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DEFINITION
Total reserves comprise holdings of monetary gold, special drawing rights, reserves of IMF members held by the IMF, and holdings of foreign exchange under the control of monetary authorities. The gold component of these reserves is valued at year-end (December 31) London prices. This item shows reserves expressed in terms of the number of months of imports of goods and services which could be paid for.
Economy Statistics > Total reserves in months of imports (most recent) by country
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Rank
Countries
Amount
(top to bottom)
Date
#1
Libya :
32.13
2005 ...
#2
Japan :
15.74
2005 ...
#3
Botswana :
15.29
2005 ...
#4
China :
13.47
2005 ...
#5
India :
12.19
2003 ...
#6
Russia :
10.84
2005 ...
#7
Nigeria :
10.72
2005 ...
#8
Lebanon :
10.7
2005 ...
#9
Iraq :
10.5
1977 ...
#10
Yemen :
10.35
2005 ...
#11
Afghanistan :
10.3
1989 ...
#12
Venezuela :
10.07
2005 ...
#13
Central African Republic :
9.63
1994 ...
#14
Macau :
9.23
2004 ...
#15
Turkmenistan :
8.6
1997 ...
#16
Morocco :
8.37
2005 ...
#17
Peru :
8.17
2005 ...
#18
Madagascar :
7.95
2005 ...
#19
Korea, South :
7.76
2005 ...
#20
Argentina :
7.45
2005 ...
#21
Egypt :
7.33
2005 ...
#22
Rwanda :
6.93
2005 ...
#23
Nepal :
6.7
2005 ...
#24
Trinidad and Tobago :
6.47
2004 ...
#25
Bolivia :
6.4
2005 ...
#26
Uruguay :
6.39
2005 ...
#27
Benin :
6.37
2004 ...
#28
Guinea-Bissau :
6.35
2004 ...
#29
Tanzania :
5.98
2005 ...
#30
Malaysia :
5.94
2005 ...
#31
Iran :
5.82
1982 ...
#32
Uganda :
5.78
2005 ...
#33
Norway :
5.74
2005 ...
#34
Colombia :
5.69
2005 ...
#35
Mali :
5.6
2004 ...
#36
Romania :
5.48
2005 ...
#37
Slovakia :
5.47
2003 ...
#38
Jordan :
5.35
2005 ...
#39
Malta :
5.26
2005 ...
#40
Israel :
5.19
2005 ...
#41
Honduras :
5.13
2005 ...
#42
Ukraine :
5.12
2005 ...
#43
Singapore :
5.11
2005 ...
#44
Comoros :
5.09
1995 ...
#45
Brazil :
5.09
2005 ...
#46
Cyprus :
4.99
2005 ...
#47
Kyrgyzstan :
4.92
2005 ...
#48
Mauritania :
4.9
1998 ...
#49
Kuwait :
4.87
2005 ...
#50
Senegal :
4.86
2004 ...
#51
Bulgaria :
4.8
2005 ...
#52
Turkey :
4.8
2005 ...
#53
Fiji :
4.57
1999 ...
#54
Burkina Faso :
4.53
2001 ...
#55
São Tomé and Príncipe :
4.51
2002 ...
#56
Thailand :
4.47
2005 ...
#57
Guatemala :
4.47
2005 ...
#58
Croatia :
4.44
2005 ...
#59
Albania :
4.41
2005 ...
#60
Lesotho :
4.39
2005 ...
#61
Macedonia, Republic of :
4.28
2005 ...
#62
Samoa :
4.26
2005 ...
#63
Slovenia :
4.17
2005 ...
#64
Pakistan :
4.14
2005 ...
#65
Saudi Arabia :
4.13
2005 ...
#66
Indonesia :
4.08
2005 ...
#67
Oman :
4.04
2005 ...
#68
Poland :
4.02
2005 ...
#69
Sierra Leone :
4.02
2005 ...
#70
Chile :
3.99
2005 ...
#71
Gambia, The :
3.98
2005 ...
#72
Mozambique :
3.95
2005 ...
#73
Algeria :
3.9
1991 ...
#74
Philippines :
3.84
2005 ...
#75
Mauritius :
3.82
2005 ...
#76
Hong Kong :
3.79
2005 ...
#77
Jamaica :
3.73
2005 ...
#78
Togo :
3.7
2004 ...
#79
Bosnia and Herzegovina :
3.69
2005 ...
#80
Czech Republic :
3.65
2005 ...
#81
Paraguay :
3.57
2005 ...
#82
Armenia :
3.49
2005 ...
#83
Niger :
3.47
2004 ...
#84
Mexico :
3.4
2005 ...
#85
Ghana :
3.33
2005 ...
#86
Tunisia :
3.33
2005 ...
#87
Burundi :
3.23
2005 ...
#88
Kenya :
3.21
2005 ...
#89
South Africa :
3.16
2005 ...
#90
Sri Lanka :
3.16
2005 ...
#91
Guyana :
3.15
2005 ...
#92
Vanuatu :
3.12
2005 ...
#93
Laos :
3.02
2001 ...
#94
Barbados :
3.02
2005 ...
#95
Denmark :
3.01
2005 ...
#96
Cape Verde :
2.99
2005 ...
#97
Switzerland :
2.92
2005 ...
#98
Djibouti :
2.88
1995 ...
#99
Burma :
2.86
2004 ...
#100
Cambodia :
2.85
2005 ...
#101
Solomon Islands :
2.79
1999 ...
#102
Papua New Guinea :
2.76
2005 ...
#103
Tonga :
2.76
2002 ...
#104
Grenada :
2.73
2005 ...
#105
Ethiopia :
2.72
2005 ...
#106
Vietnam :
2.71
2005 ...
#107
El Salvador :
2.7
2005 ...
#108
Kazakhstan :
2.69
2005 ...
#109
Australia :
2.68
2005 ...
#110
Hungary :
2.65
2005 ...
#111
Dominica :
2.61
2005 ...
#112
Latvia :
2.6
2005 ...
#113
Saint Kitts and Nevis :
2.57
2005 ...
#114
Lithuania :
2.57
2005 ...
#115
New Zealand :
2.54
2005 ...
#116
Nicaragua :
2.54
2005 ...
#117
Netherlands Antilles :
2.54
2005 ...
#118
Maldives :
2.53
2005 ...
#119
Moldova :
2.49
2005 ...
#120
Costa Rica :
2.48
2005 ...
#121
Zimbabwe :
2.48
1994 ...
#122
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines :
2.46
2005 ...
#123
Sudan :
2.44
2005 ...
#124
Malawi :
2.37
2002 ...
#125
Bahrain :
2.36
2004 ...
#126
Antigua and Barbuda :
2.28
2005 ...
#127
Chad :
2.27
1994 ...
#128
Bangladesh :
2.21
2005 ...
#129
Congo, Republic of the :
2.18
2005 ...
#130
Saint Lucia :
2.12
2005 ...
#131
Mongolia :
2.1
2004 ...