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