Household wealth in 'frozen' assets: real estate + deposits
Share of total household assets parked in real estate and bank deposits — capital that does not flow into productive markets. Korea and China lock up the most; the US the least, with Singapore in between.
Source: Federal Reserve (Z.1), Statistics Korea (Survey of Household Finances), SingStat (Household Sector Balance Sheet), DGBAS Taiwan, Bank of Japan (Flow of Funds) · Cabinet Office, China Household Finance Survey · PBOC · last checked 2026-06-14
'Frozen capital' = real estate + bank deposits, as a share of total household assets. A latest-available snapshot (US 2024, Korea 2024, Japan 2024, Taiwan 2023, Singapore 2026, China ~2022); classification and base year differ by country, so read it as indicative, not an exact ranking. China and Japan's real-estate share is a range estimate (marked approximate). Data coverage: among Southeast Asia, only Singapore publishes a citable household balance sheet. Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines are not shown because no official household asset-composition breakdown is published for them — gaps are left blank, never estimated. No US/Asia map because the map covers Asia only.
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