Uglobal Immigration Magazine Volume 1, Issue 1 | Page 80

79 CBI INDUSTRY TRENDS | 投资移民行业趋势 2018 Offshore Wealth for Selected Countries 离岸资产 % of GDP 占GDP的百分比 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% World Average: 9.8% | 世界平均值 0 韩 波 国 兰 中 国 伊 美 意 印 巴 日 朗 爱 西 大 俄 墨 国 奥 芬 度 挪 加 瑞 西 澳 泰 班 丹 兰 本 尔 利 罗 西 地 印 哥 拿 典 威 国 牙 大 麦 兰 斯 哥 利 荷 南 度 大 伦 利 兰 非 尼 比 亚 西 亚 亚 Source | 数据来源: AJZ, 2017a. 法 国 德 国 英 国 土 比 耳 葡 利 其 萄 时 牙 台 希 湾 腊 阿 根 俄 沙 廷 罗 特 斯 阿 拉 伯 阿 联 委 酋 内 瑞 拉 offshore wealth varies from 2–4 percentage points of GDP in Korea, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Japan and China, around 35 percent in Greece and Argentina and up to 40-70 percent in Russia 12 , Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and United Arab Emirates. the increasing global mobility of high net worth individuals across countries and cities, and the growing importance of personal wealth that is maintained offshore, say outside the countries where that wealth was generated, a trend more marked for unstable and/or unequal countries. It is interesting to note that countries traditionally subject to bouts of economic and financial volatility and where inequality has been on the rise in recent years such as Argentina, Greece, Russia and Venezuela appear with rather high ratios of offshore wealth to GDP in comparison to more stable and less unequal nations. The wealthy elite has incentives to circulate internationally across countries and cities where their families can find a high quality of life and their assets are better protected. Th