Nifty 50 Returns Calculator
Real NIFTY 50 returns for all 30 years from 1996 to 2025. See what a one-time or yearly investment would actually be worth today, based on the index's real year-by-year performance rather than an assumed rate.
30-Year CAGR
11.8%
1996 to 2025, price return
Best Year
+75.8%
2009
Worst Year
-51.8%
2008
Positive Years
23 of 30
7 years were negative
Investment Type
A single investment made at the start of the chosen year.
Held until the end of 2025. This uses the actual year-by-year returns of the NIFTY 50, not an assumed rate.
Total Invested
₹1.00 L
Value Today
₹3.15 L
End of 2025
Total Gain
₹2.15 L
Annualised Return
11.0%
Over 11 years
₹1,00,000 invested in the NIFTY 50 at the start of 2015 would be worth ₹3.15 L at the end of 2025, an absolute return of 215%.
NIFTY 50 Calendar-Year Returns (1996 to 2025)
Green bars are positive years, red bars are negative years. Price returns.
Year-by-Year Data
This tool uses actual historical NIFTY 50 price-index returns. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Index returns do not include dividends, fund expenses or taxes, and you cannot invest directly in an index.
How to read this data
The NIFTY 50 is India's benchmark index of 50 large companies. Over the 30 years from 1996 to 2025 it returned about 11.8% a year as a price index, but the path was far from smooth. A single year ranged from a fall of around 52% to a gain of more than 76%. This is the central lesson of the data: equity rewards patience, and short-term swings are normal. The longer the holding period, the more the year-to-year noise tends to average out toward the long-run rate.