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) (VHYL).Every figure here is in pounds — what you'd actually pocket buying on the London Stock Exchange. Fund fact sheets usually headline returns in US dollars, which can look very different in years when the pound moves against the dollar. Here's the full story, year by year.
VHYL since 2013
The chart shows the dividend-adjusted share price of VHYL, the ETF tracking this index — not the raw index level. The shape of the ride is the same.
VHYL returns by year (USD)
| Year | Total return |
|---|---|
| 2026 (so far) | +12.85% |
| 2025 | +18.22% |
| 2024 | +11.23% |
| 2023 | +5.26% |
| 2022 | +5.95% |
| 2021 | +19.24% |
| 2020 | -3.74% |
| 2019 | +17.00% |
| 2018 | -6.59% |
| 2017 | +8.80% |
| 2016 | +32.59% |
| 2015 | -0.71% |
| 2014 | +8.22% |
| 2013 | -1.85% |
Calendar-year total returns of VHYL in USD, dividends reinvested — the ETF tracking this index, not the raw index level.
Compare VHYL head to head
Yearly returns side by side against the other funds we track.