"Figure 3: The largest positive contributions to the change in the overall asset rate of return came from Africa and Asia in 2018, compared with the North Americas and the EU in 2017","" "Contributions to the annual change in the total rate of return on UK assets by continent, weighted by share of UK assets per continent, 2011 to 2018","" "","" "Notes","1. The sum of the contributions will not necessarily equal the change in the total rate of return on UK assets because of rounding." "Unit","Percentage points" "","" "","Africa","Asia","Australasia and Oceania","EU","Non-EU Europe","North Americas","Central and South Americas","Total" "2011","-0.02","0.36","-0.40","0.51","0.04","0.24","-0.07","0.75" "2012","0.01","-0.09","0.12","-0.85","-0.29","-0.15","-0.42","-1.50" "2013","-0.12","-0.34","-0.10","0.18","0.01","-0.16","0.01","-0.33" "2014","-0.16","0.24","0.11","-0.28","-0.11","-0.28","-0.07","-0.49" "2015","-0.19","-0.30","-0.10","-0.09","0.02","-0.30","-0.07","-0.92" "2016","0.08","-0.22","-0.10","0.02","-0.02","-0.46","-0.09","-0.82" "2017","0.07","0.15","0.13","0.47","0.17","0.82","0.04","1.87" "2018","0.15","0.10","0.03","-0.04","-0.04","-0.06","0.02","0.21"