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Subject: Share ownership in emerging markets
Category: Business and Money > Consulting
Asked by: chipongwe-ga
List Price: $100.00
Posted: 05 Jul 2005 06:31 PDT
Expires: 04 Aug 2005 06:31 PDT
Question ID: 540083
I need to know for a selection of first world (10 countries) and
emerging market countries (10 countries) as measured by GDP per
capita how many individuals own shares listed on the respective stock
exchanges in each market. The most up to date information is desirable
as is the total population in each country and the latest recorded GDP
per capita. If these statistics are available for African countries
this is worth a bonus. If the nos of individuals are not known then
possibly the mix between institutional share ownership and individual
share ownership by value.
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Subject: Re: Share ownership in emerging markets
Answered By: vercingatorix-ga on 03 Aug 2005 12:01 PDT
 
Your question is challenging, not only because the information is not
all in one place, but because the phrase ?institutional investor? can
mean many things. The raw data you seek regarding the number of
shareholders is not available for most exchanges. However, I have
collected market-share data for individual and institutional investors
for a number of countries.

Stock exchanges are not required to release this information, and many
do not. Those that do disclose the information use drastically
different formats. Because of the differences in data presentation, I
had to take some liberties with the information and shoehorn some
exchanges into categories they did not use in their own disclosure.
However, I believe I captured the spirit of the shareholder breakdown.

When government ownership was available, I listed it. When corporate
ownership was available, I listed it. I listed individual ownership,
which for some countries like Japan considers only Japanese
individuals. When foreign ownership was available, I listed it.
Remember, countries that report foreign ownership probably underreport
institutional, corporate, and individual ownership, because all three
foreign groups probably own stock. But if you read it under
international, it means no breakdown was available. Pretty much
everything else is lumped into institutional. If you see a blank, that
does not mean 0%, it simply means that the country did not report any
of that kind of ownership. For instance, China?s Shenzhen Exchange
reports no corporate or government ownership, but lumps everything
into institutional.

There was some overlap on the numbers, and sums that round to more or
less than 100%, and I let this stand. Many of the corporate owners are
also institutions. Some of the countries broke it out easily, but some
included corporate institutional investors under both corporate and
institutional. For instance, Portugal reported 81% corporate
ownership, 8% government ownership, and 15% institutional ownership.
The logical reason is that some of the corporate institutions were
double-counted. Please understand that hard-and-fast data is simply
not available for most of the developing countries, and many of the
numbers are estimates. They?re based on detailed survey data, and the
estimates are of high quality, but they are estimates nonetheless.

The data is as current as I can find, but in some cases, that?s not
very current. The GDP information is taken from the CIA Factbook, and
the year is listed in the spreadsheet. All populations are estimates
as of July 2005. As for the stock-ownership information, I?ve listed
the year from which the data is drawn. I used nothing older than 2002.
I collected most of the information about developed countries from
http://www.fibv.com/WFE/home.asp?action=document&menu=266&nav=ie,
which provides market data from a number of countries.

I got most of the data on developing nations from the 2002 study at
http://home.business.utah.edu/~finkvl/LinsJFQA8_502.pdf. This study
cites several others that suggest block ownership accounts for most of
the stock ownership in developing countries. As such, I?ve provided
you with block-ownership data for a variety of emerging economies,
broken down by who owns the blocks.

On average, individuals own about 1% of the stock in the markets cited
in the study above, most of which are low-GDP markets. Government and
management ownership tends to be very high. Both individual and
institutional (traditionally considered pension funds, investment
companies, etc.) ownership in most developed countries is much higher,
though institutional ownership is increasing steadily as a percentage
of the market, particularly in Europe.

The market statistics are listed below, but you were also interested
in GDP and population information for African countries. Below the
market data is a list of African countries, with 2005 populations
estimates and the most current per-capita GDP available. All
information is taken from the CIA Factbook.

Country	GDP Per Capita	GDP
Date	Population	Corporate	Government	Foreign	Institutional	Individuals	Other	Year
of Data
										
										
Indonesia	$3,500	2004 est.	241,973,879	84%	7%		2%	8%	0%	2002 Study
Sri Lanka	$4,000	2004 est.	20,064,776	85%	0%		14%	0%	0%	2002 Study
Philippines	$5,000	2004 est.	87,857,473	89%	9%		6%	0%	0%	2002 Study
Peru	$5,600	2004 est.	27,925,628	90%	0%		10%	0%	0%	2002 Study
China -- Shenzhen Exchange	$5,600	2004 est.	1,306,313,812			3%	64%	34%		???
Turkey	$7,400	2004 est.	69,660,559	75%	18%		4%	0%	4%	2002 Study
Thailand	$8,100	2004 est.	64,185,502	19%	11%		47%	23%		2003
Brazil	$8,100	2004 est.	186,112,794	3%		26%	50%	21%		2002
World	$8,800	2004 est.	6,446,131,400							
Malaysia	$9,700	2004 est.	23,953,136	80%	13%		8%	0%	0%	2002 Study
Chile	$10,700	2004 est.	15,980,912	96%	0%		7%	0%	0%	2002 Study
South Africa	$11,100	2004 est.	44,344,136	73%	0%		26%	1%	0%	2002 Study
Argentina	$12,400	2004 est.	39,537,943	100%	0%		0%	0%	0%	2002 Study
Czech Republic	$16,800	2004 est.	10,241,138	100%	0%		10%	0%	0%	2002 Study
Portugal	$17,900	2004 est.	10,566,212	81%	8%		15%	0%	0%	2002 Study
South Korea	$19,200	2004 est.	48,640,671	18%	4%	40%	17%	21%		2004
Israel	$20,800	2004 est.	6,276,883	40%	5%	8%	12%	36%		2003
Taiwan	$25,300	2004 est.	22,894,384	92%	3%		2%	1%	2%	2002 Study
Singapore	$27,800	2004 est.	4,425,720	76%	12%		11%	0%	1%	2002 Study
Sweden	$28,400	2004 est.	9,001,774	10%	9%	34%	31%	17%		2002
Japan	$29,400	2004 est.	127,417,244	22%		24%	34%	20%		
Australia	$30,700	2004 est.	20,090,437	3%		40%	35%	22%		2004
Australia	$30,700	2004 est.	20,090,437	3%		40%	35%	22%		2004
Denmark	$32,200	2004 est.	5,432,335	29%	6%		47%	18%	0%	2003
Hong Kong	$34,200	2004 est.	6,898,686	96%	1%		2%	0%	1%	2002 Study
Norway	$40,000	2004 est.	4,593,041	24%	5%	10%	11%	50%	0%	2003

The CIA Factbook has population data
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/rankorder/2119rank.html
and GDP per capita data
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/rankorder/2004rank.html
for the following African countries:

Country	GDP Per Capita	GDP Date	Population
			
Algeria	$6,600	2004 est.	32,531,853
Angola	$2,100	2004 est.	11,827,315
Benin	$1,200	2004 est.	7,649,360
Botswana	$9,200	2004 est.	1,640,115
Burkina Faso	$1,200	2004 est.	13,491,736
Burundi	$600	2004 est.	7,795,426
South Africa	$11,100	2004 est.	44,344,136
Cameroon	$1,900	2004 est.	16,988,132
Cape Verde	$1,400	2002 est.	418,224
Central African Republic	$1,100	2004 est.	4,237,703
Chad	$1,600	2004 est.	9,657,069
Comoros	$700	2002 est.	671,247
Congo, Democratic Republic of the	$700	2004 est.	60,764,490
Congo, Republic of the	$800	2004 est.	3,602,269
Djibouti	$1,300	2002 est.	476,703
Equatorial Guinea	$2,700	2002 est.	529,034
Eritrea	$900	2004 est.	4,669,638
Ethiopia	$800	2004 est.	73,053,286
Gabon	$5,900	2004 est.	1,394,307
Gambia, The	$1,800	2004 est.	1,595,086
Ghana	$2,300	2004 est.	21,946,247
Guinea	$2,100	2004 est.	9,452,670
Guinea-Bissau	$700	2004 est.	1,413,446
Kenya	$1,100	2004 est.	33,829,590
Lesotho	$3,200	2004 est.	2,031,348
Liberia	$900	2004 est.	2,900,269
Libya	$6,700	2004 est.	5,765,563
Madagascar	$800	2004 est.	18,040,341
Malawi	$600	2004 est.	12,707,464
Mali	$900	2004 est.	11,415,261
Mauritania	$1,800	2004 est.	3,086,859
Mauritius	$12,800	2004 est.	1,230,602
Mayotte	$2,600	2003 est.	193,633
Morocco	$4,200	2004 est.	32,725,847
Mozambique	$1,200	2004 est.	19,406,703
Namibia	$7,300	2004 est.	2,030,692
Niger	$900	2004 est.	12,162,856
Nigeria	$1,000	2004 est.	128,765,768
Reunion	$6,000	2004 est.	776,948
Rwanda	$1,300	2004 est.	8,440,820
Sao Tome and Principe	$1,200	2003 est.	187,410
Senegal	$1,700	2004 est.	11,706,498
Seychelles	$7,800	2002 est.	81,188
Sierra Leone	$600	2004 est.	5,867,426
Somalia	$600	2004 est.	8,591,629
Sudan	$1,900	2004 est.	40,187,486
Swaziland	$5,100	2004 est.	1,138,227
Tanzania	$700	2004 est.	36,766,356
Togo	$1,600	2004 est.	5,399,991
Tunisia	$7,100	2004 est.	10,074,951
Uganda	$1,500	2004 est.	27,269,482
Zambia	$900	2004 est.	11,261,795
Zimbabwe	$1,900	2004 est.	12,160,782

I hope this aids you in your research,

V


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