Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5A

Current Release

Release Date: January 4, 2016

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 2015 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.

COUNTRY CURRENCY 2015 2014 2013 2012
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.7522 0.9034 0.9683 1.0359
BRAZIL REAL 3.3360 2.3512 2.1570 1.9535
CANADA DOLLAR 1.2791 1.1043 1.0300 0.9995
CHINA,P.R. YUAN 6.2827 6.1620 6.1478 6.3093
DENMARK KRONE 6.7263 5.6151 5.6170 5.7922
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.1096 1.3297 1.3281 1.2859
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7524 7.7545 7.7565 7.7569
INDIA RUPEE 64.11 61.00 58.51 53.37
JAPAN YEN 121.05 105.74 97.60 79.82
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.9041 3.2697 3.1488 3.0862
MEXICO PESO 15.873 13.302 12.758 13.154
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.7001 0.8313 0.8204 0.8105
NORWAY KRONE 8.0681 6.2969 5.8772 5.8181
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.3746 1.2665 1.2511 1.2492
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 12.7645 10.8420 9.6436 8.2014
SOUTH KOREA WON 1130.96 1052.29 1094.67 1126.16
SRI LANKA RUPEE 135.869 130.536 129.046 127.539
SWEDEN KRONA 8.4350 6.8576 6.5124 6.7721
SWITZERLAND FRANC 0.9628 0.9147 0.9269 0.9377
TAIWAN DOLLAR 31.744 30.299 29.680 29.558
THAILAND BAHT 34.241 32.461 30.696 31.055
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.5284 1.6484 1.5642 1.5853
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 6.28 6.28 6.07 4.29
Memo:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR  
1) BROAD JAN97=100 117.28 104.16 100.98 99.82
2) MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 91.12 78.43 75.93 73.54
3) OITP JAN97=100 144.81 131.59 127.76 128.24

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
Last update: January 4, 2016