Stock price volatility - Country rankings
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Stock price volatility, percent, 2017 - Country rankings:
The average for 2017 based on 86 countries was 14.66 percent.The highest value was in Venezuela: 45.49 percent and the lowest value was in Botswana: 3.38 percent. The indicator is available from 1960 to 2017. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.Measure: percent; Source: Global Financial Development Database
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Definition: The stock price volatility index is the 360-day standard deviation of the return on the national stock market index.
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