S&P 500 Calendar Year Total Returns. At the bottom of this article, you'll find a table of historical annual stock market returns for the s&p 500 index for the period of 1980 to 2023. The s&p 500 (gspc) has returned 60.7% between 2021 and 2025.

Here’s how much the benchmark index has returned every year since 1928. The s&p 500 doesn’t increase.