Value of stocks traded
Annual value of shares traded as a percentage of GDP. Each transaction is counted once and can include domestic and foreign shares.
Exchanges used different methods to count trading activity before 2001, which limits historical comparisons. Compiled by WDI from the World Federation of Exchanges. The latest year varies by country.
Key facts
- Value of stocks traded in the World was 158.7% of GDP in 2025, according to the World Bank.
- Value of stocks traded in the United States was 180.3% of GDP in 2025, according to the World Bank.
- Hong Kong had the highest value of stocks traded of 76 countries in 2021, at 1,102.6% of GDP, and Armenia the lowest, at 0% of GDP. Source: the World Bank.
- Published for 106 places, with figures from 1990 to 2025.
Rankings
Countries by value of stocks traded, 2021
Places with data
World, EU and euro area
Countries
- India
- China
- United States
- Indonesia
- Pakistan
- Nigeria
- Brazil
- Bangladesh
- Russia
- Mexico
- Ireland
- Estonia
- Egypt
- Kenya
- Namibia
- Ecuador
Use this data in your AI agent
Invokely serves this figure to AI assistants through MCP and to code through a REST API, with the source and citation attached. Ask your assistant:
Which places have the highest value of stocks traded? Use official data and cite it.
rank_places {"indicator":"stocks_traded_gdp","level":"country"}
GET https://invokely.ai/api/v1/rank?indicator=stocks_traded_gdp&level=country