Japan has 2nd biggest and UK is third but China and Russia trail behind

Japan has 2nd biggest and UK is third but China and Russia trail behind

A stock market world map reveals that the US dominates the globe's market capitalisation - while China and Russia are left trailing behind.

USA's financial market has now ballooned to $19.7 trillion in shares - the biggest it’s been since the 1980s, covering 52 per cent of the world’s market.

The rest of the world trails behind the US, with Japan the second biggest country on the market map with $3trillion and the UK in third with $2.7trillion, reported Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

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A stock market world map reveals dominates the globe's market capitalisation while China and Russia are left trailing behind

USA's financial market has ballooned to $19.7 trillion in shares - the biggest it’s been since the 1980s, covering 52 per cent of the world’s market capitalisation (file picture)

But while America's market is stronger than ever, it has been a different story in China where economic growth has slowed dramatically.

The country is dwarfed by Japan and even looks relatively small compared to South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong in terms of market capital.

Economic growth in China slowed from 7.8 per cent in 2012 to 7.7 per cent in 2013 with fears that the country's gross domestic product (GDP) could slow down further.

Since June 12 this year, the benchmark Shanghai Composite has already shed 27 per cent prompting the panicked government to pledge to underpin the flagging Chinese economy and a further crackdown by the markets watchdog to halt the slump.

But stocks continued to fall and last month was down more than 14 per cent for the whole of July.

The US has such a dominate share of the world's market capital, that individual states can rival the GDP of whole countries

Analyst fear that a slowdown in China’s growth could have a ripple effect on the whole of the global economy.

Russia has also struggled with a difficult year which saw its currency and stock market plummet.

The Russian economy started stagnating in 2013. And with the combination of the 2014 sanctions over the Ukraine and collapsing oil prices saw growth in Russia grind to a halt with the government forced to cut its budget by 10 percent across the board, except for defense.

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In terms of geography, Russia is the largest country in the world. The whole of the USA could fit into the country almost twice, while an area the size of Japan could fit in 45 times.

However, on the stock market map Russia is a blip around the same size as Finland.

At $135billion, it has the same share of the market as US computer firm Intel.

Energy company Chevron has the equivalent of Mexico's share at $169billion and internet streaming service Netflix, at $45billion has the same as Chile.

The crisis-hit economy of Greece has just $14bilion - the same as Expedia.

The US has such a dominate share of the world's market capital, that individual states can rival the GDP of whole countries.

In a second map, California is shown to have the GDP of the entire of Brazil while New York produces the same as the country of Spain.