Signal Household wealth growth accelerated to 7.3% in 2025 from a 5.9% long-run average

Summary

MGI reports that global household wealth grew 7.3 percent in 2025, faster than the 5.9 percent annual average recorded since 2000. The increase amounted to about $40 trillion in a single year, taking household net worth to roughly $570 trillion, compared with about $130 trillion in 2000. The composition of that growth shifted sharply, with equity accounting for 57 percent of new household wealth and real estate only 15 percent, whereas property had driven more than half of growth on average since 2000. The report also finds that only 20 percent of the 2025 increase rested on net new investment, while nearly 60 percent came from asset prices rising faster than inflation and related paper gains. Faster growth, in other words, did not mean healthier growth.