In October, the Dow Jones Industrial Average peaked at 26,952, the highest point on record for the stock index.
The DJIA is a price-weighted average of 30 large American companies. The index currently contains companies such as the world’s largest retailer Walmart, media juggernaut Disney, global financial institution J.P. Morgan, aerospace and defense giant Boeing, and as of 2015, tech behemoth Apple.
The companies comprising the Dow change over time to reflect the changing economy. Since the creator of the index, Charles Dow, was also the founding editor of The Wall Street Journal, editors at the publication select the companies that comprise the index.
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Since its inception in 1896, when only 12 companies were included in the average, the Dow has changed only 50 times. The last remaining company from the original list of 12, General Electric, was removed in June. It was replaced with drugstore chain Walgreens Boots Alliance.
To determine the value of the Dow Jones Industrial Average the year you were born, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed daily Dow figures aggregated by economic research website Macrotrends.net. Historical Dow data are inflation-adjusted using annual headline CPI in chained 2018 dollars.
1929
• Start: 4,452.4
• End: 3,603.6
• High: 5,527.9
• Change: -19.1 percent
1930
• Start: 3,632.7
• End: 2,448.3
• High: 4,374.6
• Change: -32.6 percent
1931
• Start: 2,770.4
• End: 1,270.7
• High: 3,170.4
• Change: -54.1 percent
1932
• Start: 1,357.1
• End: 1,089.9
• High: 1,614.6
• Change: -19.7 percent
1933
• Start: 1,136.5
• End: 1,915.0
• High: 2,083.1
• Change: +68.5 percent
1934
• Start: 1,862.0
• End: 1,930.3
• High: 2,054.6
• Change: +3.7 percent
1935
• Start: 1,891.0
• End: 2,607.9
• High: 2,685.9
• Change: +37.9 percent
1936
• Start: 2,583.4
• End: 3,224.6
• High: 3,314.2
• Change: +24.8 percent
1937
• Start: 3,088.4
• End: 2,090.7
• High: 3,363.1
• Change: -32.3 percent
1938
• Start: 2,125.8
• End: 2,728.7
• High: 2,793.0
• Change: +28.4 percent
1939
• Start: 2,747.9
• End: 2,687.1
• High: 2,788.7
• Change: -2.2 percent
1940
• Start: 2,681.4
• End: 2,321.9
• High: 2,705.6
• Change: -13.4 percent
1941
• Start: 2,202.1
• End: 1,871.4
• High: 2,253.1
• Change: -15.0 percent
1942
• Start: 1,718.7
• End: 1,819.8
• High: 1,824.5
• Change: +5.9 percent
1943
• Start: 1,722.2
• End: 1,951.4
• High: 2,094.0
• Change: +13.3 percent
1944
• Start: 1,918.5
• End: 2,150.0
• High: 2,153.0
• Change: +12.1 percent
1945
• Start: 2,105.8
• End: 2,662.5
• High: 2,702.6
• Change: +26.4 percent
1946
• Start: 2,436.7
• End: 2,252.9
• High: 2,701.7
• Change: -7.5 percent
1947
• Start: 1,961.5
• End: 2,014.6
• High: 2,077.8
• Change: +2.7 percent
1948
• Start: 1,867.8
• End: 1,829.2
• High: 1,992.8
• Change: -2.1 percent
1949
• Start: 1,823.2
• End: 2,084.6
• High: 2,088.7
• Change: +14.3 percent
1950
• Start: 2,051.9
• End: 2,428.7
• High: 2,429.3
• Change: +18.4 percent
1951
• Start: 2,294.2
• End: 2,574.5
• High: 2,642.7
• Change: +12.2 percent
1952
• Start: 2,525.1
• End: 2,731.3
• High: 2,732.3
• Change: +8.2 percent
1953
• Start: 2,713.1
• End: 2,608.7
• High: 2,728.4
• Change: -3.8 percent
1954
• Start: 2,614.5
• End: 3,737.4
• High: 3,737.4
• Change: +42.9 percent
1955
• Start: 3,793.1
• End: 4,530.7
• High: 4,530.7
• Change: +19.4 percent
1956
• Start: 4,440.1
• End: 4,565.2
• High: 4,762.5
• Change: +2.8 percent
1957
• Start: 4,377.6
• End: 3,845.0
• High: 4,595.9
• Change: -12.2 percent
1958
• Start: 3,773.4
• End: 5,013.7
• High: 5,013.7
• Change: +32.9 percent
1959
• Start: 5,006.0
• End: 5,787.8
• High: 5,787.8
• Change: +15.6 percent
1960
• Start: 5,695.4
• End: 5,165.6
• High: 5,749.2
• Change: -9.3 percent
1961
• Start: 5,067.0
• End: 6,070.7
• High: 6,102.0
• Change: +19.8 percent
1962
• Start: 5,949.7
• End: 5,353.6
• High: 5,960.4
• Change: -10.0 percent
1963
• Start: 5,247.6
• End: 6,190.0
• High: 6,224.6
• Change: +18.0 percent
1964
• Start: 6,133.3
• End: 6,998.4
• High: 7,139.1
• Change: +14.1 percent
1965
• Start: 6,846.6
• End: 7,629.7
• High: 7,629.7
• Change: +11.4 percent
1966
• Start: 7,412.6
• End: 6,013.2
• High: 7,616.3
• Change: -18.9 percent
1967
• Start: 5,849.3
• End: 6,732.2
• High: 7,014.6
• Change: +15.1 percent
1968
• Start: 6,473.7
• End: 6,737.2
• High: 7,033.2
• Change: +4.1 percent
1969
• Start: 6,420.6
• End: 5,422.2
• High: 6,563.7
• Change: -15.5 percent
1970
• Start: 5,175.8
• End: 5,365.9
• High: 5,385.6
• Change: +3.7 percent
1971
• Start: 5,093.5
• End: 5,459.2
• High: 5,830.9
• Change: +7.2 percent
1972
• Start: 5,279.0
• End: 6,055.0
• High: 6,151.5
• Change: +14.7 percent
1973
• Start: 5,766.0
• End: 4,755.4
• High: 5,877.9
• Change: -17.5 percent
1974
• Start: 4,307.4
• End: 3,103.4
• High: 4,490.5
• Change: -28.0 percent
1975
• Start: 2,916.4
• End: 3,933.2
• High: 4,068.9
• Change: +34.9 percent
1976
• Start: 3,746.5
• End: 4,383.3
• High: 4,427.5
• Change: +17.0 percent
1977
• Start: 4,097.8
• End: 3,406.8
• High: 4,097.8
• Change: -16.9 percent
1978
• Start: 3,114.8
• End: 3,066.4
• High: 3,457.7
• Change: -1.6 percent
1979
• Start: 2,777.7
• End: 2,871.3
• High: 3,072.8
• Change: +3.4 percent
1980
• Start: 2,486.6
• End: 2,907.1
• High: 3,016.2
• Change: +16.9 percent
1981
• Start: 2,657.7
• End: 2,390.6
• High: 2,797.8
• Change: -10.1 percent
1982
• Start: 2,272.0
• End: 2,694.2
• High: 2,756.0
• Change: +18.6 percent
1983
• Start: 2,561.7
• End: 3,139.4
• High: 3,210.6
• Change: +22.6 percent
1984
• Start: 2,995.4
• End: 2,896.9
• High: 3,076.4
• Change: -3.3 percent
1985
• Start: 2,768.0
• End: 3,571.0
• High: 3,585.8
• Change: +29.0 percent
1986
• Start: 3,485.6
• End: 4,297.5
• High: 4,432.7
• Change: +23.3 percent
1987
• Start: 4,214.8
• End: 4,240.0
• High: 5,953.6
• Change: +0.6 percent
1988
• Start: 4,232.0
• End: 4,554.0
• High: 4,585.3
• Change: +7.6 percent
1989
• Start: 4,296.7
• End: 5,515.9
• High: 5,592.5
• Change: +28.4 percent
1990
• Start: 5,341.4
• End: 5,005.9
• High: 5,701.8
• Change: -6.3 percent
1991
• Start: 4,761.8
• End: 5,780.0
• High: 5,780.0
• Change: +21.4 percent
1992
• Start: 5,617.4
• End: 5,845.3
• High: 6,043.7
• Change: +4.1 percent
1993
• Start: 5,689.3
• End: 6,454.2
• High: 6,523.3
• Change: +13.4 percent
1994
• Start: 6,297.2
• End: 6,427.7
• High: 6,669.0
• Change: +2.1 percent
1995
• Start: 6,257.2
• End: 8,341.5
• High: 8,503.4
• Change: +33.3 percent
1996
• Start: 8,197.8
• End: 10,209.9
• High: 10,388.3
• Change: +24.5 percent
1997
• Start: 9,972.0
• End: 12,240.8
• High: 12,784.1
• Change: +22.8 percent
1998
• Start: 12,139.5
• End: 13,993.5
• High: 14,287.4
• Change: +15.3 percent
1999
• Start: 13,695.3
• End: 17,144.2
• High: 17,144.2
• Change: +25.2 percent
2000
• Start: 16,385.2
• End: 15,563.6
• High: 16,912.5
• Change: -5.0 percent
2001
• Start: 14,934.0
• End: 14,057.9
• High: 15,904.4
• Change: -5.9 percent
2002
• Start: 13,910.6
• End: 11,519.2
• High: 14,686.5
• Change: -17.2 percent
2003
• Start: 11,621.5
• End: 14,114.4
• High: 14,114.4
• Change: +21.5 percent
2004
• Start: 13,690.4
• End: 14,181.1
• High: 14,275.2
• Change: +3.6 percent
2005
• Start: 13,648.2
• End: 13,633.1
• High: 13,916.8
• Change: -0.1 percent
2006
• Start: 13,367.1
• End: 15,358.2
• High: 15,416.6
• Change: +14.9 percent
2007
• Start: 14,946.6
• End: 15,893.5
• High: 16,971.5
• Change: +6.3 percent
2008
• Start: 15,051.1
• End: 10,126.8
• High: 15,067.5
• Change: -32.7 percent
2009
• Start: 10,461.8
• End: 12,075.3
• High: 12,214.8
• Change: +15.4 percent
2010
• Start: 12,058.0
• End: 13,189.9
• High: 13,198.9
• Change: +9.4 percent
2011
• Start: 12,889.4
• End: 13,493.4
• High: 14,148.3
• Change: +4.7 percent
2012
• Start: 13,414.6
• End: 14,179.4
• High: 14,726.9
• Change: +5.7 percent
2013
• Start: 14,303.2
• End: 17,677.4
• High: 17,677.4
• Change: +23.6 percent
2014
• Start: 17,253.1
• End: 18,703.1
• High: 18,945.1
• Change: +8.4 percent
2015
• Start: 18,691.4
• End: 18,263.8
• High: 19,193.9
• Change: -2.3 percent
2016
• Start: 17,750.5
• End: 20,455.8
• High: 20,675.3
• Change: +15.2 percent
2017
• Start: 20,150.2
• End: 25,052.9
• High: 25,172.8
• Change: +24.3 percent
2018
• Start: 24,824.0
• End: 23,327.5
• High: 26,828.4
• Change: -6.0 percent
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