[comfortably numb]

Switzerland is way richer than GER and NED.

This is obvious, but not the point. The question is: with German home ownership of 51%, and higher than Swiss 42%, how come the RATIO of mean/median wealth is 2.5 for Swiss and 6.2 for Germany.

Moreover, take Germany and Austria. 51% and 55% home ownership. Very similar Gini coefficient of about 0.3 after tax (measure of income inequaliity). And again, mean/median ratios are 6.2 and 2.9

Somebody at Credit Suisse (which seems was the original source of those numbers for means and medians) had a bug in his calculator

 

[Timariot]

'Wealth' comparisons might be misleading between countries due to different systems in pension, education etc. For example Finland has free education, so nobody keeps a college fund for their kids and thus don't have this 'wealth' stashed away.

 

[Molok]

It seems different financial company different results. They more or less have probably data just from their clients.
Here is the global wealth report from Allianz.

https://www.allianz.com/content/dam/onemarketing/azcom/Allianz_com/economic-research/publications/specials/en/2019/AGWR_2019.pdf

On page 127 you can find a chart for Net financial assets and Gross financial assets.
Both include also real estate, Net includes also liabilities/depts.

 

[spiceboy]

 

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