The report is divided into four parts. The first part presents the overall composition of wealth and trends in wealth accounts; the second part describes the new work on assets and the efforts to incorporate risk management into these accounts; the third part applies wealth accounts to specific policy issues. The final part discusses how future Changing Wealth of Nations reports can address the remaining missing natural capital—renewable energy and water—as well as development of accounts for social capital to complement our monetary accounts.
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I. Global, Regional and Country Trends in Wealth, 1995 to 2018
Chapter 1. The Wealth of Nations
Chapter 2. How Wealth Is Measured: Basic Approach and New Developments
Chapter 3. Global and Regional Trends in Wealth from 1995 to 2018
Chapter 4. Valuing Wealth Using Purchasing Power Parities
II. Measuring Comprehensive Wealth: New Work on Natural Capital and Human Capital
Chapter 5. Land Accounts, Climate Change and Degradation Impacts
Chapter 6. Blue Natural Capital: Mangroves and Fisheries
Chapter 7. Human Capital: Global Trends and the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Chapter 8. Impact of Air Pollution on Human Capital
III. Applying Wealth Accounts for Policy Analysis
Chapter 9. The Nonrenewable Wealth of Nations
Chapter 10. Low-Carbon Transition, Stranded Fossil Fuel Assets, Border Carbon Adjustments, and International Cooperation
Chapter 11. Wealth Accounting, Diversification, and Macrofiscal Management
Chapter 13. Natural Allies: Wealth and Sovereign Environment, Social, and Governance Frameworks
IV. New Developments in Measuring Wealth
Chapter 14. Renewable Energy: Unaccounted Wealth of Nations
Chapter 15. Social Capital and the Changing Wealth of Nations
Appendix A. Summary of Methodology and Data Sources
Appendix B. Per Capita Wealth for 2018