Clients who move abroad can grow their networks and career prospects, boost their earning potential and maximize opportunities for their children, especially if they choose the right country.

The 2025 edition of the Henley Opportunity Index — published by Henley & Partners, which promotes investment migration — evaluates how combining high-quality private education with additional investment-based residence and citizenship rights creates major opportunity for the next generation.

“While studies confirm that tertiary graduates earn around 50% more than those with only secondary education, research also reveals that over two-thirds of income disparity worldwide is dictated by the country in which an individual lives and works,” Tess Wilkinson, director of Henley & Partners Education, said in a statement.

Families can transcend the constraints of where they were born through investment migration, she said. “By securing strategic residence or citizenship rights, individuals gain access to dynamic economies, high-growth industries and unparalleled career prospects — proving that in today’s world, where you live matters just as much as what you learn.”

The index evaluates the world’s top investment migration destinations across six key parameters:

  • Earning potential: Score is based on cumulative sum of 10-year salary projections, adjusted to inflation and wage growth rates
  • Career advancement: Score takes into account presence of leading global corporations, availability of top executive positions at prestigious organizations and percentage of the labor force with advanced education
  • Top-tier employment prospects: Score assesses likelihood of finding employment in highly reputable, established organizations and innovative companies in the destination country
  • Premium education: Score appraises countries based on efficacy of their private education systems, taking into account innovativeness, capacity and quality of education and opportunities for studying they provide
  • Economic mobility: The sum of national GDP shares of global GDP for each destination, including its own GDP, with a maximum possible score of 100, representing 100% of global GDP
  • High livability: Uses scores for private health care, quality of life, and safety and security, equally weighted, with focus on high- and ultra-high-net-worth investors

See the gallery for the top 10 destinations for wealthy families to live, work and educate their children, according to Henley & Partners.

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