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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
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
= 44
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
= 51
Turkey :
4.8
2005
# 53
Fiji :
4.57
1999
# 54
Burkina Faso :
4.53
2001
# 55
São Tomé and Príncipe :
4.51
2002
= 56
Guatemala :
4.47
2005
= 56
Thailand :
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
Sierra Leone :
4.02
2005
= 68
Poland :
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
Tunisia :
3.33
2005
= 85
Ghana :
3.33
2005
# 87
Burundi :
3.23
2005
# 88
Kenya :
3.21
2005
= 89
Sri Lanka :
3.16
2005
= 89
South Africa :
3.16
2005
# 91
Guyana :
3.15
2005
# 92
Vanuatu :
3.12
2005
= 93
Laos :
3.02
2001
= 93
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
= 102
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
Lithuania :
2.57
2005
= 113
Saint Kitts and Nevis :
2.57
2005
= 115
New Zealand :
2.54
2005
= 115
Nicaragua :
2.54
2005
= 115
Netherlands Antilles :
2.54
2005
# 118
Maldives :
2.53
2005
# 119
Moldova :
2.49
2005
= 120
Costa Rica :
2.48
2005
= 120
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
Cameroon :
2.1
2003
= 131
Mongolia :
2.1
2004
# 133
Syria :
2.08
1988
# 134
Angola :
2
2005
= 135
Côte d'Ivoire :
1.98
2005
= 135
Zambia :
1.98
2000
# 137
Ecuador :
1.86
2005
# 138
Estonia :
1.78
2005
# 139
Bahamas, The :
1.74
2005
# 140
Gabon :
1.72
2004
# 141
Georgia :
1.65
2005
# 142
Dominican Republic :
1.62
2005
# 143
Sweden :
1.61
2005
# 144
Azerbaijan :
1.6
2005
# 145
Finland :
1.59
2005
# 146
Portugal :
1.54
2005
# 147
Namibia :
1.53
2004
# 148
Italy :
1.46
2005
# 149
Iceland :
1.39
2005
# 150
Guinea :
1.36
2004
# 151
Tajikistan :
1.31
2005
# 152
France :
1.28
2005
# 153
Swaziland :
1.26
2005
# 154
Panama :
1.13
2005
= 155
Germany :
1.06
2005
= 155
Suriname :
1.06
2005
# 157
Belize :
1.03
2005
# 158
United States :
0.92
2005
# 159
Canada :
0.9
2005
= 160
Belarus :
0.89
2005
= 160
Haiti :
0.89
2005
# 162
Eritrea :
0.85
2000
# 163
Aruba :
0.79
2005
# 164
Austria :
0.75
2005
# 165
Seychelles :
0.73
2005
# 166
United Kingdom :
0.55
2005
# 167
Netherlands :
0.53
2005
# 168
Spain :
0.51
2005
# 169
Somalia :
0.5
1989
# 170
Belgium :
0.4
2005
# 171
Greece :
0.35
2005
# 172
Ireland :
0.05
2005
# 173
Luxembourg :
0.03
2005
= 174
Equatorial Guinea :
0.01
1996
= 174
Liberia :
0.01
1987
Weighted average:
4.1
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.
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