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The Dollar's Share of World Reserves Since 1999

US dollar share of allocated official foreign exchange reserves, %

56.7% in Q2 2026−3.1 pp since Q2 2021

Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.

Continuation · the recent trend, flattening · 1 year

Dashed: the projection from the latest reading. Shaded: the range about two in three outcomes land in. A projection, not a promise.

Source: IMF COFER, quarterly. Shares move with exchange rates as well as with central banks' choices: a weaker dollar lowers its share even if no reserves are sold.

The single number behind the "de-dollarization" debate, quarter by quarter since the euro was created.

What this chart reads

Sources

US Dollar Share of Global FX Reserves (IMF COFER). Source: International Monetary Fund, Currency Composition of Official Foreign Exchange Reserves (COFER), read from the IMF data API (api.imf.org, dataflow IMF.STA/COFER). https://data.imf.org/ Attribution: Source: International Monetary Fund. Transformations by Palanor where stated. Palanor stores the IMF's figures as published, rounded to at most four significant decimals. IMF data is available free of charge from the IMF. Use follows the IMF Copyright and Usage terms, Special Terms for Statistical Data (imf.org/en/About/copyright-and-terms).

Charts are drawn from Palanor's signal library and recomputed from source data on every view. Transformations (changes, indexing, year-on-year rates) are Palanor's.

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