diff --git a/app/controllers/events_controller.rb b/app/controllers/events_controller.rb
index 5e4b445c3..b4a938b82 100644
--- a/app/controllers/events_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/events_controller.rb
@@ -185,6 +185,10 @@ def index
         if total > 0
           facet_by_year(response.aggregations.occurred.buckets)
         end
+      created =
+        if total > 0
+          facet_by_year(response.aggregations.created.buckets)
+        end
       prefixes =
         if total.positive?
           facet_by_key(response.response.aggregations.prefixes.buckets)
@@ -219,6 +223,7 @@ def index
           page[:cursor].nil? && page[:number].present? ? page[:number] : nil,
         sources: sources,
         occurred: occurred,
+        created: created,
         prefixes: prefixes,
         "citationTypes" => citation_types,
         "relationTypes" => relation_types,
diff --git a/app/models/event.rb b/app/models/event.rb
index fa98e6c4e..0435e92db 100644
--- a/app/models/event.rb
+++ b/app/models/event.rb
@@ -263,6 +263,16 @@ def self.query_aggregations
           },
           aggs: { bucket_truncate: { bucket_sort: { size: 10 } } },
       },
+      created: {
+        date_histogram: {
+          field: "created_at",
+          interval: "year",
+          format: "year",
+          order: { _key: "desc" },
+          min_doc_count: 1,
+        },
+        aggs: { bucket_truncate: { bucket_sort: { size: 10 } } },
+    },
       registrants: {
         terms: { field: "registrant_id", size: 10, min_doc_count: 1 },
         aggs: {
diff --git a/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/EventsController/create/with_registrant_information/has_created_aggregation.yml b/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/EventsController/create/with_registrant_information/has_created_aggregation.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f567bf0e8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spec/fixtures/vcr_cassettes/EventsController/create/with_registrant_information/has_created_aggregation.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,101 @@
+---
+http_interactions:
+- request:
+    method: get
+    uri: https://doi.org/ra/10.18713
+    body:
+      encoding: US-ASCII
+      string: ''
+    headers:
+      User-Agent:
+      - Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Maremma/4.9.4; mailto:info@datacite.org)
+      Accept:
+      - text/html,application/json,application/xml;q=0.9, text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
+      Accept-Encoding:
+      - gzip,deflate
+  response:
+    status:
+      code: 200
+      message: ''
+    headers:
+      Date:
+      - Tue, 21 Dec 2021 14:21:42 GMT
+      Content-Type:
+      - application/json;charset=UTF-8
+      Connection:
+      - keep-alive
+      Content-Encoding:
+      - gzip
+      Cf-Cache-Status:
+      - DYNAMIC
+      Expect-Ct:
+      - max-age=604800, report-uri="https://report-uri.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/beacon/expect-ct"
+      Report-To:
+      - '{"endpoints":[{"url":"https:\/\/a.nel.cloudflare.com\/report\/v3?s=lFY4bnX9IEEUgQqkhEQ7BOG2%2FIlH5PaN0olNdRBhi07wOPKxvNBFIdcfRdNyNJfCNldUB3ecl9Lf6giP%2BN93BQDFAl77enLJZMHI9Vd6QCTrxKFaYurE2Xc%3D"}],"group":"cf-nel","max_age":604800}'
+      Nel:
+      - '{"success_fraction":0,"report_to":"cf-nel","max_age":604800}'
+      Strict-Transport-Security:
+      - max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload
+      Server:
+      - cloudflare
+      Cf-Ray:
+      - 6c11c221cc668b93-FRA
+      Alt-Svc:
+      - h3=":443"; ma=86400, h3-29=":443"; ma=86400, h3-28=":443"; ma=86400, h3-27=":443";
+        ma=86400
+    body:
+      encoding: ASCII-8BIT
+      string: !binary |-
+        H4sIAAAAAAAAA4vmUlCoBmIFBSUXf08lKwUlQwM9QwtzQ2MlHYhwkCNI1CWxJNE5syRVCShYyxULADrjNVo3AAAA
+    http_version: null
+  recorded_at: Wed, 08 Apr 2015 00:00:00 GMT
+- request:
+    method: get
+    uri: https://doi.org/ra/10.1016
+    body:
+      encoding: US-ASCII
+      string: ''
+    headers:
+      User-Agent:
+      - Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Maremma/4.9.4; mailto:info@datacite.org)
+      Accept:
+      - text/html,application/json,application/xml;q=0.9, text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
+      Accept-Encoding:
+      - gzip,deflate
+  response:
+    status:
+      code: 200
+      message: ''
+    headers:
+      Date:
+      - Tue, 21 Dec 2021 14:21:42 GMT
+      Content-Type:
+      - application/json;charset=UTF-8
+      Connection:
+      - keep-alive
+      Content-Encoding:
+      - gzip
+      Cf-Cache-Status:
+      - DYNAMIC
+      Expect-Ct:
+      - max-age=604800, report-uri="https://report-uri.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/beacon/expect-ct"
+      Report-To:
+      - '{"endpoints":[{"url":"https:\/\/a.nel.cloudflare.com\/report\/v3?s=PDnklYEQGsQ5G5RM%2BKVslm2UN%2F7%2BnJf80Lxd%2FE4gALjlxaAPn4e22C8QdQ8o2%2BaaYrxJ8guvWrk9WllbBHgTJWODMmvY4eiJH28AoUJI5sMpIFaS08o2JQE%3D"}],"group":"cf-nel","max_age":604800}'
+      Nel:
+      - '{"success_fraction":0,"report_to":"cf-nel","max_age":604800}'
+      Strict-Transport-Security:
+      - max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload
+      Server:
+      - cloudflare
+      Cf-Ray:
+      - 6c11c222cca9d6c5-FRA
+      Alt-Svc:
+      - h3=":443"; ma=86400, h3-29=":443"; ma=86400, h3-28=":443"; ma=86400, h3-27=":443";
+        ma=86400
+    body:
+      encoding: ASCII-8BIT
+      string: !binary |-
+        H4sIAAAAAAAAA4vmUlCoBmIFBSUXf08lKwUlQwM9QwNDMyUdiGiQI0jQuSi/uLgoNU0JKFjLFQsAH0F06DYAAAA=
+    http_version: null
+  recorded_at: Wed, 08 Apr 2015 00:00:00 GMT
+recorded_with: VCR 5.1.0
diff --git a/spec/requests/events_spec.rb b/spec/requests/events_spec.rb
index 1802ca357..d98f568d4 100644
--- a/spec/requests/events_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/requests/events_spec.rb
@@ -364,6 +364,17 @@
           "datacite.crossref.citations",
         )
       end
+
+      it "has created aggregation" do
+        post uri, params, headers
+
+        Event.import
+        sleep 2
+        get uri, nil, headers
+
+        expect(json.dig("meta", "created", 0, "count")).to eq(1)
+        expect(json.dig("meta", "occurred", 0, "count")).to eq(1)
+      end
     end
 
     context "with nested attributes" do