Szövetkezeti év konferencia sorozat This is the first statistical analysis to compare co-operative and conventional business ownership worldwide.
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Executive Summary
This is the first statistical analysis to compare
co-operative and conventional business
ownership worldwide.
The report analyses the number of people who have an ownership
stake of co-operative enterprise together with those who have an
ownership stake through company shares.
The findings are that:
• There are three times as many member owners of
co-operatives as individual shareholders worldwide. There are
328 million people who own shares, compared to 1 billion who
are member owners of co-operative enterprises.
• There are three countries with over half the population in
co-operative membership and are all in Europe. These are
Ireland (70%), Finland (60%) and Austria (59%).
• The countries with the most significant numbers of people in
co-operative membership, however, are predominantly in Asia
and the Americas. These are India (242 million), China (160
million) and the USA (120 million).
• One in five people across the Americas, North and South, are a
member of a co-operative.
• Only 7% of the world population lives in countries that do not
have stock markets.
• In Africa, one in thirteen people is a member of a co-operative
and there are six times as many co-operative owners as there
are shareholders.
• The country with the widest shareholder ownership across
its population is Japan (31%). In Japan, this has doubled over
the past two decades, whereas in the UK, individual share
ownership, compared to other institutional investors, has halved.
• In the fast-growing BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and
China), there are four times as many co-operative members as
direct shareholders. 15% of their population are co-operative
members, compared to only 3.8% who are shareholders.
Filippo Addarii
Executive Director
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