Brazil: Foreign exchange reserves
(measure: billion U.S. Dollar, source: Central Bank of Brazil)
* indicates monthly or quarterly data series
Foreign exchange reserves, billion currency units in Brazil
, January 1960 - April 2021: For that indicator, we provide data for Brazil from January 1960 to April 2021. The average value for Brazil during that period was 87.97 billion U.S. Dollar with a minimum of 0.06 billion U.S. Dollar in July 1964 and a maximum of 386.48 billion U.S. Dollar in August 2019. Click on the following link to see the values of Foreign exchange reserves, billion currency units around the world.
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Measure: billion U.S. Dollar
Source: Central Bank of Brazil
Source: Central Bank of Brazil
Definition: Foreign exchange reserves consist of foreign currency, deposits denominated in foreign
currency, Monetary Gold, Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) and Reserve position in the
International Monetary Fund (IMF). Foreign exchange reserves are held by monetary authorities
to finance trade imbalances, check the impact of foreign exchange fluctuations and address
other issues under the purview of the central bank.