Import cover provided by total reserves
Compare import cover provided by total reserves across 86 ISO-mapped countries or territories using one fixed 2025 official-source slice.
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Key Insights
- •86 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite 2025 observation.
- •Saudi Arabia has the highest published value (15.5945460088131 months of imports).
- •Luxembourg has the lowest published value (0.0634965031275956 months of imports).
Country Rankings
Top 10 Countries
Bottom 10 Countries
Data Analysis
Value Distribution
How countries are distributed across the value range
Regional Comparison
Average values by world region (Global avg: 5.1months of imports)
About This Statistic
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 item is expressed in terms of the number of months of imports of goods and services they could pay for [X/(Imports/12)].
MapTheory retains one fixed year, unit and explicit source slice. Only finite ISO-mapped observations are included; aggregates, missing values, non-ISO geographies and conflicting duplicates are excluded. No values are estimated or imputed by MapTheory.
Methodology
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 item is expressed in terms of the number of months of imports of goods and services they could pay for [X/(Imports/12)].
Full Data
| Rank ↑ | Country ↕ | Value ↕ |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saudi Arabia | 15.6months of imports |
| 2 | Israel | 14.5months of imports |
| 3 | Japan | 14.0months of imports |
| 4 | Switzerland | 13.2months of imports |
| 5 | Samoa | 12.4months of imports |
| 6 | People's Republic of China | 11.9months of imports |
| 7 | Peru | 10.4months of imports |
| 8 | Cape Verde | 8.7months of imports |
| 9 | Uruguay | 8.7months of imports |
| 10 | Brazil | 8.4months of imports |
| 11 | Kuwait | 8.4months of imports |
| 12 | Thailand | 8.0months of imports |
| 13 | Cambodia | 7.9months of imports |
| 14 | Brunei Darussalam | 7.9months of imports |
| 15 | India | 7.9months of imports |
| 16 | Czech Republic | 7.6months of imports |
| 17 | Qatar | 7.5months of imports |
| 18 | Kazakhstan | 7.4months of imports |
| 19 | Philippines | 7.3months of imports |
| 20 | Colombia | 7.3months of imports |
| 21 | Albania | 7.2months of imports |
| 22 | Bulgaria | 7.2months of imports |
| 23 | Nigeria | 7.1months of imports |
| 24 | South Korea | 6.5months of imports |
| 25 | South Africa | 6.2months of imports |
| 26 | Serbia | 6.2months of imports |
| 27 | Timor-Leste | 6.1months of imports |
| 28 | Morocco | 5.9months of imports |
| 29 | Poland | 5.9months of imports |
| 30 | Tajikistan | 5.7months of imports |
| 31 | Italy | 5.7months of imports |
| 32 | Romania | 5.5months of imports |
| 33 | Indonesia | 5.5months of imports |
| 34 | Moldova, Republic of | 5.4months of imports |
| 35 | Angola | 5.3months of imports |
| 36 | Iceland | 5.3months of imports |
| 37 | Honduras | 5.3months of imports |
| 38 | Azerbaijan | 5.0months of imports |
| 39 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 4.7months of imports |
| 40 | Costa Rica | 4.6months of imports |
| 41 | The Republic of North Macedonia | 4.6months of imports |
| 42 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 4.4months of imports |
| 43 | Singapore | 4.4months of imports |
| 44 | Norway | 4.4months of imports |
| 45 | Egypt | 4.4months of imports |
| 46 | Grenada | 4.4months of imports |
| 47 | Chile | 4.2months of imports |
| 48 | Argentina | 4.1months of imports |
| 49 | Dominican Republic | 4.0months of imports |
| 50 | Montenegro | 3.9months of imports |
| 51 | Bangladesh | 3.9months of imports |
| 52 | New Zealand | 3.9months of imports |
| 53 | Dominica | 3.9months of imports |
| 54 | Pakistan | 3.8months of imports |
| 55 | Mexico | 3.7months of imports |
| 56 | Hungary | 3.5months of imports |
| 57 | Belize | 3.5months of imports |
| 58 | France | 3.5months of imports |
| 59 | Armenia | 3.4months of imports |
| 60 | Suriname | 3.3months of imports |
| 61 | Germany | 3.1months of imports |
| 62 | Belarus | 3.0months of imports |
| 63 | Georgia | 3.0months of imports |
| 64 | Antigua and Barbuda | 3.0months of imports |
| 65 | Saint Lucia | 3.0months of imports |
| 66 | Ecuador | 2.9months of imports |
| 67 | United States of America | 2.8months of imports |
| 68 | El Salvador | 2.4months of imports |
| 69 | State of Palestine | 2.3months of imports |
| 70 | Sweden | 2.1months of imports |
| 71 | Spain | 2.0months of imports |
| 72 | Latvia | 2.0months of imports |
| 73 | Austria | 1.8months of imports |
| 74 | Panama | 1.7months of imports |
| 75 | Finland | 1.7months of imports |
| 76 | Canada | 1.6months of imports |
| 77 | Australia | 1.6months of imports |
| 78 | Slovakia | 1.5months of imports |
| 79 | United Kingdom | 1.4months of imports |
| 80 | Lithuania | 1.2months of imports |
| 81 | Belgium | 1.0months of imports |
| 82 | Estonia | 0.7months of imports |
| 83 | Slovenia | 0.7months of imports |
| 84 | Cyprus | 0.5months of imports |
| 85 | Bolivia | 0.5months of imports |
| 86 | Luxembourg | 0.1months of imports |
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Data Source
This data comes from World Bank World Development Indicators (2025).
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