Developed market

In investing, a developed market is a country that is most developed in terms of its economy and capital markets. The country must be high income, but this also includes openness to foreign ownership, ease of capital movement, and efficiency of market institutions. This term is contrasted with developing market ( Emerging markets and frontier markets are types of developing markets.)

As of 2016, Dow Jones classifies the following 25 countries as developed markets:

FTSE Group, a provider of economic and financial data, assigns the market status of countries as Developed, Advanced Emerging, Secondary Emerging or Frontier on the basis of their economic size, wealth, quality of markets, depth of markets, breadth of markets. As of 29 January 2016, FTSE Group has classified 26 countries as developed markets:

Developed countries all have met criteria under the following categories

As of February 2015, MSCI classified the following 26 countries as developed markets:

These are the countries used in the MSCI World index.

As of August 2015, Russell Investments considers the following 24 countries developed markets:

As of January 2016, Standard and Poor's classifies the following 25 countries as developed markets:

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