Stock market capitalization in US dollars — all countries

Stock market capitalization in US dollars — Sub-Saharan Africa

Stock market capitalization in US dollars in Sub-Saharan Africa in 2020 — 1,169,989,050,000 US$. Since 1993, the indicator has risen by 424.3%.

2020 1.17T US$ +0.3% vs 2019
World rank
Period maximum 1.17T US$2020
Period minimum 188B US$1998

Trend over time

1993–2020 · US$

Stock market capitalization in US dollars — Sub-Saharan Africa, 1993–20200500B1T1.5T19931996199920022005200820112014201720201993: 223,152,230,000 US$1994: 271,273,280,000 US$1995: 293,735,740,000 US$1996: 264,413,670,000 US$1997: 250,928,520,000 US$1998: 188,338,670,000 US$1999: 271,133,580,000 US$2019: 1,166,463,080,000 US$2020: 1,169,989,050,000 US$
Change over the period: +947B (+424.3%) Average annual rate: 6.33 %

Comparison, 2020

How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: Sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa 1.17T US$
World 94.97T US$
Stock market capitalization in US dollars — Sub-Saharan Africa, by year Sub-Saharan Africa All countries CSV XLSX
Year US$ Change Change, %
2020 1.17T +3.53B +0.3%
2019 1.17T
1999 271B +82.79B +43.96%
1998 188B −62.59B −24.94%
1997 251B −13.49B −5.1%
1996 264B −29.32B −9.98%
1995 294B +22.46B +8.28%
1994 271B +48.12B +21.56%
1993 223B

About the indicator

The market value of all domestic companies whose shares are quoted on the country's exchanges, at the end of the year. The indicator measures not the size of the economy but the size of the public capital market: among countries with comparable GDP, capitalization differs several times over, because in some places companies raise money through the exchange and in others through banks or from the state. Foreign companies traded on the local exchange are not included.

Important: There are about 140 territories with data — the rest have no exchange, and that is the absence of the phenomenon rather than a gap: their contribution to world capitalization is zero, so aggregates for country groups are computed at a lowered coverage threshold.

Source: World Development Indicators (World Bank), license CC BY 4.0.