Emigrate to Australia: ninth richest country
24 August 2016 by News DeskEmigrate to Australia and live in one of the wealthiest countries in the world.
Emigrate to Australia: the country is considered an economic powerhouse and ranked number nine in a report by New World Wealth.
The report takes into account the net individual wealth of a person, including all their assets- cash, property, equities and investments. The report excluded the government funds from its figures.
The net individual wealth of Australia has been calculated to be $4,500 billion. The country’s ranking has been termed as “impressive” despite its very small population.
Australia ranks fourth in the world for wealth with a per capita annual income of $203,000 per year.
“Australia’s ranking is impressive, considering it only has 22 million people living there,” the report says.
The US is the wealthiest country in the world with a total individual wealth of astronomical $48,900 billion, ahead of China’s $17,400 billion.
Emigrate to Australia: ninth richest country
Japan with $15,100 billion ranked third on the report.
Others in the top 10 club were the United Kingdom at No. 4 with a total individual wealth of $9,200 billion, followed by Germany (5th, $9,100 billion) and France (6th, $6,600 billion).
Canada with $4,700 billion ranked 8th, one above Australia, and Italy ($4,400 billion) is on the tenth position.
Over the past 5 years, China was the fastest growing wealthiest country in terms of dollar wealth growth.
The USA fell to No 8 in the highest per capita income with $151,000.
On India, the report stated, “Australia and India also grew strongly and India, Australia and Canada have overtaken Italy over the past 12 months.”
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