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[–] [email protected] 9 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

A lot wealthier, but that's in significant part because most of the world is very poor relative to most people reading this. Some guy in Sudan isn't gonna be reading your post.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_per_adult

Median global wealth per adult (2023):

North America: $108,918

Europe: $28,611

China: $27,273

World: $8,654

Latin America: $6,341

Asia-Pacific (excluding China and India): $5,176

India: $3,755

Africa: $1,242

I think that you're going to have a hard time getting fine-grained data globally, though, because lots of countries just don't gather data and those that do often don't measure it in the same way. I really wish that the UK had stayed in Eurostat when leaving the EU, because now getting comparable data for the UK and EU isn't doable.

If it's the US (in 2021 dollars), on a per-household basis:

https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2023/demo/p70br-183.pdf

Median Wealth by Household Characteristics: 2021

Typically someone tends to build up assets during their working life, and spend them in retirement, so age is gonna be a factor.

Age of Householder

Age Wealth ($)
Under 35 30,500
35 to 44 126,900
45 to 54 186,000
55 to 64 276,000
65 to 69 341,400
70 to 74 373,900
75 and older 315,900

Highest Level of Educational Attainment in Household

Education Wealth ($)
No high school diploma 8,460
High school graduate 55,030
Some college, no degree 90,810
Associate degree 139,000
Bachelor's degree 266,600
Graduate or professional degree 555,900

Annual Household Income

Quintile Wealth ($)
First 12,000
Second 61,260
Third 145,200
Fourth 269,100
Fifth 805,400

Also, just for good measure, since I suppose that "gold" would fall into "other asset holdings", you'd be pretty high relative to the norm in that category:

Composition of Wealth by Asset Type

Category Percent
Retirement accounts 34.1%
Equity in own home 28.5%
Stocks and mutual funds 11.9%
Assets at financial institutions 8.1%
Other asset holdings 4.6%
Rental properties 4.3%
Business assets 3.9%
Other real estate 3.6%
Vehicles 3.2%
Bonds 0.7%
Student loan and education-related expenses -1.5%
Credit card and store bills -0.5%
Medical debts -0.5%
Other unsecured debts -0.4%