Top five countries by wealth?
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by total GDP:\n\n1  United States  \n2  Japan  \n3  Germany  \n4  People's Republic of China   1\n5  United Kingdom  \n\nHowever, if you  use GDP per capita, it's:\n1Luxembourg$ 55,100\n2Norway$ 37,800\n3United States$ 37,800\n4San Marino$ 34,600\n5Switzerland$ 32,700
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If you look at countries like India, Brazil, Mexico. Wealth in the US is veru well distributed. People in some of those countries have to live with 50 dollars a month. In India they make as little as 63 dollars a year. Think about that.
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"The World's Richest People\nRank  Name  Citizenship  Age  Net Worth ($bil)  Residence \n1  William Gates III  United States  50  50.0  United States  \n2  Warren Buffett  United States  75  42.0  United States  \n3  Carlos Slim Helu  Mexico  66  30.0  Mexico  \n4  Ingvar Kamprad  Sweden  79  28.0  Switzerland  \n5  Lakshmi Mittal  India  55  23.5  United Kingdom  \n6  Paul Allen  United States  53  22.0  United States  \n7  Bernard Arnault  France  57  21.5  France  \n8  Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud  Saudi Arabia  49  20.0  Saudi Arabia  \n9  Kenneth Thomson & family  Canada  82  19.6  Canada  \n10  Li Ka-shing  Hong Kong  77  18.8  Hong Kong  \n11  Roman Abramovich  Russia  39  18.2  United Kingdom  \n12  Michael Dell  United States  41  17.1  United States  \n13  Karl Albrecht  Germany  86  17.0  Germany  \n14  Sheldon Adelson  United States  72  16.1  United States  \n15  Liliane Bettencourt  France  83  16.0  France  \n15  Lawrence Ellison  United States  61  16.0  United States  \n17  Christy Walton  United States  51  15.9  United States  \n17  Jim Walton  United States  58  15.9  United States  \n19  S Robson Walton  United States  62  15.8  United States  \n20  Alice Walton  United States  56  15.7  United States  \n21  Helen Walton  United States  86  15.6  United States  \n22  Theo Albrecht  Germany  83  15.2  Germany  \n23  Amancio Ortega  Spain  70  14.8  Spain  \n24  Steven Ballmer  United States  50  13.6  United States  \n25  Azim Premji  India  60  13.3  India\n26  Sergey Brin  United States  32  12.9  United States  \n27  Larry Page  United States  33  12.8  United States  \n28  Abigail Johnson  United States  44  12.5  United States  \n29  Nasser Al-Kharafi & family  Kuwait  62  12.4  Kuwait  \n29  Barbara Cox Anthony  United States  82  12.4  United States  \n29  Anne Cox Chambers  United States  86  12.4  United States  \n32  Stefan Persson  Sweden  58  12.3  Sweden  \n33  Charles Koch  United States  70  12.0  United States  \n33  David Koch  United States  65  12.0  United States  \n35  Raymond, Thomas & Walter Kwok  Hong Kong  NA  11.6  Hong Kong  \n36  Adolf Merckle  Germany  71  11.5  Germany  \n37  Sulaiman Bin Abdul Al Rajhi  Saudi Arabia  86  11.0  Saudi Arabia  \n37  Vagit Alekperov  Russia  55  11.0  Russia  \n37  Silvio Berlusconi  Italy  69  11.0  Italy  \n37  Lee Shau Kee  Hong Kong  78  11.0  Hong Kong  \n41  Vladimir Lisin  Russia  49  10.7  Russia  \n42  Michael Otto & family  Germany  62  10.4  Germany  \n43  Pierre Omidyar  United States  38  10.1  United States  \n44  Leonardo Del Vecchio  Italy  70  10.0  Italy  \n44  Michele Ferrero & family  Italy  79  10.0  Monaco  \n44  Forrest Mars Jr  United States  74  10.0  United States  \n44  Jacqueline Mars  United States  66  10.0  United States  \n44  John Mars  United States  69  10.0  United States  \n44  Viktor Vekselberg  Russia  48  10.0  Russia  \n50  Mikhail Fridman  Russia  41  9.7  Russia  \n51  Spiro Latsis & family  Greece  59  9.1  Switzerland  \n52  John Kluge  United States  91  9.0  United States  \n53  Carl Icahn  United States  70  8.7  United States  \n53  Kirk Kerkorian  United States  88  8.7  United States  \n55  Birgit Rausing & family  Sweden  82  8.6  Switzerland  \n56  Mukesh Ambani  India  48  8.5  India  \n56  Serge Dassault & family  France  80  8.5  France  \n56  Hans Rausing  Sweden  80  8.5  United Kingdom  \n59  Galen Weston & family  Canada  65  8.4  Canada  \n60  Susanne Klatten  Germany  43  8.1  Germany  \n61  Rudolf August Oetker & family  Germany  89  8.0  Germany  \n62  Oleg Deripaska  Russia  37  7.8  Russia  \n63  Sumner Redstone  United States  82  7.7  United States  \n64  Alexei Mordashov  Russia  40  7.6  Russia  \n65  Donald Newhouse  United States  76  7.5  United States  \n65  Samuel Newhouse Jr  United States  78  7.5  United States  \n65  Alain & Gerard Wertheimer  France  NA  7.5  France  \n65  Reinhold Würth  Germany  70  7.5  Germany  \n69  Joseph & Moise Safra  Brazil  NA
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1. Marketing and Sales\n2. Accounts and Finance\n3. Human Resource\n4. Production and Services\n5. Information Technology\n\nOR\n\n1. Asia\n2. Africa\n3. Europe\n4. America\n5. Australasia
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Heavily Indebted Poor Countries--is now classified as third world. -check the link for the list http://www.imf.org/external/np/hipc/index.asp\n\nDeveloping and Industrial countries are 33 countries: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Côte d'Ivoire, Egypt, France, Germany, Hong Kong SAR, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States.\n\nGood Luck and Prosper...;*!*;...
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see in\nhttp://www.citymayors.com/economics/richest_cities.html\nRank Cities Wage index \n1  Zurich 100.0 \n2  Basel 95.8 \n3  Geneva 88.5 \n4  Oslo 86.2 \n5  Lugano 85.1 \n6  Luxembourg 82.0 \n7  Copenhagen 79.9 \n8  Dublin 73.6 \n9  Chicago 72.8 \n10  New York 70.6 \n11  Tokyo 67.6 \n12  London 65.9 \n13  Los Angeles 65.4 \n14  Frankfurt 63.3 \n15  Helsinki 62.1
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1. Switzerland\n2. Germany\n3. United Kingdom\n4. Austria\n5. Ireland
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Please see the list in the sources section, but there are several countries that share the #1 spot at 99.9% literacy, but I'm not sure how you want the information presented, so I'll just give you the link and you can sort the data how you see fit :)
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None. Some, I think, are doing better than other...\nI would say Sweden, Norway, maybe Denmark and Iceland (they really give a lot of money per inhabitant to the rest of the world).\nBut even this attitude is selfish!
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We are able to call ourselves the richest nation in the world because of our GDP (Gross Domestic Product) and GNP (Gross National Product).  Technically like Luxembourg and a few others are richer (per capita) but since we're so much larger and have so much more influence over the world economy, it's just generally assumed we get the title.  There are single cities and states in the US that have larger and more powerful economies than most countries.
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People in wealthy countries are better educated.
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SWITZERLAND followed by Germany, Norway, and the United Kingdom. USA comes in fifth followed by France and Spain.
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Panama is number 2 next to Switzerland, but is growing at a faster rate that Switzerland. There is a ninety minute presentation that might be good for you to watch that explains some strategies of the ultra wealthy like offshore investing, asset protect, and tax reduction. Some of the big corporations use panama for those reason. Some of the corporations are fedex, Costco, united airline, carnival cruse line, DHL
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As pointed out there are many levels on which this could be answered.\nHowever, your question suggests which country has the most might regardless of component factors.\nhere goes.\n1.USA\n2.china.\n3.israel.\n4.britain.\n5.france.\n6.north korea\n7.russia\n8.finland\n9.australia\n10japan.
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Number 1 is Saudi Arabia and I think the next one is Hongkong. Look at it in http://www.census.gov.ph/data/sectordata/1999/of9905.htm
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Well, it depends on how you define "wealthy"\n\nThere are several factors: Total GDP, Total GNP, GDP per capita, etc. that determine how "wealthy" a nation is...\n\nFor example, the United States of America might have the biggest GDP in the world, but a small country like Luxembourg might have the highest GDP per capita in the world.\n\nBut - recently - the United Nations ranked Norway is the world's richest nation.\n\nPersonally, taking an average of all the factors that make a country rich, I would say the USA is the richest country in the world.\n\n-Anand-
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Japan is the wealthiest, with a GDP of about $4.6 trillion, or $36,000 per person.  The poorest is East Timor, with a GDP of only $332 million.  (Those figures aren't exact, because there is a lot of variability in how the numbers are calculated).  The poorest on a per-capita basis is Myanmar, at $219/person.