Twenty-three bourses are currently operating in Africa, and their combined market capitalization has soared from $245 billion in 2002 to $1 trillion (2% of the world total) at the end of 2009 – as high as the fifteenth-largest stock exchange in the world.
L’Afrique compte aujourd’hui 23 Bourses et leur capitalisation boursière combinée est passée de 245 milliards de dollars en 2002 à mille milliard de dollars (2 pour cent du total mondial) à la fin 2009 – soit l’équivalent de la quinzième place financière mondiale.