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Value of stocks traded in South Africa

Value of stocks traded in South Africa was 66.5% of GDP in 2025, according to the World Bank. That is up 18.6 pts from 2024.

2025, % of GDP66.5
Change on 2024+18.6 pts
Series high124.42016
Series low4.91992

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Value of stocks traded in South Africa, 1990 to 2025

025507510012519901996200220082014202020251990: 6.5 % of GDP1991: 6 % of GDP1992: 4.9 % of GDP1993: 5.4 % of GDP1994: 8.7 % of GDP1995: 9.3 % of GDP1996: 16.3 % of GDP1997: 24.9 % of GDP1998: 35.5 % of GDP1999: 48.1 % of GDP2000: 46.5 % of GDP2001: 26.1 % of GDP2002: 36.9 % of GDP2003: 24.9 % of GDP2004: 32.7 % of GDP2005: 38.5 % of GDP2006: 57.2 % of GDP2007: 77.4 % of GDP2008: 64.1 % of GDP2009: 66 % of GDP2010: 66.4 % of GDP2011: 49.3 % of GDP2012: 52.2 % of GDP2013: 57.9 % of GDP2014: 64.5 % of GDP2015: 67.5 % of GDP2016: 124.4 % of GDP2017: 107.4 % of GDP2018: 72.8 % of GDP2019: 73.2 % of GDP2020: 86.9 % of GDP2021: 61.4 % of GDP2022: 57.4 % of GDP2023: 52.4 % of GDP2024: 47.9 % of GDP2025: 66.5 % of GDP
% of GDP. Source: World Bank, Stocks traded, total value (% of GDP) (CM.MKT.TRAD.GD.ZS). Retrieved 2026-10-12, published 2026-10-08.
All 36 values
Period% of GDP
202566.5
202447.9
202352.4
202257.4
202161.4
202086.9
201973.2
201872.8
2017107.4
2016124.4
201567.5
201464.5
201357.9
201252.2
201149.3
201066.4
200966
200864.1
200777.4
200657.2
200538.5
200432.7
200324.9
200236.9
200126.1
200046.5
199948.1
199835.5
199724.9
199616.3
19959.3
19948.7
19935.4
19924.9
19916
19906.5

Rankings

Definition

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.

How to cite

World Bank, World Development Indicators. Stocks traded, total value (% of GDP) (CM.MKT.TRAD.GD.ZS). https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/CM.MKT.TRAD.GD.ZS. Retrieved 2026-10-12. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

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APA 7

World Bank. (2026). Stocks traded, total value (% of GDP) (CM.MKT.TRAD.GD.ZS) (Value of stocks traded, South Africa, 1990 to 2025) [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/CM.MKT.TRAD.GD.ZS

MLA 9

Stocks traded, total value (% of GDP) (CM.MKT.TRAD.GD.ZS), Value of stocks traded, South Africa, 1990 to 2025. World Bank, 8 Oct. 2026, https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/CM.MKT.TRAD.GD.ZS. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/en/stocks-traded-gdp/south-africa. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

Chicago (author-date)

World Bank. 2026. Stocks traded, total value (% of GDP) (CM.MKT.TRAD.GD.ZS). Value of stocks traded, South Africa, 1990 to 2025. Dataset. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/CM.MKT.TRAD.GD.ZS. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/en/stocks-traded-gdp/south-africa.

Harvard

World Bank (2026) Stocks traded, total value (% of GDP) (CM.MKT.TRAD.GD.ZS), Value of stocks traded, South Africa, 1990 to 2025 [Dataset]. Available at: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/CM.MKT.TRAD.GD.ZS, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/en/stocks-traded-gdp/south-africa (Accessed: 12 October 2026).

BibTeX
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  title = {{Stocks traded, total value (\% of GDP) (CM.MKT.TRAD.GD.ZS): Value of stocks traded, South Africa, 1990 to 2025}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {Data set},
  url = {https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/CM.MKT.TRAD.GD.ZS},
  urldate = {2026-10-12},
  note = {Accessed via Invokely, https://invokely.ai/en/stocks-traded-gdp/south-africa. Publisher attribution: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Stocks traded, total value (\% of GDP) (CM.MKT.TRAD.GD.ZS). https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/CM.MKT.TRAD.GD.ZS. Retrieved 2026-10-12. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.},
}
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What is the value of stocks traded in South Africa?

Value of stocks traded in South Africa was 66.5% of GDP in 2025, according to the World Bank. That is up 18.6 pts from 2024.

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World Bank. Stocks traded, total value (% of GDP) (CM.MKT.TRAD.GD.ZS). Retrieved by Invokely on 2026-10-12.

What was the highest value of stocks traded in South Africa?

124.4% of GDP in 2016, the highest value since 1990 in this series.

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