Vanguard Emerging Markets Stock Index Fund Transitions to New FTSE Index

³ China A-shares make up about 9.4% of world stock market capitalization, second-largest after the U.S. stock markets. With the world's second-largest GDP, China also accounted for 13.3% of world GDP in 2014, according to Bloomberg WCAP.

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