europe346,031
12CanadaCANNorthern America339,538
13IrelandIRLNorthern Europe330,552
14IsraelISRWestern Asia296,360
15FranceFRAWestern Europe293,306
16United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe290,201
17AustriaAUTWestern Europe274,336
18New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand273,411
19BelgiumBELWestern Europe266,870
20FinlandFINNorthern Europe249,512
21United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia235,640
22QatarQATWestern Asia224,489
23JapanJPNEastern Asia218,558
24MaltaMLTSouthern Europe187,216
25South KoreaKOREastern Asia160,766

02In 2015

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Switzerland720,714
  2. 2Luxembourg575,828
  3. 3Iceland552,953
  4. 4Norway508,568
  5. 5United States477,577

Lowest

  1. 151Central African Republic687
  2. 150Burundi2,225
  3. 149Niger2,249
  4. 148Gambia2,299
  5. 147Mozambique2,457

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 21,185. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032014 → 2015

Since 2014

What changed between 2014 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 151values changed, of 151 in both
  • 127 · 24rose · 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 2015.

  • 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 (2015). Human Capital Wealth per Capita, 2015 [data set], describing 2015. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/human-capital-per-capita/2015

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07Questions

Human Capital Wealth per Capita, 2015: questions and answers

Which country has the highest human capital wealth per person in Human Capital Wealth per Capita, 2015?

Switzerland, at 720,714, of the 151 countries in the file.

What year does Human Capital Wealth per Capita, 2015 describe?

2015.

How many countries does Human Capital Wealth per Capita, 2015 cover?

151.

Where can I download Human Capital Wealth per Capita, 2015?

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, 2015 the newest?

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

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