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The global ETF industry
An ETF is a fund that trades on an exchange like a share. You buy one line, you own a slice of whatever the fund holds. That's the whole idea, and it's not a complicated one, but it has quietly become the default way most people in the world own the stock market. Which makes the size of the industry worth knowing, even if you never buy one.
This page is the scale of that. Global ETF assets hit a record $21.91 trillion at the end of April 2026, spread across 16,605 funds and 32,401 listings, run by 1,004 providers, trading on 86 exchanges in 66 countries. Three of those thousand providers hold 59% of the money. And the industry has now gone 83 straight months without a single month of net outflows, which is close to seven years, covering the 2020 crash and the 2022 bear market on the way.
I built this page because ETF numbers get quoted loosely, and two of them in particular get mixed up. Funds and listings are not the same thing, and treating them as the same doubles the size of the universe. The whole thing rests on one source, ETFGI, dated end of April 2026 and linked at the bottom. One source means one set of definitions, which is tidy, and it also means you're taking one house's word for it. Worth clicking through.
Global ETF assets reached a record $21.91 trillion at the end of April 2026, across 16,605 ETFs with 32,401 listings from 1,004 providers on 86 exchanges in 66 countries. The industry took in $856.4 billion in the first four months of 2026 alone and has now recorded 83 consecutive months of net inflows. Three providers hold 59% of everything: iShares at $6.06 trillion, Vanguard at $4.69 trillion and State Street SPDR at $2.16 trillion.
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