Households own properties and financial investments, and owe debt. Asset composition varies by country and time due to factors including demographics, financial markets, taxes, preferences, and pensions. Improving our understanding of how households hold wealth can inform policies that promote growth, stability, and fairness in society. Visualize and explore different asset classes as mountains atop seas of debt, retrieving data from national balance sheets, financial accounts, and household surveys.
Wealth Topography
Visualize the evolution of household portfolios of assets and debt at the aggregate level for any given country and statistical source.
Primary View
Visualize the evolution of household portfolios of assets and debt at the aggregate level for any given country and statistical source.
Use the country view to inspect how assets and debt stack up in one market over time.
Comparisons
Compare the data of various statistical sources for a given country.
Move between source and country comparisons to check how estimates shift with the underlying data.
Wealth Topography
Visualize the evolution of portfolios of financial, business assets, and debt at the aggregate level for any given country and statistical source.
Primary View
Visualize the evolution of portfolios of financial, business assets, and debt at the aggregate level for any given country and statistical source.
Focus on financial and business assets when you need a narrower slice of the balance sheet.
Comparisons
Compare the data of various statistical sources for a given country.
Compare sources and countries without leaving the financial wealth view.
Comparative View
Compare various countries' evolutions in value of any given class of household asset or debt at the aggregate level according to any given statistical source.
Comparative view
Compare various countries' evolutions in value of any given class of household asset or debt at the aggregate level according to any given statistical source.
Useful when you want to compare one asset class across countries.
Comparative view
Compare various statistical sources' data on the evolution in value of any given class of household asset or debt at the aggregate level for any given country.
Use the source comparison to test how a series changes across data providers.
A full list of sources for this database is available in the Wealth Topography section of the Data Sources Library.