Mean: about +22% Median: about +35% Median within the poorest 25% of households: +900% (!)
With so much wealth at the too, average is going to be pulled up even when there are many with relatively near zero.
Note: The discussion was on savings. Abstracting that from individual wealth adds cognitive load.
Isn't that because most of that "wealth" is from inflated prices of houses? Over 50% of germans rent so over the median point, in US only 34%.
A lot of this is related to differences in (a) rate of home ownership, and general structure of the housing market, and (b) how pensions work. There's some messiness, but in general these measures of wealth don't account for defined benefit pensions (ie a pension where you get X$, inflation adjusted, per month until you die) very well.
The median is the relatively ugly picture.
The average American has invested a lot in housing and equities, both of which have soared over the past 20-30 years.
The average wealth per adult in the US is ~$550,000. That's just behind Luxembourg for #2 in the world (led by Switzerland at $685,000). That's a shocking average figure for a nation with 250+ million adults. It's closing in on double that of Sweden, and it's 2/3 higher than the UK or France. It's well over double that of Germany. It's also far higher than very affluent Norway. The US Gini figure is also lower than Sweden now (Sweden has become one of the most unbalanced affluent societies due to their horribly failed immigration integration over the past decade or so).
If you're American, you definitely want to be average (or above), not median.
How about the median wealth per adult? ~$107,000 for the US. That's above Austria, Germany, Sweden, Finland, Japan, Singapore, Spain, Italy. And it's below the Netherlands, France, Canada, Norway, UK, etc.
Germany's median wealth per adult is a mere $66,000. They should be asking some serious questions. Greece is at $53,000 and Portugal is at $70,000 for refence. The UK is up at $151,000, with France and Canada around the $135,000 area.