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Human capital (real chained 2019 US$)

Human capital is computed as the present value of future earnings for the working population over their lifetimes. Values are measured at market exchange rates in constant 2018 US dollars, using a country-specific GDP deflator.

📅 2020📏 real chained 2019 US$150 entries

Europe · 39

Oceania · 4

Asia · 36

Americas · 26

Africa · 45

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Every dot is one country, placed by its value (real chained 2019 US$, logarithmic scale); the vertical bar marks each row’s median. Rows are world regions, ordered by their median. Hover a dot for its name.

🇺🇸United States

166,874,188,831,017.0

🇨🇳China

71,733,571,906,448.8

🇩🇪Germany

30,014,665,053,976.2

🇯🇵Japan

29,180,998,167,336.9

🇫🇷France

20,873,962,675,048.1

🇬🇧United Kingdom

20,066,489,823,925.8

🇧🇷Brazil

13,628,019,095,440.3

🇮🇳India

13,414,900,788,487.4

🇨🇦Canada

13,362,318,426,257.3

🇦🇺Australia

10,459,686,253,971.0

🇮🇹Italy

9,929,379,732,329.7

🇰🇷South Korea

9,039,870,118,185.8

🇷🇺Russia

8,273,506,149,491.8

🇪🇸Spain

7,967,208,443,861.5

🇳🇱Netherlands

7,549,083,369,062.1

🇨🇭Switzerland

6,352,694,571,033.3

🇲🇽Mexico

5,636,189,244,569.2

🇮🇩Indonesia

4,346,034,030,101.1

🇸🇪Sweden

3,818,892,986,168.9

🇹🇭Thailand

3,654,927,849,107.7

🇧🇪Belgium

3,411,980,757,979.1

🇹🇷Türkiye

3,303,339,022,041.8

🇵🇱Poland

3,234,439,342,925.5

🇮🇱Israel

2,912,595,790,166.9

🇩🇰Denmark

2,832,068,675,665.6

🇳🇴Norway

2,691,680,107,838.3

🇦🇷Argentina

2,567,714,494,158.1

🇦🇹Austria

2,564,528,489,332.3

🇸🇬Singapore

2,456,173,396,049.5

🇨🇴Colombia

2,403,524,270,567.0

🇸🇦Saudi Arabia

2,258,605,856,019.4

🇦🇪United Arab Emirates

2,194,872,485,937.2

🇲🇾Malaysia

2,094,673,872,349.1

🇿🇦South Africa

2,040,338,651,941.9

🇨🇱Chile

2,040,050,444,931.1

🇵🇭Philippines

2,024,746,982,387.7

🇻🇳Vietnam

1,857,858,217,235.8

🇮🇪Ireland

1,850,721,993,659.1

🇵🇰Pakistan

1,615,107,196,445.9

🇧🇩Bangladesh

1,562,010,806,806.8

🇳🇿New Zealand

1,556,617,322,807.9

🇨🇿Czechia

1,493,515,544,489.4

🇵🇪Peru

1,490,000,678,453.4

🇫🇮Finland

1,467,549,115,626.8

🇳🇬Nigeria

1,402,266,707,802.1

🇵🇹Portugal

1,379,002,505,628.8

🇷🇴Romania

1,152,087,444,562.9

🇮🇷Iran

1,031,169,226,725.8

🇪🇬Egypt

1,013,865,106,503.0

🇪🇹Ethiopia

995,277,127,324.4

Highlights

As of 2020, United States ranks first with 166,874,188,831,017.0, followed by China (71,733,571,906,448.8) and Germany (30,014,665,053,976.2).

United States is 2.3 times higher than China, the runner-up.

Across 150 countries and territories, values run from 166,874,188,831,017.0 (United States) to 3,270,352,358.2 (São Tomé and Príncipe), with a median of 307,733,933,264.4.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 3 from the Americas, 3 from Asia, 3 from Europe and 1 from Oceania.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Human capital (real chained 2019 US$), 2020. Unit: real chained 2019 US$.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Human capital (real chained 2019 US$) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 17, 2026

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