Nikkei 225 ^N225

Index · Japan · home metro · compare against everything else

15,170 tracked days · 1965-01-05 to 2026-09-17 · refreshed daily

Latest
63,925
2026-09-17
1-year
+42.7%
from 44,790
5-year
+110%
from 30,500 in 2021
Annualised
+6.6%
+3.9% real · a year since 1965
2026-09-17 — 63,925 · +4983% from 1965
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Record high 72,366 on 2026-06-25; lowest close 1,020 on 1965-07-12. Since 1965 the level is up 50.8× in points; in 2025 money it is 10.5×, or +3.9% a year after inflation.

About this series

Closing levels, one point per trading day. Yahoo Finance chart API. Index levels are price returns in local currency, so they exclude dividends and are not adjusted for exchange rates: a chart of the Nikkei against the S&P compares two different things in two different currencies. They are quoted nominally by default, with a Real toggle that deflates by Japan CPI (World Bank FP.CPI.TOTL, US series extended to 1913 from the BLS via FRED) and expresses the whole history in 2025 money. Inflation data is annual, so the deflator is interpolated between mid-year points, and the real view begins in 1960, where that CPI record starts. None of this is investment advice; all of it is geography with a time axis.