Global market cap by country in 2025 looks like a bar chart with one skyscraper and a row of houses. The US at $68.94T towers over China at $15.51T and India at $10.56T. Then Japan ($7.61T), then a long tail of everyone else.
The interesting stories live in the tail. Smaller markets compound quietly for years, then suddenly show up in the top movers. The only way to catch them is to watch year-over-year growth across all 104 countries, not just the headline five.
The EU aggregate is the quiet giant most free rankings skip entirely. WorldMarketStats includes it, along with BRICS, because bloc-level totals change how you think about diversification. One more column worth adding to any chart: market cap as % of GDP. Size tells you where capital sits. Depth tells you how financialized the economy is.
WorldMarketStats publishes the full 2025 table free. For the weekly version, CapitalDrift sends a free leaderboard of country market-cap movers every week, and the $10/mo plan adds rotation signals with overweight and underweight calls per country.
Bookmark the 2025 table, then come back monthly. The ranking barely moves. The movers list does.