High net worth individuals in selected European countries 2013-2019
"High net worth individuals" (HNWI) in financial services and private wealth management industries signifies persons, whose investible assets (stocks, bonds etc.) exceed a specific given amount. In the case of the underlying report, the threshold minimum defined for these figures was at least one million U.S. dollars in financial assets.
During the period displayed, the number of HNWI's across Europe has seen a general increase. There were approximately 1.47 million high net worth individuals living in Germany as of 2019, an annual increase of nine percent. The highest annual change in the countries included was seen in Switzerland, which saw the number of HNWI's increase by 14 percent between 2018 and 2019.