Stocks, insurance, pensions

Time interval

1960-2021


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Stocks, insurance, pensions-English fields Stocks, insurance, pensions-Chinese fields Indicator description
Country/Area Country
Code Code
ContinentCode Continental Plate Code
Year Year
Stock market capitalization as percent of GDP Stock market capitalization as a percentage of GDP Definition: Market capitalization (also known as market value) is the share price times the number of shares outstanding (including their several classes) for listed domestic companies. Investment funds, unit trusts, and companies whose only business goal is to hold shares of other listed companies are excluded. Data are end of year values.
Stock market capitalization, billion USD Stock market capitalization, $1 billion Definition: Market capitalization (also known as market value) is the share price times the number of shares outstanding (including their several classes) for listed domestic companies. Investment funds, unit trusts, and companies whose only business goal is to hold shares of other listed companies are excluded. Data are end of year values.
Stock market turnover ratio Stock market transaction rate Definition: Turnover ratio is the value of domestic shares traded divided by their market capitalization. The value is annualized by multiplying the monthly average by 12.
Number of companies listed on the stock exchange Number of companies listed on stock exchanges Definition: Listed domestic companies, including foreign companies which are exclusively listed, are those which have shares listed on an exchange at the end of the year. Investment funds, unit trusts, and companies whose only business goal is to hold shares of other listed companies, such as holding companies and investment companies, regardless of their legal status, are excluded. A company with several classes of shares is counted once. Only companies admitted to listing on the exchange are included.
Stock market value traded, percent of GDP Stock market trading volume, % of GDP Definition: The value of shares traded is the total number of shares traded, both domestic and foreign, multiplied by their respective matching prices. Figures are single counted (only one side of the transaction is considered). Companies admitted to listing and admitted to trading are included in the data. Data are end of year values.
Stock market return, percent Stock market return, percentage Definition: Stock market return is the growth rate of annual average stock market index. Annual average stock market index is constructed by taking the average of the daily stock market indexes available at Bloomberg.
Stock market capitalization w/o top 10 firms, percent of total market cap Excluding the stock market capitalization of the top 10 companies, as a percentage of the total market capitalization Definition: Value of listed shares outside of the top ten largest companies to total value of all listed shares.
Stock market value traded w/o top 10 firms, % of total value traded Excluding the stock market transaction value of the top 10 companies, as a percentage of the total transaction value Definition: Value of all traded shares outside of the top ten largest traded companies as a share of total value of all traded shares in a stock market exchange. WFE provides data on the exchange level. This variable is aggregated up to the country level by taking a simple average over exchanges.
Stock price volatility, percent Share price volatility, percentage Definition: The stock price volatility index is the 360-day standard deviation of the return on the national stock market index.
Mutual fund assets, percent of GDP Mutual fund assets, % of GDP Definition: Ratio of assets of mutual funds to GDP. A mutual fund is a type of managed collective investment scheme that pools money from many investors to purchase securities. Data taken from a variety of sources such as Investment Company Institute and national sources .
Life insurance premium volume, percent of GDP Life insurance premiums as a percentage of GDP Definition: Ratio of life insurance premium volume to GDP. Premium volume is the insurer's direct premiums earned (if Property/Casualty) or received (if Life/Health) during the previous calendar year. Premium data are taken from various issues of Sigma reports (Swiss Re). Data on GDP in US dollars is from the electronic version of the World Development Indicators.
Non-life insurance premium volume, percent of GDP Non-life insurance premiums as a percentage of GDP Definition: Ratio of non-life insurance premium volume to GDP. Premium volume is the insurer's direct premiums earned (if Property/Casualty) or received (if Life/Health) during the previous calendar year. Premium data are taken from various issues of Sigma reports (Swiss Re). Data on GDP in US dollars is from the electronic version of the World Development Indicators.
Pension fund assets as percent of GDP Pension fund assets as a percentage of GDP Definition: Ratio of assets of pension funds to GDP. A pension fund is any plan, fund, or scheme that provides retirement income. Data taken from a variety of sources such as OECD, AIOS, FIAP and national sources.
Insurance company assets, percent of GDP Insurance company assets as a percentage of GDP Definition: Ratio of assets of insurance companies to GDP. Data taken from a variety of sources such as AXCO and national sources.
Nonbank financial institutions assets, percent of GDP Assets of non-bank financial institutions as a percentage of GDP Definition: ...Claims on domestic real nonfinancial sector by other financial institutions as a share of GDP, calculated using the following deflation method: {(0.5)*[Ft/P_et + Ft-1/P_et-1]} /[GDPt/P_at] where F is other financial institutions' claims, P_e is end-of period CPI, and P_a is average annual CPI. Raw data are from the IMF's International Financial Statistics.

Sample data

Country/Area Code ContinentCode Year Stock market capitalization as percent of GDP Stock market capitalization, billion USD Stock market turnover ratio Number of companies listed on the stock exchange Stock market value traded, percent of GDP Stock market return, percent Stock market capitalization w/o top 10 firms, percent of total market cap Stock market value traded w/o top 10 firms, % of total value traded Stock price volatility, percent Mutual fund assets, percent of GDP Life insurance premium volume, percent of GDP Non-life insurance premium volume, percent of GDP Pension fund assets as percent of GDP Insurance company assets, percent of GDP Nonbank financial institutions assets, percent of GDP
Country Code Continental Plate Code Year Stock market capitalization as a percentage of GDP Stock market capitalization, billions of dollars Stock market transaction rate Number of companies listed on stock exchanges Stock market trading volume, % of GDP Stock market return, percentage Excluding the stock market capitalization of the top 10 companies, as a percentage of the total market capitalization Excluding the stock market transaction value of the top 10 companies, as a percentage of the total transaction value Share price volatility, percentage Mutual fund assets, % of GDP Life insurance premiums as a percentage of GDP Non-life insurance premiums as a percentage of GDP Pension fund assets as a percentage of GDP Insurance company assets as a percentage of GDP Assets of non-bank financial institutions as a percentage of GDP
Albania ALB EU 1994 0.49
Albania ALB EU 1995 0.49
Albania ALB EU 1996 0.44
Albania ALB EU 1997 0 0.35
Albania ALB EU 1998 0 0.38
Albania ALB EU 1999 0 0.4
Albania ALB EU 2000 0 0.38
Albania ALB EU 2001 0.03 0.48
Albania ALB EU 2002 0.05 0.56
Albania ALB EU 2003 0.01 0.52
Albania ALB EU 2004 0.02 0.52 1.14
Albania ALB EU 2005 0.03 0.45
Albania ALB EU 2006 0.03 0.46 1.31
Albania ALB EU 2007 0.04 0.55 0 1.38
Albania ALB EU 2008 0.05 0.58 0.01 1.44
Albania ALB EU 2009 0.01 0.06 0.59 0.02 1.42 1.34
Albania ALB EU 2010 0.01 0.07 0.55 0.03 1.46 1.65
Albania ALB EU 2011 0.08 0.49 0.01 1.49 1.77
Albania ALB EU 2012 1.21 0.06 0.56 0.02 1.53 2.91
Albania ALB EU 2013 3.74 0.07 0.51 0.03 1.62 5.43
Albania ALB EU 2014 4.57 0.07 0.7 0.04 1.75 6.11
Albania ALB EU 2015 4.67 0.07 0.83 0.06 1.92 6.14
Albania ALB EU 2016 4.46 0.06 0.89 0.09 2 5.72
Albania ALB EU 2017 4.7 0.08 0.88 0.11 1.97 6.11
Albania ALB EU 2018 4.16 0.07 0.89 0.14 1.93 5.94
Albania ALB EU 2019 3.97 0.07 0.9 0.17 2.29 6.22
Albania ALB EU 2020 4.18 0.07 0.89 0.22 2.4 6.57
Albania ALB EU 2021 6.55
Algeria DZA AF 1992 0.02 0.67
Algeria DZA AF 1993 0.03 0.65
Algeria DZA AF 1994 0.03 0.62
Algeria DZA AF 1995 0.03 0.63
Algeria DZA AF 1996 0.03 0.56
Algeria DZA AF 1997 0.03 0.54
Algeria DZA AF 1998 0.03 0.54
Algeria DZA AF 1999 0.57 0.28 0.02 0.5
Algeria DZA AF 2000 0.52 0.29 0.03 0.43 1.33
Algeria DZA AF 2001 0.35 0.19 0.02 0.49 1.31 0.05
Algeria DZA AF 2002 0.24 0.14 0.03 0.62 0.12
Algeria DZA AF 2003 0.21 0.14 0.02 0.57 0.19
Algeria DZA AF 2004 0.16 0.14 0.03 0.55 0.18
Algeria DZA AF 2005 0.14 0.14 0.03 0.52 0.13
Algeria DZA AF 2006 0.08 0.09 0.03 0.51 0.76 0.33
Algeria DZA AF 2007 0.07 0.1 0.04 0.54 0.83 0.55
Algeria DZA AF 2008 0.05 0.09 0.05 0.57 0.45
Algeria DZA AF 2009 0.07 0.09 0.06 0.72 1.1 0.43
Algeria DZA AF 2010 0.07 0.11 0.06 0.62 1.15 0.53
Algeria DZA AF 2011 0.1 0.2 0.05 0.55 1.14 0.32
Algeria DZA AF 2012 0.08 0.17 0.04 0.57 1.11 0.24

Data update frequency

Annual Update