Total reserves

Reserve assets are external assets, including monetary gold, that are readily available to and controlled by monetary authorities for meeting balance of payments financing needs, for intervention in exchange markets to affect the currency exchange rate, and for other related purposes (such as maintaining confidence in the currency and the economy, and serving as a basis for foreign borrowing). Reserve assets must be denominated and settled in foreign currency. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of total external debt which are all liabilities that require payment(s) of interest and/or principal by the debtor at some point(s) in the future and that are owed to non-residents by residents of an economy.

Publisher
World Bank
Unit
Cadence
Annual
Series
112
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Updated
2026-09-06

Provenance

Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.

  1. Produced by

    World Bank

    International Debt Statistics, World Bank (WB)

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Albania202460.82percent
Algeria20241203.30percent
Angola202424.25percent
Argentina202412.20percent
Armenia202422.48percent
Azerbaijan2024104.10percent
Bangladesh202420.48percent
Belarus202426.05percent
Belize202431.95percent
Bhutan202427.68percent

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