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The official exchange rate set by the Central Bank of Nigeria: naira to U.S. dollar is approximately ₦767.54 per 1 US dollar. This rate is almost two times different from the illegal black market exchange rate. The Black-Market exchange rate of the naira to the U.S. dollar is approximately ₦752.50 per 1 US dollar.
Also, in many African currencies there have been episodes of rampant inflation, resulting in the need for currency revaluation (e.g. the Zimbabwe dollar). In some places there is a thriving street trade by unlicensed street traders in US dollars or other stable currencies, which are seen as a hedge against local inflation. The exchange rate is ...
The exchange rate of the currencies as well the as gold price of the reported date is considered while calculating U.S.$ equivalents. Not all countries keep gold as reserves to avoid physical storage costs & the risks associated with it, hence there are no values in excluding gold column. Sorting the data in desirable column would provide rankings.
Rank Country Nominal GDP (Billion US$) [1] Per Capita (US$) [1] 1 South Africa 400.000 [6]: 6,451 2 Egypt 347.594 3,225 3 Algeria 266.780 5,722 4 Nigeria 252.738 1,110 5 Ethiopia
The foreign exchange market ( forex, FX (pronounced "fix"), or currency market) is a global decentralized or over-the-counter (OTC) market for the trading of currencies. This market determines foreign exchange rates for every currency. It includes all aspects of buying, selling and exchanging currencies at current or determined prices.
Purchasing power parity is an economic term for measuring prices at different locations. It is based on the law of one price, which says that, if there are no transaction costs nor trade barriers for a particular good, then the price for that good should be the same at every location. [ 1] Ideally, a computer in New York and in Hong Kong should ...
The Big Mac Index is a price index published since 1986 by The Economist as an informal way of measuring the purchasing power parity (PPP) between two currencies and providing a test of the extent to which market exchange rates result in goods costing the same in different countries. It "seeks to make exchange-rate theory a bit more digestible ...
One rand was worth US$1.40 (R0.72 per dollar) from the time of its inception in 1961 until late 1971, and the U.S. dollar became stronger than South African currency for the first time on 15 March 1982. [9]