The common wealth owned by Israeli adults shrank by $24,000 in 2022 to $235,000, in accordance with the most recent International Wealth Report compiled by Swiss banks Credit score Suisse and UBS, launched at present (UBS purchased Credit score Suisse in June this 12 months after its collapse).
The decline will not be solely in absolute phrases, but in addition relative: in 2021, Israel was in sixteenth place worldwide for common wealth, however fell to nineteenth place in 2022. Within the median wealth rankings, Israel was not within the prime twenty.
The report finds that international personal wealth shrank in 2022 for the primary time because the monetary disaster of 2008, falling 2.4% to $454.4 trillion, though it states that “A lot of this decline comes from the appreciation of the US greenback towards many different currencies,” and that “If alternate charges have been held fixed at 2021 charges, then whole wealth would have elevated by 3.4% and wealth per grownup by 2.2% throughout 2022.”
Though the report doesn’t specify causes for the decline in wealth in Israel, it might seem that the weakening of the shekel towards the US greenback performed a big half.
The report states that “When it comes to wealth per grownup, Switzerland continues to prime the checklist adopted by the USA, Hong Kong SAR, Australia and Denmark regardless of sizeable reductions in imply wealth versus 2021.”
Trying to the longer term, the Swiss banks estimate that “international wealth will rise by 38% over the subsequent 5 years, reaching USD 629 trillion by 2027,” which can be $110,270 per grownup.
Revealed by Globes, Israel enterprise information – en.globes.co.il – on August 16, 2023.
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