History Index YouTube Stats

@historyindexofficial · History & Documentary · Updated Nov 6, 2026

History Index channel overview

History Index (@historyindexofficial) is a YouTube channel in the History & Documentary niche created in 2025. It has 15K subscribers and 7M total views across 44 videos, an average of 159K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 159K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 2.1K views. Over the last 12 months, History Index published 47 videos (81% Shorts), and 10 of them (21%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 17 days, History Index gained 13K subscribers and 6.7M views, about 394K views a day.

How much does History Index make?

Returbe estimates History Index's YouTube ad revenue at $596 – $2.1K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $0.04 to $0.14, typically $0.08, based on the channel's niche, audience language and the share of its views coming from Shorts. At that rate, 1 million long-form views earn about $80.

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Upload schedule

History Index publishes about 51.1 videos a month. Based on its last 47 uploads, its most common upload day is Wednesday (23% of uploads), usually around 22:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

History Index's best outlier videos

An outlier is a video that beats the channel's own typical views. These are History Index's biggest hits relative to its normal, the ideas its audience responded to most. What is an outlier video?

• Why Did Britain Give Hong Kong Back to China? #history #didyouknow #facts #china1.2M views · Oct 26, 202616.2× typical views
• Why Did No One Ever Dare to Conquer Britain? #history #didyouknow #facts932K views · Oct 17, 202612.1× typical views
• Why Does Russia Own a Piece of Land Inside the EU? #history885K views · Oct 30, 202611.5× typical views
• 5 Countries That Benefited Greatly from WW220K views · Oct 25, 20269.2× typical views
• The Country That Sold Its Entire Navy #history #didyouknow #facts700K views · Oct 28, 20269.1× typical views
• Why Did Portugal Refuse to Give Up Macau? #history #map603K views · Oct 30, 20267.8× typical views
• Why Was China Never Colonized? #history #didyouknow #facts343K views · Oct 14, 20264.5× typical views
• Why Was Japan Never Colonized? #history #didyouknow #facts304K views · Oct 14, 20263.9× typical views

Latest videos

12 of History Index's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Chile Is 4,300 km Long but Under 200 km Wide. How Did That Happen? #history #chile #maps #shorts5.5K views · Nov 6, 20260.1× typical views
• Why Does Spain Still Control Two Cities Inside Africa? #history #map #shorts11K views · Nov 5, 20260.1× typical views
• Why Was Iran Never Colonized? #shorts #history #iran #persia75K views · Nov 5, 20261× typical views
• Why Are So Many Americans Poor in a Rich Country? #history #economics1.3K views · Nov 4, 20260× typical views
• Why Did Britain Give Up Its Most Valuable Colony? #map #geography10K views · Nov 2, 20260.1× typical views
• The War Britain Fought to Sell Drugs to China785 views · Nov 2, 20260.4× typical views
• USA vs China: Who Wins? #history12K views · Nov 2, 20260.2× typical views
• Why Does Liberia’s Flag Look Like America’s? #history26K views · Nov 1, 20260.3× typical views
• The Families Who Prayed for War #history22K views · Oct 31, 20260.3× typical views
• Why Does Russia Own a Piece of Land Inside the EU? #history885K views · Oct 30, 202611.5× typical views

The History & Documentary niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 3.6K videos from 400 channels in this niche. 13% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 12K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $10.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Armed Sphere (273K subs, best video 202×), Military Exposed Shorts (140K subs, best video 42.9×), Para Historica (20K subs, best video 25.3×), Phantom Expedition (37K subs, best video 61.9×), James Sullivan (6.8K subs, best video 10.5×), ViralVerseUSA (9.4K subs, best video 38.8×).

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Frequently asked questions

Data from Returbe's index of YouTube channels, collected from public YouTube data. Earnings are estimates from views and RPM benchmarks, not figures from the channel. Returbe is not affiliated with History Index or YouTube.