Currencies held by monetary authorities as part of their foreign exchange reserves
A
reserve currency
is a
foreign currency
that is held in significant quantities by
central banks
or other
monetary authorities
as part of their
foreign exchange reserves
. The reserve currency can be used in international transactions, international investments and all aspects of the global economy. It is often considered a
hard currency
or
safe-haven currency
.
The United Kingdom's
pound sterling
was the primary reserve currency of much of the world in the 19th century and first half of the 20th century.
[1]
However, by the middle of the 20th century, the
United States dollar
had become the world's dominant reserve currency.
[2]
[
better source needed
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History
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Reserve currencies have come and gone with the evolution of the world’s geopolitical order. International currencies in the past have (excluding those discussed below) included the
Greek drachma
, coined in the fifth century B.C.E., the Roman
denarii
, the Byzantine
solidus
and Islamic
dinar
of the middle-ages and the
French franc
.
The Venetian
ducat
and the Florentine
florin
became the gold-based currency of choice between Europe and the Arab world from the 13th to 16th centuries, since gold was easier than silver to mint in standard sizes and transport over long distances. It was the
Spanish silver dollar
, however, which created the first true global reserve currency recognized in Europe, Asia and the Americas from the 16th to 19th centuries due to abundant silver supplies from
Spanish America
.
[3]
While the
Dutch guilder
was a reserve currency of somewhat lesser scope, used between Europe and the territories of the
Dutch colonial empire
from the 17th to 18th centuries, it was also a
silver standard
currency fed with the output of Spanish-American mines flowing through the
Spanish Netherlands
. The Dutch, through the
Amsterdam Wisselbank
(the
Bank of Amsterdam
), were also the first to establish a reserve currency whose monetary unit was stabilized using practices familiar to modern
central banking
(as opposed to the
Spanish dollar
stabilized through American mine output and Spanish fiat) and which can be considered as the precursor to modern-day
monetary policy
.
[4]
[5]
It was therefore the Dutch which served as the model for
bank money
and reserve currencies stabilized by central banks, with the establishment of
Bank of England
in 1694 and the
Bank of France
in the 19th century. The British
pound sterling
, in particular, was poised to dislodge the Spanish dollar's hegemony as the rest of the world transitioned to the
gold standard
in the last quarter of the 19th century. At that point, the UK was the primary exporter of manufactured goods and services, and over 60% of world trade was invoiced in pounds sterling. British banks were also expanding overseas; London was the world centre for
insurance
and
commodity markets
and British capital was the leading source of foreign investment around the world; sterling soon became the standard currency used for international commercial transactions.
[6]
Attempts were made in the
interwar period
to restore the gold standard. The British
Gold Standard Act
reintroduced the gold bullion standard in 1925,
[7]
followed by many other countries. This led to relative stability, followed by
deflation
, but because the onset of the
Great Depression
and other factors, global trade greatly declined and the gold standard fell.
Speculative attacks
on the pound forced Britain entirely off the gold standard in 1931.
[8]
[9]
After
World War II
, the international financial system was governed by a formal agreement, the
Bretton Woods system
. Under this system, the
United States dollar
(USD) was placed deliberately as the anchor of the system, with the US government guaranteeing other central banks that they could sell their US dollar reserves at a fixed rate for gold.
[10]
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the system suffered setbacks ostensibly due to problems pointed out by the
Triffin dilemma
?the conflict of economic interests that arises between short-term domestic objectives and long-term international objectives when a national currency also serves as a world reserve currency.
Additionally, in 1971
President
Richard Nixon
suspended the convertibility of the USD to gold
, thus creating a fully
fiat
global reserve currency system. However, gold has persisted as a significant reserve asset since the collapse of the classical gold standard.
[11]
Following the
2020 economic recession
, the
IMF
opined about the emergence of "A New Bretton Woods Moment" which could imply the need for a new global reserve currency system. (see below:
§ Calls for an alternative reserve currency
)
[12]
Global currency reserves
[
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]
The IMF publishes the aggregated
Currency Composition of Foreign Exchange Reserves
(COFER) each quarter.
[13]
The reserves of the individual reporting countries and institutions are confidential.
[14]
Thus the following table is a limited view about the global currency reserves that only deals with allocated (i.e. reported) reserves:
Currency composition of official foreign
exchange reserves
(1965?2023, fourth quarters)
|
2023
|
2022
|
2021
|
2020
|
2019
|
2018
|
2017
|
2016
|
2015
|
2014
|
2013
|
2012
|
2011
|
2010
|
2009
|
2008
|
2007
|
2006
|
2005
|
2004
|
2003
|
2002
|
2001
|
2000
|
1995
|
1990
|
1985
|
1980
|
1975
|
1970
|
1965
|
US dollar
|
58.41%
|
58.52%
|
58.80%
|
58.92%
|
60.75%
|
61.76%
|
62.73%
|
65.36%
|
65.73%
|
65.14%
|
61.24%
|
61.47%
|
62.59%
|
62.14%
|
62.05%
|
63.77%
|
63.87%
|
65.04%
|
66.51%
|
65.51%
|
65.45%
|
66.50%
|
71.51%
|
71.13%
|
58.96%
|
47.14%
|
56.66%
|
57.88%
|
84.61%
|
84.85%
|
72.93%
|
Euro
(until 1999 -
ECU
)
|
19.98%
|
20.40%
|
20.59%
|
21.29%
|
20.59%
|
20.67%
|
20.17%
|
19.14%
|
19.14%
|
21.20%
|
24.20%
|
24.05%
|
24.40%
|
25.71%
|
27.66%
|
26.21%
|
26.14%
|
24.99%
|
23.89%
|
24.68%
|
25.03%
|
23.65%
|
19.18%
|
18.29%
|
8.53%
|
11.64%
|
14.00%
|
17.46%
|
|
|
|
Japanese yen
|
5.70%
|
5.51%
|
5.52%
|
6.03%
|
5.87%
|
5.19%
|
4.90%
|
3.95%
|
3.75%
|
3.54%
|
3.82%
|
4.09%
|
3.61%
|
3.66%
|
2.90%
|
3.47%
|
3.18%
|
3.46%
|
3.96%
|
4.28%
|
4.42%
|
4.94%
|
5.04%
|
6.06%
|
6.77%
|
9.40%
|
8.69%
|
3.93%
|
0.61%
|
|
|
Pound sterling
|
4.84%
|
4.92%
|
4.81%
|
4.73%
|
4.64%
|
4.43%
|
4.54%
|
4.35%
|
4.71%
|
3.70%
|
3.98%
|
4.04%
|
3.83%
|
3.94%
|
4.25%
|
4.22%
|
4.82%
|
4.52%
|
3.75%
|
3.49%
|
2.86%
|
2.92%
|
2.70%
|
2.75%
|
2.11%
|
2.39%
|
2.03%
|
2.40%
|
3.42%
|
11.36%
|
25.76%
|
Canadian dollar
|
2.58%
|
2.38%
|
2.38%
|
2.08%
|
1.86%
|
1.84%
|
2.03%
|
1.94%
|
1.77%
|
1.75%
|
1.83%
|
1.42%
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Chinese renminbi
|
2.29%
|
2.61%
|
2.80%
|
2.29%
|
1.94%
|
1.89%
|
1.23%
|
1.08%
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Australian dollar
|
2.11%
|
1.97%
|
1.84%
|
1.83%
|
1.70%
|
1.63%
|
1.80%
|
1.69%
|
1.77%
|
1.59%
|
1.82%
|
1.46%
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Swiss franc
|
0.23%
|
0.23%
|
0.17%
|
0.17%
|
0.15%
|
0.14%
|
0.18%
|
0.16%
|
0.27%
|
0.24%
|
0.27%
|
0.21%
|
0.08%
|
0.13%
|
0.12%
|
0.14%
|
0.16%
|
0.17%
|
0.15%
|
0.17%
|
0.23%
|
0.41%
|
0.25%
|
0.27%
|
0.33%
|
0.84%
|
1.40%
|
2.25%
|
1.34%
|
0.61%
|
|
Deutsche Mark
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
15.75%
|
19.83%
|
13.74%
|
12.92%
|
6.62%
|
1.94%
|
0.17%
|
French franc
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2.35%
|
2.71%
|
0.58%
|
0.97%
|
1.16%
|
0.73%
|
1.11%
|
Dutch guilder
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
0.32%
|
1.15%
|
0.78%
|
0.89%
|
0.66%
|
0.08%
|
|
Other currencies
|
3.87%
|
3.48%
|
3.09%
|
2.65%
|
2.51%
|
2.45%
|
2.43%
|
2.33%
|
2.86%
|
2.83%
|
2.84%
|
3.26%
|
5.49%
|
4.43%
|
3.04%
|
2.20%
|
1.83%
|
1.81%
|
1.74%
|
1.87%
|
2.01%
|
1.58%
|
1.31%
|
1.49%
|
4.87%
|
4.89%
|
2.13%
|
1.29%
|
1.58%
|
0.43%
|
0.03%
|
|
Source:
World Currency Composition of Official Foreign Exchange Reserves
International Monetary Fund
|
The percental composition of currencies of official foreign
exchange reserves
from 1995 to 2022.
[15]
[16]
[17]
Theory
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Economists debate whether a single reserve currency will always dominate the global economy.
[18]
Many have recently argued that one currency will almost always dominate due to
network externalities
(sometimes called "the network effect"), especially in the field of invoicing trade and denominating foreign debt securities, meaning that there are strong incentives to conform to the choice that dominates the marketplace. The argument is that, in the absence of sufficiently large shocks, a currency that dominates the marketplace will not lose much ground to challengers.
However, some economists, such as
Barry Eichengreen
, argue that this is not as true when it comes to the denomination of official reserves because the network externalities are not strong. As long as the currency's market is sufficiently liquid, the benefits of reserve diversification are strong, as it insures against large capital losses. The implication is that the world may well soon begin to move away from a financial system dominated uniquely by the US dollar. In the first half of the 20th century, multiple currencies did share the status as primary reserve currencies. Although the British Sterling was the largest currency, both the French franc and the German mark shared large portions of the market until the First World War, after which the mark was replaced by the dollar. Since the Second World War, the dollar has dominated official reserves, but this is likely a reflection of the unusual domination of the American economy during this period, as well as official discouragement of reserve status from the potential rivals, Germany and Japan.
The top reserve currency is generally selected by the banking community for the strength and stability of the economy in which it is used. Thus, as a currency becomes less stable, or its economy becomes less dominant, bankers may over time abandon it for a currency issued by a larger or more stable economy. This can take a relatively long time, as recognition is important in determining a reserve currency. For example, it took many years after the United States overtook the United Kingdom as the world's largest economy before the dollar overtook the pound sterling as the dominant global reserve currency.
[1]
In 1944, when the US dollar was chosen as the world reference currency at Bretton Woods, it was only the second currency in global reserves.
[1]
The
G8
also frequently issues public statements as to
exchange rates
. In the past due to the
Plaza Accord
, its predecessor bodies could directly manipulate rates to reverse large
trade deficits
.
Major reserve currencies
[
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]
United States dollar
[
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]
The
United States dollar
is the most widely held currency in the allocated reserves. As of the fourth quarter of 2022, the USD accounted for 58.36% of official foreign exchange reserves.
[19]
[20]
This makes it somewhat easier for the United States to run higher trade deficits with greatly postponed economic ramifications or even postponing a
currency crisis
. Central bank US dollar reserves, however, are small compared to private holdings of such debt. If non-United States holders of dollar-denominated assets decided to shift holdings to assets denominated in other currencies, then there could be serious consequences for the US economy. The decline of the pound sterling took place gradually over time, and the markets involved adjusted accordingly.
[1]
However, the US dollar remains the preferred reserve currency because of its stability along with assets such as
United States Treasury security
that have both scale and liquidity.
[21]
[
needs update
]
The US dollar's position in global reserves is often questioned because of the growing share of unallocated reserves, and because of the doubt regarding dollar stability in the long term.
[22]
[23]
However, in the aftermath of the 2008 to 2010 financial crisis, the dollar's share in the world's foreign-exchange trades rose slightly from 85% in 2010 to 87% in 2013.
[24]
[
better source needed
]
[
needs update
]
The dollar's role as the undisputed reserve currency of the world allows the United States to impose unilateral sanctions against actions performed between other countries, for example the American fine against
BNP Paribas
for violations of U.S. sanctions that were not laws of France or the other countries involved in the transactions.
[25]
In 2014, China and Russia signed a 150 billion yuan
central bank liquidity swap
line agreement to get around European and American sanctions on their behaviors.
[26]
[
better source needed
]
Euro
[
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]
The
euro
is currently the second most commonly held reserve currency, representing about 20% of international foreign currency reserves. After World War II and the
rebuilding of the German economy
, the
German mark
gained the status of the second most important reserve currency after the US dollar. When the euro was
introduced
on 1 January 1999, replacing the mark,
French franc
and ten other European currencies, it inherited the status of a major reserve currency from the mark. Since then, its contribution to official reserves has risen continually as banks seek to diversify their reserves, and trade in the
eurozone
continues to expand.
[27]
After the
euro
's share of global official foreign exchange reserves approached 25% as of year-end 2006 (vs 65% for the
U.S. dollar
; see table above), some experts have predicted that the euro could replace the dollar as the world's primary reserve currency. See
Alan Greenspan
, 2007;
[28]
and Frankel, Chinn (2006) who explained how it could happen by 2020.
[29]
[30]
However, as of 2022 none of this has come to fruition due to the
European debt crisis
which engulfed the
PIIGS countries
from 2009 to 2014. Instead the euro's stability and future existence was put into doubt, and its share of global reserves was cut to 19% by year-end 2015 (vs 66% for the USD). As of year-end 2020 these figures stand at 21% for EUR and 59% for USD.
Pound sterling
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]
The United Kingdom's
pound sterling
was the primary reserve currency of much of the world in the 19th century and first half of the 20th century.
[1]
That status ended when the UK almost bankrupted itself fighting
World War I
[31]
and
World War II
[32]
and its place was taken by the United States dollar.
In the 1950s, 55% of global reserves were still held in sterling; but the share was 10% lower within 20 years.
[1]
[33]
The establishment of the U.S.
Federal Reserve System
in 1913 and the economic vacuum following the World Wars facilitated the emergence of the United States as an economic superpower.
[34]
As of 30 September 2021
[update]
, the pound sterling represented the fourth largest proportion (by USD equivalent value) of foreign currency reserves and 4.78% of those reserves.
[35]
Japanese yen
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]
Japan's
yen
is part of the
International Monetary Fund
's (IMF)
special drawing rights
(SDR) valuation. The SDR currency value is determined daily by the IMF, based on the exchange rates of the currencies making up the basket, as quoted at noon at the London market. The valuation basket is reviewed and adjusted every five years.
[36]
The SDR Values and yen conversion for government procurement are used by the
Japan External Trade Organization
for Japan's official procurement in
international trade
.
[37]
Chinese renminbi
[
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]
The currency of China is the renminbi; the
yuan
is its primary unit
The Chinese renminbi officially became a supplementary forex reserve asset on 1 October 2016.
[38]
It represents 10.92% of the IMF's
Special Drawing Rights
(SDR) currency basket.
[39]
[40]
The Chinese renmimbi is the third reserve currency after the U.S. dollar and euro within the basket of currencies in the SDR.
[39]
(As shown in the
table above
, the renmimbi is the fifth largest component of international currency reserves.)
Canadian dollar
[
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]
A number of central banks (and commercial banks) keep
Canadian dollars
as a reserve currency. In the economy of the Americas, the Canadian dollar plays a similar role to that played by the
Australian dollar
(AUD) in the
Asia-Pacific
region. The Canadian dollar (as a regional reserve currency for banking) has been an important part of the British, French and Dutch Caribbean states' economies and finance systems since the 1950s.
[41]
The Canadian dollar is also held by many central banks in Central America and South America. It is held in Latin America because of
remittances
and international trade in the region.
[41]
Because Canada's primary foreign-trade relationship is with the United States, Canadian consumers, economists, and many businesses primarily define and value the Canadian dollar in terms of the United States dollar. Thus, by observing how the Canadian dollar floats in terms of the US dollar, foreign-exchange economists can indirectly observe internal behaviours and patterns in the US economy that could not be seen by direct observation. Also, because it is considered a
petrodollar
, the Canadian dollar has only fully evolved into a global reserve currency since the 1970s, when it was floated against all other world currencies.
The Canadian dollar, from 2013 to 2017, was ranked fifth among foreign currency reserves in the world, overtaking Australian Dollar, but is then being overtaken by Chinese Yuan.
[42]
Swiss franc
[
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]
The
Swiss franc
, despite gaining ground among the world's foreign-currency reserves
[43]
and being often used in denominating foreign loans,
[44]
cannot be considered as a world reserve currency, since the share of all foreign exchange reserves held in Swiss francs has historically been well below 0.5%. The daily trading market turnover of the franc, however, ranked fifth, or about 3.4%, among all currencies in a 2007 survey by the
Bank for International Settlements
.
[45]
Calls for an alternative reserve currency
[
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]
John Maynard Keynes
proposed the
bancor
, a supranational currency to be used as unit of account in international trade, as reserve currency under the
Bretton Woods Conference
of 1945. The bancor was rejected in favor of the
U.S. dollar
.
A report released by the
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
in 2010, called for abandoning the U.S. dollar as the single major reserve currency. The report states that the new reserve system should not be based on a single currency or even multiple national currencies but instead permit the emission of international liquidity to create a more stable global financial system.
[46]
[47]
[48]
[49]
Countries such as Russia and China, central banks, and economic analysts and groups, such as the
Gulf Cooperation Council
, have expressed a desire to see an independent new currency replace the dollar as the reserve currency. However, it is recognized that the US dollar remains the strongest reserve currency.
[50]
On 10 July 2009, Russian President Medvedev proposed a new '
World currency
' at the G8 meeting in London as an alternative reserve currency to replace the dollar.
[51]
At the beginning of the 21st century, gold and
crude oil
were still priced in dollars, which helps export inflation and has brought complaints about
OPEC
's policies of managing
oil quotas
to maintain dollar
price stability
.
[52]
Due to the
Russian invasion of Ukraine
and international sanctions, Russia has used the
United Arab Emirates dirham
as a neutral currency when selling oil to India.
[53]
[54]
Special drawing rights
[
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]
Some have proposed the use of the
International Monetary Fund
's (IMF)
special drawing rights
(SDRs) as a reserve. The value of SDRs are calculated from a basket determined by the IMF of key international currencies, which as of 2016 consisted of the
United States dollar
,
euro
,
renminbi
,
yen
, and
pound sterling
.
Ahead of a
G20
summit in 2009, China distributed a paper that proposed using SDRs for clearing international payments and eventually as a reserve currency to replace the U.S. dollar.
[55]
On 3 September 2009, the
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
(UNCTAD) issued a report calling for a new reserve currency based on the SDR, managed by a new global reserve bank.
[56]
The IMF released a report in February 2011, stating that using SDRs "could help stabilize the global financial system."
[57]
The SDR itself is only a minuscule fraction of global currency reserves.
[58]
Cryptocurrencies
[
edit
]
According to some experts, digital
cryptocurrencies
could potentially replace fiat currencies as a possible global reserve currency.
[59]
See also
[
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]
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]
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- ^
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,
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- ^
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.
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