Global stock markets’ performance comparison table
| Country | Country’s large-cap index | Country’s average GDP growth (2013-2021) | Stock market returns in past 10 years | Stock market returns in past 20 years | Stock market returns in past 30 years |
| U.S. | S&P 500 index | 2.027% | 125.35% | 298.40% | 893.56% |
| China | Shanghai Composite Index | 6.556% | 57.15% | 123.93% | 355.73% |
| Japan | Nikkei Index | 0.473% | 117.92% | 185.37% | 61.05% |
| Hong Kong | Seng Index | 1.701% | -20.26% | 51.45% | 119.14% |
| India | Bombay Sensitive 30 Index | 5.622% | 156.81% | 1221.29% | 1486.42% |
| U.K. | FTSE 100 Index | 1.488% | 8.00% | 65.91% | 134.01% |
| Germany | DAX index | 1.122% | 59.99% | 299.84% | 666.27% |
| France | CAC 40 index | 1.026% | 64.24% | 95.19% | 272.79% |
| South Korea | Korea Composite Index | 3.057% | 26.00% | 237.24% | 32.51% |
| Taiwan | Taiwan Weighted Index | 3.293% | 75.48% | 188.23% | 146.73% |
| Singapore | Straits Times Index | 3.131% | -6.41% | 52.43% | 40.62% |
| Brazil | Brazil Index | 0.156% | 107.81% | 190.06% | 599.81% |
| Indonesia | Jakarta Composite Index | 4.151% | 33.96% | 784.34% | 1388.51% |
| Vietnam | Ho Chi Minh Stock Market Index | 5.829% | 94.22% | 366.47% | 1031.48% |
Table 1 – The performance of the world’s major stock markets in the past 30 years (as of 7/9/2023, the stock market data comes from Google Finance and Yahoo Finance, and the stock market data of some developing countries that have not reached 30 years are expressed in 30 years; the GDP data comes from the IMF)
Highlights from the table above
- The U.S. stock market is the only developed country in the table that has consistently performed well in the past 30 years
- Indian stocks have had their best performance in the past 30 years
- Brazil, Indonesia, and Vietnam stock markets have also performed well in the past 30 years
- Stock markets in developed countries have generally underperformed over the past 30 years
- The stock markets in China, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, and Hong Kong in East Asia are stable, better than Europe, but much worse than those in developing countries such as the United States, India, Brazil, Indonesia, and Vietnam
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