While almost one million people crossed the $1 million wealth threshold in 2025, that growth was far from evenly shared across countries.
This visualization, via Visual Capitalist's Bruno Venditti, ranks the 31 countries that added the most new USD millionaires between 2024 and 2025, revealing where personal wealth expanded fastest over the past year.
The data comes from the UBS Global Wealth Report 2026, which tracks individuals whose net worth exceeded $1 million USD.
The U.S. Dominates Global Wealth Creation
The United States added 441,078 new millionaires in one year, more than 10 times the total recorded by the second-ranked UK.
RankCountryNew USD millionaires (2024–2025) 1🇺🇸 U.S.441,078 2🇬🇧 UK43,139 3🇫🇷 France34,604 4🇪🇸 Spain32,707 5🇯🇵 Japan31,428 6🇮🇳 India31,033 7🇮🇹 Italy28,596 8🇦🇺 Australia25,089 9🇩🇪 Germany24,263 10🇷🇺 Russia21,951 11🇰🇷 South Korea20,227 12🇨🇳 China14,079 13🇹🇼 Taiwan9,864 14🇮🇪 Ireland9,491 15🇧🇷 Brazil9,215 16🇨🇭 Switzerland8,907 17🇮🇱 Israel8,803 18🇲🇽 Mexico8,724 19🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia8,718 20🇦🇪 UAE6,277 21🇹🇷 Türkiye5,650 22🇸🇬 Singapore5,240 23🇵🇱 Poland3,888 24🇿🇦 South Africa3,840 25🇬🇷 Greece2,762 26🇨🇱 Chile2,593 27🇭🇰 Hong Kong SAR1,891 28🇭🇺 Hungary1,349 29🇱🇻 Latvia1,131 30🇱🇹 Lithuania921 31🇶🇦 Qatar528Canada was not included in this year’s UBS Wealth Report for the ranking and is absent.
American households accounted for nearly half of everyone worldwide who crossed the $1 million threshold in 2025, underscoring the country’s
