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Personal value statistics: Wealth

Wealth appeared in the ranked ten of 18.2% of the 2,099,004 assessments completed since 2020, which makes it the 19th most frequently ranked of the 62 core values.

What wealth means as a value →

At a glance, 2020 to 2026

Appearance rateof assessments rank it in their ten. 19th of 62 values.
18.2%
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 (19.2%) 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 18.2% and ranked 21st, a rise of 4.3 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 far304,53318.2%21st▼22.3%6.6%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 September 2026.

Wealth by Country

Of the 25 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 September 2026, so this section reads those 272,982 assessments and compares each country with all of them.

Where wealth is ranked most often

17.5% 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 September 2026
CountryAppearance ratevs average (pp)Rank there
Hong Kong SAR China
36.6%
+19.14th of 62
United Arab Emirates
27.0%
+9.59th of 62
Egypt
27.0%
+9.510th of 62
India
27.0%
+9.58th of 62
Switzerland
26.0%
+8.411th of 62
Singapore
23.7%
+6.212th of 62
Philippines
23.3%
+5.811th of 62
Saudi Arabia
20.6%
+3.117th of 62
France
20.5%
+3.020th of 62
Indonesia
20.2%
+2.714th of 62
Malaysia
19.4%
+1.917th of 62
South Africa
18.6%
+1.020th of 62
Canada
17.5%
+0.021st of 62
United States
17.2%
−0.322nd of 62
Italy
16.5%
−1.024th of 62
Australia
15.8%
−1.725th of 62
Romania
15.7%
−1.825th of 62
Netherlands
15.7%
−1.828th of 62
New Zealand
15.7%
−1.926th of 62
Poland
15.6%
−1.928th of 62
Mexico
15.5%
−2.028th of 62
United Kingdom
12.1%
−5.436th of 62
Germany
11.7%
−5.839th of 62
Ireland
9.9%
−7.745th of 62
Brazil
6.7%
−10.855th of 62

Every assessment with a known country, 17.5%

Wealth by Age

Wealth is ranked less often with age, from 23.9% of assessments among participants under 18 to 12.0% among those 65 and over, about 3.6 points per band.

Age is an optional question after the ranking, so this section reads the 66,624 assessments from December 2025 to September 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 September 2026
AgeAppearance ratevs average (pp)Rank there
Under 18
23.9%
+8.511th of 62
18–24
19.2%
+3.819th of 62
25–34
13.0%
−2.437th of 62
35–44
9.7%
−5.646th of 62
45–54
8.4%
−6.951st of 62
55–64
5.4%
−10.055th of 62
65 and over
12.0%
−3.440th of 62

Everyone who gave an age, 15.4%

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 64,656 assessments from December 2025 to September 2026 whose participants gave one. “Prefer not to say” is counted in no group.

Appearance rate of wealth by gender, December 2025 to September 2026
GenderAppearance ratevs average (pp)Rank there
Women
12.3%
−3.136th of 62
Men
20.2%
+4.917th of 62
Non-binary
9.2%
−6.248th of 62

Everyone who gave a gender, 15.4%

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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