OriginaveFTSE All-World High Dividend Yield Index
What the FTSE All-World High Dividend Yield Index is, where it lives officially, and how its ride has looked over the years.
What does the FTSE All-World High Dividend Yield Index track?
The roughly half of the FTSE All-World with the highest expected dividend yields — around 2,000 companies worldwide that pay out a bigger-than-average share of profits in cash.
The global cousin of the US dividend indexes: steady payers over fast growers. Because high-yield screens lean away from tech, it behaves very differently from the plain All-World.
Vanguard FTSE All-World High Dividend Yield UCITS ETF (Dist) (VGWD).Every figure here is in euros — what you'd actually pocket buying on Xetra. Fund fact sheets usually headline returns in US dollars, which can look very different: in 2025 a world tracker rose about 23% in dollars but only about 9% in euros, because the euro gained roughly 13% against the dollar. Here's the full story, year by year.
VGWD since 2017
The chart shows the dividend-adjusted share price of VGWD, the ETF tracking this index — not the raw index level. The shape of the ride is the same.
VGWD returns by year (EUR)
| Year | Total return |
|---|---|
| 2026 (so far) | +14.44% |
| 2025 | +13.16% |
| 2024 | +15.75% |
| 2023 | +7.29% |
| 2022 | +0.08% |
| 2021 | +27.90% |
| 2020 | -9.60% |
| 2019 | +25.03% |
| 2018 | -8.03% |
| 2017 | +0.41% |
Calendar-year total returns of VGWD in EUR, dividends reinvested — the ETF tracking this index, not the raw index level.
Compare VGWD head to head
Yearly returns side by side against the other funds we track.