America's Stock Market Ranking In the World

This post compares the stock market performance of the United States to the rest of the world. We like to think we are Number One; the Wall Street Journal, the source of our data, may beg to differ:

Longer bars are better.

United States 2020 performance is ranked 13th of 37* stocks in the Wall Street Journal. Note that many countries above us have vastly different politics, policies and history. If nothing else, this can temper politician claims of superiority. 

*The Journal table actually includes 36 more countries with lower returns not listed here. Note that the above returns are in USD and local currency, country inflation may account for differences .

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