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Personal value statistics: Wealth

Wealth appeared in the ranked ten of 18.1% of the 2,131,634 assessments completed since 2020, which makes it the 19th most frequently ranked of the 62 core values.

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At a glance, 2020 to 2026

Appearance rateof assessments rank it in their ten. 19th of 62 values.
18.1%
First placeof assessments put it first. 12th of 62 on this measure.
2.1%
Top threeof assessments put it in the top three. 36% of those who rank it.
6.6%
Average positionis its mean position, out of ten, where it is ranked at all.
5.0

In the overall ranking wealth sits just below Discipline (19.1%) and just above Compassion (18.1%).

How the Popularity of Wealth Has Changed

In 2020 wealth appeared in 13.9% of assessments and ranked 32nd. In 2026 so far it appeared in 17.6% and ranked 22nd, a rise of 3.7 percentage points.

Pick a measure, and read it by year or month by month. A month holds a few thousand assessments, so it moves more than a year does. The gaps are months the archive has no data for.

Wealth, year by year

Each rank is among the 62 values that year, by appearance rate. The arrow is its move from the year before.

Wealth by year: assessments, appearance rate and rank, first place, top three and average position
YearAssessmentsAppearance rateRankFirst placeTop threeAverage position
202084,37813.9%32nd1.3%4.6%5.2
2021224,09615.6%28th▲41.7%5.4%5.1
2022179,27117.6%22nd▲62.0%6.4%5.0
2023397,24918.4%20th▲22.2%6.7%4.9
2024460,24418.9%18th▲22.2%6.9%4.9
2025449,23319.8%19th▼12.3%7.2%5.0
2026 so far337,16317.6%22nd▼32.2%6.4%5.1

2020 holds 6 months of data and 2022 holds 7 months of data, so their figures cover part of the year. 2026 covers January to October 2026.

Wealth by Country

Of the 26 countries with enough assessments to publish, participants in Hong Kong SAR China rank wealth most often, at 36.6%, and those in Brazil least often, at 6.7%.

Country is recorded for the assessments from December 2025 to October 2026, so this section reads those 300,899 assessments and compares each country with all of them.

Where wealth is ranked most often

17.0% of participants rank wealth in their top ten, from 36.6% in Hong Kong SAR China to 6.7% in Brazil. Tap or hover a country to see its top values.

  • 6–11%
  • 11–16%
  • 16–22%
  • 22–27%
  • 27–32%
  • 32–37%
  • too few assessments
Appearance rate of wealth by country, December 2025 to October 2026
CountryAppearance ratevs average (pp)Rank there
Hong Kong SAR China
36.6%
+19.64th of 62
India
26.7%
+9.78th of 62
Switzerland
25.3%
+8.312th of 62
Egypt
25.2%
+8.212th of 62
United Arab Emirates
23.8%
+6.810th of 62
Philippines
22.8%
+5.811th of 62
Singapore
22.5%
+5.612th of 62
Indonesia
19.3%
+2.417th of 62
Saudi Arabia
19.0%
+2.018th of 62
Vietnam
18.9%
+1.920th of 62
France
18.9%
+1.923rd of 62
Malaysia
18.8%
+1.816th of 62
South Africa
18.2%
+1.220th of 62
Canada
16.9%
−0.122nd of 62
United States
16.7%
−0.322nd of 62
Italy
16.5%
−0.524th of 62
New Zealand
15.5%
−1.529th of 62
Australia
15.4%
−1.625th of 62
Poland
15.3%
−1.729th of 62
Romania
15.2%
−1.826th of 62
Netherlands
15.2%
−1.829th of 62
Mexico
14.4%
−2.630th of 62
United Kingdom
11.4%
−5.640th of 62
Germany
11.2%
−5.841st of 62
Ireland
10.0%
−7.046th of 62
Brazil
6.7%
−10.355th of 62

Every assessment with a known country, 17.0%

Wealth by Age

Wealth is ranked less often with age, from 22.9% of assessments among participants under 18 to 11.1% among those 65 and over, about 3.5 points per band.

Age is an optional question after the ranking, so this section reads the 75,449 assessments from December 2025 to October 2026 whose participants gave one. A difference between bands mixes what changes as people age with what differs between generations.

Appearance rate of wealth by age band, December 2025 to October 2026
AgeAppearance ratevs average (pp)Rank there
Under 18
22.9%
+8.212th of 62
18–24
18.4%
+3.620th of 62
25–34
12.4%
−2.439th of 62
35–44
9.5%
−5.247th of 62
45–54
8.2%
−6.652nd of 62
55–64
5.3%
−9.556th of 62
65 and over
11.1%
−3.644th of 62

Everyone who gave an age, 14.8%

Wealth by Gender

Men rank wealth more often than women, by 7.9 percentage points.

Gender is optional too, asked beside age, so this section reads the 73,168 assessments from December 2025 to October 2026 whose participants gave one. “Prefer not to say” is counted in no group.

Appearance rate of wealth by gender, December 2025 to October 2026
GenderAppearance ratevs average (pp)Rank there
Women
11.8%
−3.043rd of 62
Men
19.6%
+4.817th of 62
Non-binary
8.9%
−5.948th of 62

Everyone who gave a gender, 14.8%

About These Figures

Every figure on this page is a share of completed assessments on Personalvalu.es, read from the same aggregates as the Global Values Research. The appearance rate is how often wealth is among a participant's ten most important values. It is not a score, and a difference between groups describes the participants in them without explaining it.

How the aggregates are built, and why some countries and groups are left out, is set out in the methodology. Month-by-month figures for every value are in the monthly archive.

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