Appendix 3: Reserve statistics

Robert Pringle and Victor Mendez-Barreira

Table 1: Central bank reserve holdings by country, 2013–22 

Table 2: Top 100 central bank reserve holdings by value, 2013–22 

Figure 1: Currency composition of global foreign exchange reserves, 2022

Figures for central bank reserve holdings were calculated by adding the International Monetary Fund’s Total Reserves excluding Gold and Gold Holdings at National Valuation datasets.

Figures for foreign exchange reserves refer to holdings of currencies only. Currency data is from the fourth quarter of 2022.

Source: IMF International Financial Statistics and Currency Composition of Official Foreign

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