Indian Stock Market Performance: 10 Years History

SENSEX and NIFTY, the benchmark indices of Indian stock market, has performed very well in last decade in spite of it's under performance in last 2 - 3 years. In 1998 the NIFTY index was at 884 which went to as high as 6138 in 2007 and then fell to 4624 level in 2011.

Just to summarize the absolute returns generated by the NIFTY index over the last decade, following is the year wise Index closing levels and return generated since 2001.

Year
NIFTY Closing
Return (%)
2001
1020
-15.8
2002
1094
7.3
2003
1880
71.8
2004
2071
10.2
2005
2805
35.4
2006
3970
41.5
2007
6138
54.6
2008
2857
-53.5
2009
5188
81.6
2010
5998
15.6
2011
4624
-22.9