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DEFINITION:
Total reserves in months of imports. 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 they could pay for [Reserves/(Imports/12)]. Figures expressed per million population for the same year.
CONTENTS
| # | COUNTRY | AMOUNT | DATE | GRAPH | HISTORY |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seychelles | 459.61 | 2012 | ||
| 2 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 157.48 | 2012 | ||
| 3 | Dominica | 59.03 | 2012 | ||
| 4 | Tonga | 57.55 | 2009 | ||
| 5 | Antigua and Barbuda | 32.72 | 2012 | ||
| 6 | Grenada | 31.01 | 2012 | ||
| 7 | Aruba | 30.18 | 2012 | ||
| 8 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 28.67 | 2012 | ||
| 9 | Samoa | 23.31 | 2012 | ||
| 10 | Sao Tome and Principe | 22.81 | 2012 | ||
| Heavily indebted countries average (profile) | 21.98 | 2012 | |||
| 11 | Saint Lucia | 19.05 | 2012 | ||
| 12 | Vanuatu | 18.52 | 2011 | ||
| 13 | Iceland | 16.67 | 2012 | ||
| 14 | Solomon Islands | 14.31 | 2012 | ||
| 15 | Barbados | 13.78 | 2010 | ||
| Latin America and Caribbean average (profile) | 12.81 | 2012 | |||
| 16 | Macau | 12.21 | 2012 | ||
| 17 | Bhutan | 11.84 | 2012 | ||
| 18 | Brunei | 10.37 | 2009 | ||
| 19 | Belize | 9.3 | 2012 | ||
| 20 | Suriname | 8.73 | 2012 | ||
| Former British colonies average (profile) | 7.83 | 2011 | |||
| 21 | Cape Verde | 7.21 | 2012 | ||
| 22 | Libya | 6.58 | 2012 | ||
| 23 | East Timor | 5.24 | 2012 | ||
| 24 | The Bahamas | 5.22 | 2012 | ||
| 25 | Trinidad and Tobago | 5.17 | 2011 | ||
| 26 | Guyana | 5.1 | 2012 | ||
| 27 | Botswana | 5.05 | 2012 | ||
| 28 | Djibouti | 4.95 | 2012 | ||
| 29 | Fiji | 4.49 | 2010 | ||
| 30 | Lebanon | 4.19 | 2012 | ||
| 31 | Maldives | 4.16 | 2012 | ||
| 32 | Guinea-Bissau | 3.76 | 2010 | ||
| Potential Future EU Members average (profile) | 3.53 | 2012 | |||
| 33 | The Gambia | 3.38 | 2012 | ||
| 34 | Mauritius | 3.17 | 2012 | ||
| 35 | Montenegro | 3.04 | 2012 | ||
| 36 | Uruguay | 2.94 | 2012 | ||
| 37 | Kuwait | 2.81 | 2012 | ||
| 38 | Qatar | 2.65 | 2012 | ||
| 39 | Bahrain | 2.52 | 2012 | ||
| 40 | Swaziland | 2.48 | 2010 | ||
| South Asia average (profile) | 2.43 | 2012 | |||
| 41 | Republic of Macedonia | 2.37 | 2012 | ||
| 42 | Latvia | 2.25 | 2012 | ||
| 43 | Kosovo | 2.11 | 2012 | ||
| Middle Eastern and North Africa average (profile) | 2.01 | 2011 | |||
| 44 | Mongolia | 1.97 | 2012 | ||
| 45 | Lesotho | 1.93 | 2012 | ||
| 46 | Malta | 1.77 | 2012 | ||
| 47 | Switzerland | 1.77 | 2012 | ||
| 48 | Gabon | 1.73 | 2005 | ||
| OPEC countries average (profile) | 1.68 | 2012 | |||
| South and Central Asia average (profile) | 1.63 | 2012 | |||
| 49 | Albania | 1.58 | 2012 | ||
| Muslim countries average (profile) | 1.57 | 2009 | |||
| 50 | Croatia | 1.52 | 2012 | ||
| 51 | Moldova | 1.43 | 2012 | ||
| 52 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1.41 | 2012 | ||
| 53 | Bolivia | 1.39 | 2012 | ||
| 54 | Namibia | 1.36 | 2011 | ||
| 55 | Oman | 1.32 | 2012 | ||
| 56 | Armenia | 1.3 | 2012 | ||
| 57 | Saudi Arabia | 1.25 | 2012 | ||
| Cold countries average (profile) | 1.25 | 2012 | |||
| 58 | Denmark | 1.1 | 2012 | ||
| 59 | Israel | 1.07 | 2012 | ||
| 60 | Costa Rica | 1.06 | 2012 | ||
| 61 | Singapore | 1.06 | 2012 | ||
| Europe average (profile) | 1.05 | 2012 | |||
| NATO countries average (profile) | 1.04 | 2012 | |||
| 62 | Jamaica | 1.02 | 2012 | ||
| 63 | Serbia | 1.01 | 2012 | ||
| 64 | Lithuania | 0.915 | 2012 | ||
| 65 | Algeria | 0.889 | 2012 | ||
| 66 | Bulgaria | 0.879 | 2012 | ||
| 67 | Cyprus | 0.879 | 2012 | ||
| Eastern Europe average (profile) | 0.873 | 2012 | |||
| 68 | Republic of the Congo | 0.84 | 2007 | ||
| High income OECD countries average (profile) | 0.802 | 2012 | |||
| 69 | Papua New Guinea | 0.789 | 2010 | ||
| 70 | New Zealand | 0.773 | 2012 | ||
| 71 | Hong Kong | 0.768 | 2012 | ||
| 72 | Laos | 0.753 | 2011 | ||
| 73 | Georgia | 0.738 | 2012 | ||
| 74 | Norway | 0.715 | 2012 | ||
| 75 | Jordan | 0.697 | 2012 | ||
| 76 | Togo | 0.697 | 2010 | ||
| Former Soviet republics average (profile) | 0.677 | 2012 | |||
| 77 | Paraguay | 0.67 | 2012 | ||
| 78 | Kyrgyzstan | 0.666 | 2012 | ||
| Former French colonies average (profile) | 0.651 | 2005 | |||
| 79 | Azerbaijan | 0.638 | 2012 | ||
| 80 | Benin | 0.633 | 2010 | ||
| 81 | Syria | 0.541 | 2010 | ||
| 82 | El Salvador | 0.534 | 2012 | ||
| Former Spanish colonies average (profile) | 0.522 | 2012 | |||
| Religious countries average (profile) | 0.517 | 2012 | |||
| 83 | Nicaragua | 0.49 | 2012 | ||
| 84 | Liberia | 0.454 | 2011 | ||
| European Union average (profile) | 0.438 | 2012 | |||
| 85 | Hungary | 0.433 | 2012 | ||
| 86 | Peru | 0.416 | 2012 | ||
| 87 | Iraq | 0.402 | 2012 | ||
| 88 | Burundi | 0.4 | 2012 | ||
| 89 | Haiti | 0.394 | 2012 | ||
| 90 | Cambodia | 0.386 | 2012 | ||
| 91 | Sierra Leone | 0.357 | 2012 | ||
| Eurozone average (profile) | 0.352 | 2012 | |||
| 92 | Nepal | 0.35 | 2012 | ||
| 93 | Romania | 0.349 | 2012 | ||
| 94 | Rwanda | 0.345 | 2012 | ||
| 95 | Senegal | 0.341 | 2010 | ||
| 96 | Angola | 0.341 | 2012 | ||
| 97 | Tunisia | 0.34 | 2012 | ||
| 98 | Honduras | 0.329 | 2012 | ||
| 99 | Czech Republic | 0.322 | 2012 | ||
| 100 | Burkina Faso | 0.311 | 2010 | ||
| Emerging markets average (profile) | 0.282 | 2012 | |||
| 101 | Mali | 0.272 | 2010 | ||
| 102 | Guatemala | 0.267 | 2012 | ||
| 103 | Chile | 0.26 | 2012 | ||
| 104 | Portugal | 0.256 | 2012 | ||
| 105 | Sweden | 0.252 | 2012 | ||
| 106 | Zambia | 0.251 | 2012 | ||
| 107 | Afghanistan | 0.242 | 2012 | ||
| 108 | Panama | 0.235 | 2012 | ||
| 109 | Malaysia | 0.225 | 2012 | ||
| 110 | Kazakhstan | 0.224 | 2012 | ||
| 111 | Cameroon | 0.212 | 2012 | ||
| 112 | Dominican Republic | 0.209 | 2012 | ||
| 113 | Finland | 0.204 | 2012 | ||
| 114 | Belarus | 0.2 | 2012 | ||
| 115 | Niger | 0.197 | 2010 | ||
| Non-religious countries average (profile) | 0.197 | 2012 | |||
| 116 | Cote d'Ivoire | 0.192 | 2010 | ||
| 117 | Madagascar | 0.181 | 2005 | ||
| 118 | Sri Lanka | 0.181 | 2012 | ||
| 119 | Yemen | 0.178 | 2011 | ||
| 120 | Tajikistan | 0.176 | 2012 | ||
| 121 | Slovenia | 0.165 | 2012 | ||
| 122 | Burma | 0.163 | 2011 | ||
| 123 | Austria | 0.156 | 2012 | ||
| 124 | Venezuela | 0.132 | 2012 | ||
| 125 | Poland | 0.13 | 2012 | ||
| 126 | Morocco | 0.13 | 2012 | ||
| 127 | Argentina | 0.129 | 2012 | ||
| 128 | Uganda | 0.127 | 2012 | ||
| 129 | South Korea | 0.123 | 2012 | ||
| 130 | Estonia | 0.123 | 2012 | ||
| 131 | Philippines | 0.123 | 2012 | ||
| 132 | Mozambique | 0.115 | 2012 | ||
| 133 | Ghana | 0.114 | 2012 | ||
| 134 | Japan | 0.111 | 2012 | ||
| 135 | Thailand | 0.11 | 2012 | ||
| 136 | Colombia | 0.107 | 2012 | ||
| 137 | Greece | 0.101 | 2012 | ||
| 138 | South Africa | 0.0881 | 2012 | ||
| 139 | Kenya | 0.0869 | 2012 | ||
| 140 | Russia | 0.0803 | 2012 | ||
| 141 | Luxembourg | 0.0793 | 2012 | ||
| 142 | Tanzania | 0.0776 | 2012 | ||
| 143 | Turkey | 0.074 | 2012 | ||
| 144 | Belgium | 0.0715 | 2012 | ||
| 145 | Malawi | 0.0697 | 2012 | ||
| 146 | Ecuador | 0.0659 | 2012 | ||
| 147 | Brazil | 0.0643 | 2012 | ||
| 148 | Australia | 0.0637 | 2012 | ||
| 149 | Slovakia | 0.0633 | 2012 | ||
| 150 | Netherlands | 0.0595 | 2012 | ||
| 151 | Ukraine | 0.0582 | 2012 | ||
| 152 | Italy | 0.0559 | 2012 | ||
| 153 | Guinea | 0.0433 | 2011 | ||
| Group of 7 countries (G7) average (profile) | 0.0405 | 2012 | |||
| 154 | Mexico | 0.0381 | 2012 | ||
| 155 | France | 0.035 | 2012 | ||
| 156 | Canada | 0.0348 | 2012 | ||
| 157 | Nigeria | 0.0336 | 2012 | ||
| 158 | Egypt | 0.0308 | 2012 | ||
| 159 | Vietnam | 0.028 | 2012 | ||
| 160 | Ethiopia | 0.0277 | 2009 | ||
| 161 | Spain | 0.027 | 2012 | ||
| 162 | Bangladesh | 0.025 | 2012 | ||
| 163 | Indonesia | 0.0227 | 2012 | ||
| 164 | Germany | 0.0215 | 2012 | ||
| 165 | United Kingdom | 0.0184 | 2012 | ||
| 166 | Pakistan | 0.0175 | 2012 | ||
| 167 | Ireland | 0.0154 | 2012 | ||
| 168 | China | 0.0141 | 2012 | ||
| 169 | United States | 0.00664 | 2012 | ||
| 170 | European Union | 0.00583 | 2012 | ||
| 171 | Sudan | 0.00582 | 2012 | ||
| 172 | India | 0.00477 | 2012 |
