diff --git a/searx/engines/duckduckgo.py b/searx/engines/duckduckgo.py
index 92431b137..ae1e36686 100644
--- a/searx/engines/duckduckgo.py
+++ b/searx/engines/duckduckgo.py
@@ -39,7 +39,8 @@ url = 'https://html.duckduckgo.com/html'
 url_ping = 'https://duckduckgo.com/t/sl_h'
 time_range_dict = {'day': 'd',
                    'week': 'w',
-                   'month': 'm'}
+                   'month': 'm',
+                   'year': 'y'}
 
 # specific xpath variables
 result_xpath = '//div[@class="result results_links results_links_deep web-result "]'  # noqa