{"id":21601,"date":"2023-11-17T23:56:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T15:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/blog\/us\/?p=21601"},"modified":"2025-10-01T11:30:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T03:30:26","slug":"global-stock-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/blog\/us\/2023\/11\/17\/global-stock-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"Global stock markets performance comparision over the past 30 years in a table"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" 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class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/blog\/us\/2023\/11\/17\/global-stock-markets\/#Global_stock_markets_performance_comparison_table\" >Global stock markets&#8217; performance comparison table<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/blog\/us\/2023\/11\/17\/global-stock-markets\/#Highlights_from_the_table_above\" >Highlights from the table above<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/blog\/us\/2023\/11\/17\/global-stock-markets\/#Relative_articles\" >Relative articles<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Global_stock_markets_performance_comparison_table\"><\/span>Global stock markets&#8217; performance comparison table<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>Country<\/td><td>Country&#8217;s large-cap index <\/td><td>Country&#8217;s average GDP growth (2013-2021)<\/td><td>Stock market returns in past 10 years<\/td><td>Stock market returns in past 20 years<\/td><td>Stock market returns in past 30 years<\/td><td>Stock market IRR in past 30 years<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>U.S.<\/td><td>S&amp;P 500 index<\/td><td>2.027%<\/td><td>125.35%<\/td><td>298.40%<\/td><td>893.56%<\/td><td>7.96%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>China<\/td><td>Shanghai Composite Index<\/td><td>6.556%<\/td><td>57.15%<\/td><td>123.93%<\/td><td>355.73%<\/td><td>5.19%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Japan<\/td><td>Nikkei Index <\/td><td>0.473%<\/td><td>117.92%<\/td><td>185.37%<\/td><td>61.05%<\/td><td>1.6%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Hong Kong<\/td><td>Seng Index<\/td><td>1.701%<\/td><td>-20.26%<\/td><td>51.45%<\/td><td>119.14%<\/td><td>2.65%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>India<\/td><td>Bombay Sensitive 30 Index <\/td><td>5.622%<\/td><td>156.81%<\/td><td>1221.29%<\/td><td>1486.42%<\/td><td>9.65%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>U.K.<\/td><td> FTSE 100 Index <\/td><td>1.488%<\/td><td>8.00%<\/td><td>65.91%<\/td><td>134.01%<\/td><td>2.87%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Germany<\/td><td>DAX index<\/td><td>1.122%<\/td><td>59.99%<\/td><td>299.84%<\/td><td>666.27%<\/td><td>7.02%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>France<\/td><td>CAC 40 index<\/td><td>1.026%<\/td><td>64.24%<\/td><td>95.19%<\/td><td>272.79%<\/td><td>4.49%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>South Korea<\/td><td>Korea Composite Index <\/td><td>3.057%<\/td><td>26.00%<\/td><td>237.24%<\/td><td>32.51%<\/td><td>0.96%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Taiwan<\/td><td>Taiwan Weighted Index <\/td><td>3.293%<\/td><td>75.48%<\/td><td>188.23%<\/td><td>146.73%<\/td><td>3.06%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Singapore<\/td><td>Straits Times Index<\/td><td>3.131%<\/td><td>-6.41%<\/td><td>52.43%<\/td><td>40.62%<\/td><td>1.15%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Brazil<\/td><td>Brazil Index<\/td><td>0.156%<\/td><td>107.81%<\/td><td>190.06%<\/td><td>599.81%<\/td><td>6.7%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Indonesia<\/td><td>Jakarta Composite Index<\/td><td>4.151%<\/td><td>33.96%<\/td><td>784.34%<\/td><td>1388.51%<\/td><td>9.42%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Vietnam<\/td><td>Ho Chi Minh Stock Market Index<\/td><td>5.829%<\/td><td>94.22%<\/td><td>366.47%<\/td><td>1031.48%<\/td><td>8.42%<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Table 1 &#8211; The performance of the world&#8217;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; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the GDP data comes from the IMF<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" 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