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The US loses only to Switzerland in mean wealth per capita, but ranks below even a country like Italy in median WPC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_pe...

Basically, the US 1% is much richer than other countries, but the typical American is probably less wealthy than someone in other developed countries.



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