Stock market size

The value of all listed domestic companies, as a share of GDP.

Market capitalisation is the value of all the shares of the companies listed on a country's stock exchanges, at the year's end, as a share of GDP. It says how large a role the stock market plays in financing companies: large in the United States, Switzerland and Hong Kong, small where companies borrow from banks instead. It also rises and falls with share prices. The World Bank compiles it from the World Federation of Exchanges.

• Economy
• Finance
• Stock markets
• Companies
• Country
• Year