The Best Performing International ETFs over the Last 10 Years

Updated as of: September 12, 2025

Advisors often look beyond domestic borders for portfolio diversification opportunities and attractive equity valuations in other countries. While the U.S. stock market is currently valued around a staggering $60 trillion, it accounts for only half of the world’s market capitalization. 

International investing helps advisors’ clients gain exposure to the other half of total worldwide market capitalization, and ETFs enable convenient access to a basket of underlying equities in a specific country, region, or ex-US as a whole through a single investment vehicle.

This article contains the best-performing international ETFs from the last year all the way back to the past decade, with data routinely updated by YCharts.

To create this list, we analyzed the entire ETF universe using the YCharts Fund Screener to find the best-performing international equity ETFs that are US-domiciled on a 1-year, 3-year, 5-year, and 10-year basis. (ETFs with leveraged or inverse attributes as well as those in the alternative currency strategy and options arbitrage strategy peer groups were excluded to focus on long-term investment vehicles that align with broader financial planning goals)

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• Best-Performing International ETFs in the Last Year
• Best-Performing International ETFs in the Last 3 Years
• Best-Performing International ETFs in the Last 5 Years
• Best-Performing International ETFs in the Last 10 Years
• What Was the Growth of $10,000 Over the Last 10 Years?

Best Performing International ETFs in the Last Year

These are the top-performing international ETFs over the past year, as of August 31, 2025.

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Best Performing International ETFs in the Last 3 Years

These are the top-performing international ETFs on an annualized basis between September 1st, 2022 and August 31, 2025.

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Best Performing International ETFs in the Last 5 Years

These are the top-performing international ETFs on an annualized basis between September 1, 2020 and August 31, 2025.

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Best Performing International ETFs in the Last 10 Years

These are the top-performing ETFs on an annualized basis between September 1, 2015 and August 31, 2025.

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What Was the Growth of $10,000 in the Top International ETFs Over the Last 10 Years?

The best-performing international ETF in the last 10 years was the Global X MSCI Argentina ETF (ARGT). A $10,000 investment into this Argentina-focused ETF 10 years ago would be worth nearly $50K today on a total return basis.

Right behind ARGY was the iShares Global 100 ETF (IOO); investing $10,000 into IOO back in 2015 would’ve turned into $39,160 with dividend reinvestment. Despite its international focus, IOO has moved mostly in tandem with the S&P 500 over that time period due to a nearly 50% holdings overlap between IOO and SPY.

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