Japan is the country with the largest net foreign assets…Actual situation of net foreign assets in the whole world (latest version as of 2022)

Wealth on a country-by-country basis is indicated by net foreign assets of a particular country to other countries, net of debts and credits. Based on the value published by the IMF, we will confirm the actual situation in the world as a whole.

Net foreign assets are the sum of foreign assets and foreign liabilities. As a rough explanation, it is "Assets: things that are lent overseas in various forms" and "Liabilities: things that are borrowed from overseas in various forms."

The following are the values ​​for countries whose net foreign assets can be confirmed in the IMF database, and those that have the latest available yearly figures for 2020, and those that do not have available figures for 2005. The top and bottom countries are extracted from a total of 174 countries applying the latest values ​​after 2019. As shown in the original data, the values ​​converted to US dollars are used. In the bottom row graph, the country with the most debt is on the left.

The United States has the largest net external debt in the world. Next is Spain, but the amount of the United States is too large and the graph is unbalanced. The difference between the United States and Spain is more than 10 times.

After Spain, England, France, Ireland, Australia, Mexico, Brazil and Turkey. Some countries are experiencing economic difficulties, and some people have the impression that this is the case.

On the other hand, it was Japan that had the largest net foreign assets, even after scrutinizing the whole world. Germany, Hong Kong and China follow. These four countries have over $2 trillion in net foreign assets. Followed by Norway, Netherlands, Canada and Singapore.

Since the bottom of each graph is minus $0.094 trillion and plus $0.091 trillion, the rest of the countries are between plus $0.090 trillion and minus $0.093 trillion.

This net foreign asset is the sum of public and private assets, and the asset portion cannot be immediately converted into cash. The addition of assets and liabilities when calculating net worth does not make much sense. Needless to say, it should be kept in mind that this is only an overview of the financial situation of individual countries, and that it is no more than reference material for seeking to improve the situation.

On the other hand, it must be unhealthy to emphasize only debts to arouse anxiety, or to present only assets to appeal the soundness. When there are such stories, the actual situation of net foreign assets in this case will be of great help.

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(Note) This article is a partial addition and change to the article published in [Garbage News].