Photographs: Yuya Shino/Reuters.
Amid the volatile markets across the world, these 20 stock markets delivered good returns in 2013, according to CNN Money.
Take a look at the world's 20 best stock markets...
Japan
Rank: 1
Year-to-date gain: 34%
Benchmark index year-to-date performance as of April 24, 2013
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World's 20 best performing stock markets
Image: Investors view stock exchange information at the Dubai Financial Market.Photographs: Mosab Omar/Reuters.
United Arab Emirates
Rank: 2
Year-to-date gain: 28%
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World's 20 best performing stock markets
Image: A money exchange in Buenos Aires, Argentina.Photographs: Marcos Brindicci/Reuters.
Argentina
Rank: 3
Year-to-date gain: 27%
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World's 20 best performing stock markets
Image: Kuwait Stock Exchange.Photographs: Stephanie McGehee/Reuters.
Kuwait
Rank: 4
Year-to-date gain: 23%
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World's 20 best performing stock markets
Image: A trader at the Philippines stock exchange as business is halted.Photographs: Cheryl Ravelo/Reuters.
Philippines
Rank: 5
Year-to-date gain: 20%
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World's 20 best performing stock markets
Image: Brokers work on the trading floor of the Nigerian stock exchange in the commercial capital Lagos.Photographs: Akintunde Akinleye/Reuters.
Rank: 6
Year-to-date gain: 19%
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World's 20 best performing stock markets
Image: Taxi drivers waited for customers in the diamond mining town of Letlhakane, Botswana.Photographs: Reuters.
Botswana
Rank: 7
Year-to-date gain: 16%
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World's 20 best performing stock markets
Image: A display at the Zurich stock exchange.Photographs: Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters.
Switzerland
Rank: 8
Year-to-date gain: 16%
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World's 20 best performing stock markets
Image: Traders stand near a screen showing the Indonesia Stock Exchange Composite Index during the first day of trading in Jakarta.Photographs: Reuters.
Indonesia
Rank: 9
Year-to-date gain: 16%
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World's 20 best performing stock markets
Image: Cooperative Bank's treasurer Caroline Mugadi works in the trading room in Kenya's capital Nairobi.Photographs: Antony Njuguna/Reuters.
Kenya
Rank: 10
Year-to-date gain: 15%
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World's 20 best performing stock markets
Image: Employees work on an assembly line at a shoe factory in Tan Lap village, outside Hanoi.Photographs: Kham/Reuters.
Vietnam
Rank: 11
Year-to-date gain: 15%
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World's 20 best performing stock markets
Photographs: Reuters.
Ireland
Rank: 12
Year-to-date gain: 15%
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World's 20 best performing stock markets
Image: Bulgaria Stock Exchange.Photographs: Reuters.
Bulgaria
Rank: 13
Year-to-date gain: 15%
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World's 20 best performing stock markets
Image: Icelandic stock exchange in Reikjavik.Photographs: Thorvaldur Orn Kristmundsson/Reuters.
Iceland
Rank: 14
Year-to-date gain: 14%
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World's 20 best performing stock markets
Image: An investor sits in front of an electronic board displaying live market data at a stockbroker's office in central Bangkok.Photographs: Reuters.
Thailand
Rank: 15
Year-to-date gain: 13%
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World's 20 best performing stock markets
Image: Dagmar Kleinert, manager of OMX Tallinn Stock Exchange works in office in Tallinn.Photographs: Ints Kalnins/Reuters.
Estonia
Rank: 16
Year-to-date gain: 13%
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World's 20 best performing stock markets
Image: Luka Brajdica, Rijeka.Photographs: Roberta F/Wikimedia Commons.
Croatia
Rank: 17
Year-to-date gain: 12%
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World's 20 best performing stock markets
Image: Karachi Stock Exchange.Photographs: Reuters.
Pakistan
Rank: 18
Year-to-date gain: 12%
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World's 20 best performing stock markets
Photographs: Reuters.
New Zealand
Rank: 19
Year-to-date gain: 12%
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World's 20 best performing stock markets
Image: Traders work at the post that trades H.J. Heinz Co. on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.Photographs: Brendan McDermid/Reuters.
United States
Rank: 20
Year-to-date gain: 11%
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