Kyrgyz Republic - Official exchange rate (LCU per US$, period average)

The value for Official exchange rate (LCU per US$, period average) in Kyrgyz Republic was 84.64 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 27 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 84.64 in 2021 and a minimum value of 10.82 in 1995.

Definition: Official exchange rate refers to the exchange rate determined by national authorities or to the rate determined in the legally sanctioned exchange market. It is calculated as an annual average based on monthly averages (local currency units relative to the U.S. dollar).

Source: International Monetary Fund, International Financial Statistics.

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Year Value
1994 10.84
1995 10.82
1996 12.81
1997 17.36
1998 20.84
1999 39.01
2000 47.70
2001 48.38
2002 46.94
2003 43.65
2004 42.65
2005 41.01
2006 40.15
2007 37.32
2008 36.57
2009 42.90
2010 45.96
2011 46.14
2012 47.00
2013 48.44
2014 53.65
2015 64.46
2016 69.91
2017 68.87
2018 68.84
2019 69.79
2020 77.35
2021 84.64

Development Relevance: In a market-based economy, household, producer, and government choices about resource allocation are influenced by relative prices, including the real exchange rate, real wages, real interest rates, and other prices in the economy. Relative prices also largely reflect these agents' choices. Thus relative prices convey vital information about the interaction of economic agents in an economy and with the rest of the world.

Limitations and Exceptions: Official or market exchange rates are often used to convert economic statistics in local currencies to a common currency in order to make comparisons across countries. Since market rates reflect at best the relative prices of tradable goods, the volume of goods and services that a U.S. dollar buys in the United States may not correspond to what a U.S. dollar converted to another country's currency at the official exchange rate would buy in that country, particularly when nontradable goods and services account for a significant share of a country's output. An alternative exchange rate - the purchasing power parity (PPP) conversion factor - is preferred because it reflects differences in price levels for both tradable and nontradable goods and services and therefore provides a more meaningful comparison of real output.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: The exchange rate is the price of one currency in terms of another. Official exchange rates and exchange rate arrangements are established by governments. Other exchange rates recognized by governments include market rates, which are determined largely by legal market forces, and for countries with multiple exchange arrangements, principal rates, secondary rates, and tertiary rates.

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Financial Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Exchange rates & prices