Dieter Schwarz, according to Forbes, was the wealthiest person in Germany as of 2025, with assets amounting to around 38.5 billion U.S. dollars. Dieter Schwarz is the owner of the Schwarz Gruppe, which owns both the supermarket chains Kaufland and Lidl. Klaus-Michael Kühne follows in second place. Among other things, he is the majority owner of the logistics company Kühne + Nagel International AG. Who are the richest people in Germany? Dieter Schwarz is the owner of the Schwarz Gruppe, which owns both the supermarket chains Kaufland and Lidl. In 2023, the Schwarz Gruppe recorded around 56.55 million euros in revenue. Karl Albrecht Jr. is the owner of the popular discount grocery store chain Aldi Süd. As of 2023, there were over 2,000 Aldi Süd stores in Germany. This, of course, does not include all the stores in other countries such as Ireland, the United Kingdom, and Australia, just to name a few. German salaries Germany currently has the highest GDP in Europe. However, this does not mean that everyone in Germany is a billionaire. The average salary is, in fact, around 48,380 euros. Although the trend is that German salaries have been on the rise since 2000, there has been a dip since 2019. This is probably due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the inflation of 2022.

This statistic illustrates the number of millionaire (HNWI, UHNWI) and billionaire individuals in Germany in selected years from 2014 to 2019, with a forecast for 2024, by wealth bracket. The high, ultra-high and billionaire's population are set to see continued growth. By 2024, the number of billionaires in Germany is set to reach 147.

As of 2024, the richest person in Europe was Bernard Arnault, the French founder of Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy (LVMH), the world's largest luxury goods company. Other individuals in the top ten richest people in Europe include the richest Spaniard, Amancio Ortega, who founded the fashion brand Zara, as well as the richest German, Klaus Kuehne, the founder of the shipping company Kuehne + Nagel.

In Europe, the variation in average amounts of financial wealth per adult varied considerably as of 2022, from approximately 449,000 U.S. dollars in Switzerland to roughly 1,200 U.S. dollars in Azerbaijan. In Europe, the overall average financial wealth per adult as of 2022 was 84,308 U.S. dollars. In terms of private wealth, Europe held the second highest value in the world, after North America.

What is financial wealth?

Financial wealth, also known as financial assets or liquid assets can include wealth that an individual has in the forms of cash, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and bank deposits. In addition to financial wealth, wealth can also be measured in other assets, called non-financial wealth. This includes physical assets, such as real estate, land, vehicles, jewelry, and art, just to name a few.

Where do most wealthy individuals live?

Individuals with a net worth over one million U.S. dollars are called high-net worth individuals (HNWI). The United States was the home country to the highest number of HNWIs in 2021. China followed, although their number of HNWIs did not even reach one third of the number in the United States. In Europe, Switzerland is the country with the highest average financial wealth per adult, but with its small population size, the number of HNWIs does not come near the numbers in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, and Italy – the European countries with the highest number of HNWIs. Considering Switzerland’s small population size, however, it is the country in the world with the highest proportion of millionaires.

In 2024, the Mexican business magnate Carlos Slim Helu and his family had a fortune worth of 102 billion U.S. dollars and was thus the richest person in the country. The Helu family owns América Móvil, Latin America's biggest mobile telecom company.The second richest person in Mexico that year was German Larrea Velasco, who owns the majority of Mexico’s largest copper mining company, with a fortune of nearly 28 billion U.S. dollars.

According to the Hurun Global Rich List 2025, the United States housed the highest number of billionaires worldwide in 2025. In detail, there were 870 billionaires living in the United States as of January that year. By comparison, 823 billionaires resided in China. India, the United Kingdom, and Germany were also the homes of a significant number of billionaires that year. United States has regained its first place As the founder and exporter of consumer capitalism, it is no surprise that the United States is home to a large number of billionaires. Although China had briefly overtaken the U.S. in recent years, the United States has reclaimed its position as the country with the most billionaires in the world. Moreover, North America leads the way in terms of the highest number of ultra high net worth individuals – those with a net worth of more than fifty million U.S. dollars. The prominence of Europe and North America is a reflection of the higher degree of economic development in those states. However, this may also change as China and other emerging economies continue developing. Female billionaires Moreover, the small proportion of female billionaires does little to counter critics claiming the global economy is dominated by an elite comprised mainly of men. On the list of the 20 richest people in the world, only one was a woman. Moreover, recent political discourse has put a great amount of attention on the wealth held by the super-rich with the wealth distribution of the global population being heavily unequal.

Research done by the Credit Suisse Research Institute states that the country with the highest number of millionaires is the U.S., with nearly 30 million millionaires and 17 million people with wealth up to $5 million! To put numbers in perspective, China, Japan, Germany, the U.K., and France, added together, have a total of 17 million millionaires!

Disposable Income refers to an individual or household's net income once taxes and other employer deductions are taken into account. In other words, it is the amount of money an individual has for spending on essential and non-essential goods and services.

What is included in this income dataset?

All data is also calculated as a total (in Euros), a percentage (%) and as an index - with an index of 100 representing the average disposable income per selected administrative level. The disposable income data for Germany is available at street and 5-digit postal code level.

Our German Disposable Income datasets include the following variables:

Income

• Total Number of Inhabitants

Households

• Total Number of Households

Disposable Income

• Total Disposable Income
• Average Disposable Income per Inhabitant
• Average Disposable Income per Household

• Disposable income is also known as purchasing power. Purchasing power simply is the amount of money a person has left to buy products. It is a good indicator of the economic wealth of certain areas. Having access to this data greatly improves strategic decisions you make.

  The Purchasing Power data highlights regions where high numbers of potential buyers live. By concentrating your marketing efforts on these regions, you can generate better results, increase efficiency, and conserve resources.

• The chief data source used for the compilation of the purchasing power figures is each country's distribution of income-information obtained through an analysis of official tax statistics. In the case of countries for which this kind of information is only partially or not at all available, other factors are considered, such as data on demographics, the workforce, unemployment figures, etc.

  In the case of countries without official population statistics at the level of postcodes, population data is calculated. Area-based projections are being avoided as much as possible. The calculation of highly accurate purchasing power figures is possible using mathematical formulas that have been refined over the course of many years.

• At the 5-digit postal code level, there are 8,174 areas in this dataset.

• Spotzi's geomarketing tool, Spotzi Profiling, effectively leverages this data. It provides in-depth insights into income and other characteristics, enabling personalized marketing for various customer segments.

  Together, the Disposable Income dataset and Spotzi tools create a potent resource, empowering marketers to comprehend disposable income trends and income distribution across different regions of the country, guiding improved planning and more intelligent selling techniques.

  How does it work?
  
  Location is key to our geomarketing platform. It serves as the means by which we can link more data to your customers' locations, extracting valuable insights from your customer data.

  With Customer Profiling, you can enrich your customer list in just a few steps with this dataset on disposable income, gaining deeper insights into your most valuable customers.

• Spotzi Targeting make excellent use of this data. Spotzi Targeting allows businesses to group people with similar locations and income levels, enabling the creation of ads that truly connect and result in better sales and returns on investment.

Germany gni per capita for 2023 was $53,970, a 0.11% decline from 2022.

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<li>Germany gni per capita for 2022 was <strong>$54,030</strong>, a <strong>3.8% increase</strong> from 2021.</li>
<li>Germany gni per capita for 2021 was <strong>$52,050</strong>, a <strong>8.51% increase</strong> from 2020.</li>
<li>Germany gni per capita for 2020 was <strong>$47,970</strong>, a <strong>2.91% decline</strong> from 2019.</li>
</ul>GNI per capita (formerly GNP per capita) is the gross national income, converted to U.S. dollars using the World Bank Atlas method, divided by the midyear population. GNI is the sum of value added by all resident producers plus any product taxes (less subsidies) not included in the valuation of output plus net receipts of primary income (compensation of employees and property income) from abroad. GNI, calculated in national currency, is usually converted to U.S. dollars at official exchange rates for comparisons across economies, although an alternative rate is used when the official exchange rate is judged to diverge by an exceptionally large margin from the rate actually applied in international transactions. To smooth fluctuations in prices and exchange rates, a special Atlas method of conversion is used by the World Bank. This applies a conversion factor that averages the exchange rate for a given year and the two preceding years, adjusted for differences in rates of inflation between the country, and through 2000, the G-5 countries (France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States). From 2001, these countries include the Euro area, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

This statistic shows the results of a survey conducted in Germany on the share of millennials among the population, broken down by their net income in 2021. That year, among millennials aged 26 to 31 years, 3.9 percent had no own income, while 7 percent earned less than 500 euros.

The statistic displays the share of private wealth that the richest ten percent of the population own in selected European countries as of 2014. The wealth concentration was highest in Austria and Germany, where the wealthiest 10 percent of households owned 62 and 60 percent of total value of private wealth, respectively.

In 2023, 225,000 individuals with net assets of at least 30 million U.S. dollars were residing in the United States, by far the highest number of any country. By comparison, China, which had the second highest number of ultra high net worth individuals (UHNWIs), had less than 100,000 individuals with assets amounting to 30 million U.S. dollars or more.Place of residence of ultra high net worth individuals The residency of almost half of the world’s ultra high net worth individuals in the United States explains the dominance of North America in regard to the number of ultra high net worth individuals by region. Hong Kong was the city with the most UHNWIs in 2022, followed by New York, London, and Los Angeles. Source of wealth and gender differences A majority of the world's UHNWIs are self-made. However, looking at billionaires, there is a clear difference between men and women; whereas a majority of billionaire men were self-made, a majority of the women had inherited their fortune.

Sudan GNI for 2023 was 47.60 billion US dollars, a 33.47% increase from 2022.

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<li>Sudan GNI for 2022 was <strong>35.66 billion US dollars</strong>, a <strong>19.41% increase</strong> from 2021.</li>
<li>Sudan GNI for 2021 was <strong>29.87 billion US dollars</strong>, a <strong>5.98% increase</strong> from 2020.</li>
<li>Sudan GNI for 2020 was <strong>28.18 billion US dollars</strong>, a <strong>14.37% decline</strong> from 2019.</li>
</ul>GNI (formerly GNP) is the sum of value added by all resident producers plus any product taxes (less subsidies) not included in the valuation of output plus net receipts of primary income (compensation of employees and property income) from abroad. Data are in current U.S. dollars. GNI, calculated in national currency, is usually converted to U.S. dollars at official exchange rates for comparisons across economies, although an alternative rate is used when the official exchange rate is judged to diverge by an exceptionally large margin from the rate actually applied in international transactions. To smooth fluctuations in prices and exchange rates, a special Atlas method of conversion is used by the World Bank. This applies a conversion factor that averages the exchange rate for a given year and the two preceding years, adjusted for differences in rates of inflation between the country, and through 2000, the G-5 countries (France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States). From 2001, these countries include the Euro area, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

In 2023, there were 577,000 German households with a household net income of under 500 euros per month. Approximately 18 percent of households had a monthly income of 5,000 euros and more. Disposable net income While at first glance the aforementioned monthly income may seem manageable, based on general German standards of living, it is worth noting that flexibility and expenditure depends on the number of people living in a household, or rather the number of earners in relation to that number. In the case of employed population members, what remains as disposable net income is influenced by various regular payments made by households after the already taxed salary arrives. These payments include, but are not limited to, rent, different types of insurance, repaying loans, fees for internet and mobile phone services. Food and housing When looking at private household spending in Germany, consistent patterns emerge. Housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuel made up the largest share and will increase even further in the coming months, followed by food, beverages, and tobacco.

Throughout the interwar period, Nazi leaders and propaganda repeatedly put forward the bogus claim that Jews owned up to 20 percent of all wealth in Germany, despite making up fewer than one percent of the population. At this time, Jews were used as a scapegoat for Germany's economic difficulties after the First World War and during the Great Depression, and the Nazis claimed that the Jews were lining their pockets at the expense of "Aryan" Germans. Unfortunately, there are no official figures for Jewish wealth in the 1930s, and emigration tax data only gives an insight into the finances of wealthier Jews. There are, however, a range of estimates from contemporary and more recent sources, which have been used to estimate the real share of German capital that was owned by Jews. Contemporary estimates At various points in the 1930s, the media, statistical office, and central bank all claimed that the combined wealth of German Jews was somewhere between two and 20 billion Reichsmarks (RM). While these three institutions were all state run under the Nazi regime, and despite their uncertainty, some of these estimates are still treated with consideration due to the credentials of the journalists, economists, and statisticians involved. Additionally, these figures were used with the purpose of identifying just how much money the state could take from the Jewish population, therefore it was of interest for the Nazi authorities to ascertain accurate figures, and not inflate estimates for propaganda purposes. Interestingly, the estimates from the Statistical office actually increased from 1933 to 1936, despite the fact that the state had already been seizing Jewish wealth and restricting Jewish business on a large scale since 1933; this has been attributed to the economic impact of the Great Depression. Modern estimates The estimates from Junz and Ritschl were published in 2002 and 2019 respectively, and used some of the contemporary estimates in their investigation, while taking many additional factors into account. These are now some of the most widely-cited estimates on this subject, with estimates of around 8-16 billion RM in 1933, five billion RM in 1936, and 4.4 billion RM in 1938. In Ritschl's 2019 paper, he then goes on to estimate the share of total German wealth owned by Jews; his results show that the Jewish share of private capital was slightly higher than the average, but was still very much in line with their population size.

As of 2023, the average annual wage of Germany was 48,301 euros per year, a growth of almost 6,000 Euros when compared with 2000. From 2000 until 2007, wages rose by less than a thousand euros, with wage growth accelerating mainly in the period after 2010. Comparisons with rest of the EU Within the European Union Luxembourg had an average annual salary of almost 80 thousand Euros, with Germany having an annual salary comparable to other large European Countries, such as the United Kingdom and France. In neighboring Poland, the average annual salary was just over 39 thousand U.S dollars, meaning that German’s earned, on average, 20 percent more than what their Polish counterparts did. German economy slowing in 2023 While Germany initially had one of the strongest recoveries from the 2008 financial crash and as of 2020 had the largest economy in Europe its economy has started to slow in recent years. For 2023 the German economy is contracted by 0.26 percent, and while 2024 marked a slight improvement, the expectations are that 2025 remains a year of slow growth.

The company EnBW Energie Baden Wuerttemberg AG ranked first based on net income among electric utilities in Germany in 2024. While EnBW's net income amounted to approximately 1.5 billion euros, the second-largest electric utility in Germany, Mvv Energie, had a net income of roughly 334 million euros. Both companies are headquartered in the German state of Baden-Württemberg.

The chemical company Linde was the number one leading global chemical company in a 2024 global ranking based on net income, with a net income of approximately 6.57 billion U.S. dollars. Air Products and Chemicals, headquartered in the United States, was ranked second, with a net income of 3.85 billion U.S. dollars. The significance of the global chemical industry The chemical industry is one of the most important foundations for the world’s economy as we know it. One of the primary undertakings of this industry is the transformation of raw materials into industrial chemical products, which are fundamental for other industrial sectors. The principle chemical products are polymers and plastics, which are responsible for nearly 80 percent of the industry’s production volume. Excluding the pharmaceutical sector, the global chemical industry's revenue amounts to nearly eight trillion U.S. dollars in 2022. Prominent national chemical industries: Germany and the United States Germany has an old and well-established chemical industry. Two of the largest chemical companies worldwide, BASF and Bayer, originated there. Although BASF's revenue generated in 2023 amounted to 69 billion euros, BASF had a net income of 225 million euros that year. Like Germany, the United States is home to many of the world's leading chemical producers. The ubiquitous U.S.-based chemical companies Dow and DuPont, which were joined in September 2017 in the formation of the chemical conglomerate DowDuPont, have since been spun-off again into individual companies with discreet focus areas.

Bayern Munich was the German Bundesliga club with the highest market value in the 2024/25 season. The record German champions boasted a squad valued at over 943 million euros.

This statistic shows the 20 countries with the highest trade surplus worldwide in 2023. In 2023, China was the country with the highest trade surplus with approximately 822.69 billion U.S. dollars. The leading trade nations Typically a trade surplus indicates a sign of economic success and a trade deficit indicates an economic weakness. However, if that were true, then the top four, China, Germany, Russia and Ireland, would be considered the best performing countries in the world. However, this would mean that the United States, Great Britain, India and France would be among the weakest nations considering that they are four countries with the highest trade deficit. In fact, they are leading industrial nations. While China is known for producing and exporting products at a competitive price, it has undervalued its exchange rate in order to promote exports. However, China is now working to reduce its reliance on exports even though they continue to export large and increasing quantities of goods. In the case of Germany, the value of the euro may not be high enough, however growth concerning the value of exports has slowed over the past few years. In contrast, the value of the dollar in the United States may be too high, favoring imports as opposed to exports.