The statistic shows the best years of the Dow Jones Industrial Average index from 1897 to 2023. The best year in the history of the index was 1915, when the index value increased by 81.66 percent to close at 99.15 points compared to 54.58 in the previous year.
Best years of Dow Jones Industrial Average index from 1897 to 2023
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