The global economy is hard to wrap your head around, because it's an impossible-to-fathom amount of money, and the markets have tripled since 2003. As of 2023, all of the stock markets, in every country, are worth $109 trillion dollars.
Visual Capitalist gathered data from the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) and the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA), and turned it into a handy dandy pie chart, visualizing which economies are bigger than others.
Key Findings:
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The US leads the world in stock market value, making up 42.5 percent of the global equity capitalization, and is bigger than the next closest economy, the entire European Union, by a whopping 31.4 percent.
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Goldman Sachs projects that by 2030, America's equity market capitalization will fall to 35 percent of the global share. Over the same timespan, both China and India are collectively expected to reach the 35 percent mark, which could grow to 47 percent by 2050.
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It's estimated that if you had invested $100 in the S&P 500 in 1990, then it would be worth around $2,000 in 2023.
Via Visual Capitalist.
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