Offshore financial wealth is money held by households in countries other than where they reside, often in tax havens where it can escape domestic taxation and statistical measurement. This database tracks $13.3 trillion in offshore assets across 162 countries from 2001 to 2023, revealing the hidden geography of global wealth.
Explore the DataExplore how much wealth each country's residents hold offshore, in absolute terms or relative to GDP.
Total offshore financial wealth held worldwide, broken down by the financial center regions where it is deposited.
The tax havens and financial centers that attract the world's offshore deposits, ranked by total assets hosted.
Billions of USD in assets hosted
Evolution of major offshore hubs
Which countries' residents hold the most wealth offshore?
Understanding the hidden world of cross-border finance, made simple.
A person living in Country A accumulates financial assets such as bank deposits, securities, or fund shares.
These assets are deposited in a bank or financial institution located in a different country, often a tax haven like Switzerland, Luxembourg, or Singapore.
Because the assets are held abroad, they often do not appear in the home country's wealth statistics or tax records, creating a "statistical gap."
By comparing what banks report as liabilities (deposits by foreigners) with what countries report as assets held abroad, economists can estimate the total offshore wealth.
This visualization is based on cutting-edge research from the EU Tax Observatory.
Faye, Godar, Moura & Zucman (2025). "Global Offshore Wealth, 2001–2023." EU Tax Observatory / Paris School of Economics.
Access the underlying data files used in this visualization. All figures are in billions of US dollars unless otherwise noted.
A project of the EU Tax Observatory and the Paris School of Economics.