Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5A

Current Release

Release Date: January 3, 2012

Foreign Exchange Rates -- G.5A Annual

(Rates in currency units per U.S. dollar except as noted)

The table below shows the average rates of exchange in 2011 together with comparable figures for other years. Averages are based on daily noon buying rates for cable transfers in New York City certified for customs purposes by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Starting in January, Estonia switched to the euro with a fixed conversion rate of 1 euro = 15.6466 Estonian kroon. This change is reflected in the note at the bottom.

COUNTRY	CURRENCY	2011	2010	2009	2008
*AUSTRALIA	DOLLAR	1.0332	0.9200	0.7927	0.8537
BRAZIL	REAL	1.6723	1.7600	1.9976	1.8326
CANADA	DOLLAR	0.9887	1.0298	1.1412	1.0660
CHINA,P.R.	YUAN	6.4630	6.7696	6.8307	6.9477
DENMARK	KRONE	5.3535	5.6265	5.3574	5.0885
*EMU MEMBERS	EURO	1.3931	1.3261	1.3935	1.4726
HONG KONG	DOLLAR	7.7841	7.7687	7.7514	7.7862
INDIA	RUPEE	46.58	45.65	48.33	43.39
JAPAN	YEN	79.70	87.78	93.68	103.39
MALAYSIA	RINGGIT	3.0564	3.2175	3.5231	3.3292
MEXICO	PESO	12.427	12.624	13.498	11.143
*NEW ZEALAND	DOLLAR	0.7920	0.7216	0.6358	0.7151
NORWAY	KRONE	5.6022	6.0451	6.2908	5.6365
SINGAPORE	DOLLAR	1.2565	1.3629	1.4543	1.4140
SOUTH AFRICA	RAND	7.2510	7.3159	8.4117	8.2480
SOUTH KOREA	WON	1106.94	1155.74	1274.63	1098.71
SRI LANKA	RUPEE	110.469	112.990	114.909	108.298
SWEDEN	KRONA	6.4878	7.2053	7.6539	6.5846
SWITZERLAND	FRANC	0.8862	1.0432	1.0860	1.0816
TAIWAN	DOLLAR	29.382	31.497	33.020	31.521
THAILAND	BAHT	30.462	31.700	34.310	32.962
*UNITED KINGDOM	POUND	1.6043	1.5452	1.5661	1.8545
VENEZUELA	BOLIVAR	4.29	4.24	2.14	2.14
Memo:
UNITED STATES	DOLLAR
1) BROAD	JAN97=100	97.17	101.85	105.69	99.90
2) MAJOR CURRENCY	MAR73=100	70.88	75.39	77.69	74.42
3) OITP	JAN97=100	125.76	130.37	135.91	126.80

This release is available online at http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/g5a.
For more information on exchange rate indexes for the U.S. dollar, see "Indexes of the Foreign Exchange Value of the Dollar," Federal Reserve Bulletin, 91:1 (Winter 200,5), pp. 1-8 (http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/bulletin2005/winter05_index.pdf). Weights for the major currencies index and the other important trading partners (OITP) index are derived from the broad index weights. The source for exchange rates not listed in the table above but used in the calculation of the broad and OITP indexes is Bloomberg.
* U.S. dollars per currency unit.
1) A weighted average of the foreign exchange value of the U.S. dollar against the currencies of a broad group of major U.S. trading partners.
2) A weighted average of the foreign exchange value of the U.S. dollar against a subset of the broad index currencies that circulate widely outside the country of issue.
3) A weighted average of the foreign exchange value of the U.S. dollar against a subset of the broad index currencies that do not circulate widely outside the country of issue.
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The euro is reported in place of the individual euro-area curriencies. These currency rates can be derived from the euro rate by using the fixed conversion rates (in currencies per euro) given below:

1 EURO

= 13.7603 AUSTRIAN SCHILLINGS
= 40.3399 BELGIAN FRANCS
= .585274 CYPRUS POUND
= 15.6466 ESTONIAN KROON
= 5.94573 FINNISH MARKKAS
= 6.55957 FRENCH FRANCS
= 1.95583 GERMAN MARKS
= 340.750 GREEK DRACHMAS
= .787564 IRISH POUNDS
= 1936.27 ITALIAN LIRE
= 40.3399 LUXEMBOURG FRANCS
= .429300 MALTESE LIRA
= 2.20371 NETHERLANDS GUILDERS
= 200.482 PORTUGUESE ESCUDOS
= 166.386 SPANISH PESETAS
= 30.1260 SLOVAKIAN KORUNA
= 239.640 SLOVENIAN TOLAR