Exchanges
Ranked by year-to-date index return in local currency; exchanges that publish no index return sit unranked at the end. Africa has more than twenty stock exchanges, and these are the 6 with reliable public price data today. For the five whose exchanges publish no price history of their own, this site holds a bought daily series — Gaborone reaching back to July 1995, Lagos to May 2000, Abidjan to January 2007, Kampala and Blantyre to July 2011.
NGX
- NGX All-Share Index
- 239,156.09
- Day
- +0.20%
- Market cap
- —
- Listings
- 147
West Africa’s largest exchange by listing count. Banking and consumer goods dominate turnover; foreign investors face FX repatriation friction that has eased since the 2023 naira float.
TRANSCOHOT · ZENITHBANK · GTCO
JSE
- All Share Index
- 116,806.20
- Day
- -0.01%
- Market cap
- —
- Listings
- 439
Africa’s deepest and most liquid market, and the only one most global funds can trade at size. Home to dual-listed miners and Naspers/Prosus.
EGX
- EGX 30 Price Return Index
- 55,106.50
- Day
- -0.31%
- Market cap
- —
- Listings
- 43
One of the oldest exchanges in the region and among the most liquid in Africa. Returns have been dominated by the pound’s repeated devaluations rather than by earnings.
BRVM
- Index
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- Day
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- Market cap
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- Listings
- 47
A single regional exchange serving eight francophone West African countries. The CFA franc’s euro peg removes the currency volatility that dogs most African markets.
BSE
- Index
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- Day
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- Market cap
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- Listings
- 29
Small, stable, and unusually well governed. Dominated by banks and the domestic listing of diamond-linked businesses.
USE
- Index
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- Day
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- Market cap
- —
- Listings
- 21
A handful of local listings plus cross-listed Kenyan companies. Trading days can pass with almost no volume.