Assets minus liabilities.
Net worth
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Worked example
Take a household that owns a property worth Rs 1,00,00,000, holds Rs 25,00,000 in equity and mutual funds, Rs 8,00,000 in FDs and savings, Rs 15,00,000 across EPF, PPF, and NPS, and Rs 6,00,000 in gold and other assets. Total assets add up to Rs 1,54,00,000. Against this they owe Rs 45,00,000 on a home loan and Rs 6,00,000 across car and personal loans, so total liabilities are Rs 51,00,000. Net worth is assets minus liabilities, which is Rs 1,54,00,000 minus Rs 51,00,000, or Rs 1,03,00,000. A common pattern in India shows up here: property and gold together make up a large share of assets, so net worth is heavily tied to real estate. Tracking this figure once or twice a year shows whether you are genuinely building wealth or merely taking on more debt against rising asset values.
How it is calculated
Net worth is a simple subtraction: add up everything you own and subtract everything you owe. The calculator totals five asset buckets tuned to Indian households, namely property at current market value, equity and mutual funds, FD, RD and savings, retirement balances across EPF, PPF and NPS, and gold and other assets. It then totals two liability buckets, the outstanding home loan and the combined car, personal and other loans, and subtracts liabilities from assets. Use current market values rather than purchase prices, and enter the outstanding loan balance rather than the original sanction. The figure is a snapshot in time, so the most useful thing is to recompute it periodically and watch the trend. A net worth that rises mainly because of debt-funded assets is weaker than one growing from savings and investments.