19. Kuwait. Total Wealth in 2021: $545 bn. The State of Kuwait, located in Western Asia, is an emirate in the Persian Gulf and an Arab state, with Islam being its official religion.

Still, we can at least state with certainty that the largest continent by both land area and population is Asia, which is made up of 48 countries and three dependencies and split into five regions.

From the perspective of the U.S. and most Western countries, Asia isn’t really considered to be very expensive, because it is mainly home to developing economies where the cost of living isn’t ...