Official Foreign Reserves for August 2015
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- Created: 15 September 2015
Official foreign reserves held by the National Reserve Bank of Tonga (NRBT) rose by $8.3 million over August 2015, to $310.9 million, equivalent to 8.6 months of imports. Official foreign reserves rose by $27.0 million over the past year.
OFFICIAL FOREIGN RESERVES
(millions of pa'anga)
| Level | Changes |
Ration of official foreign reserves to imports (months) | ||
| Month | 12 Months | |||
| 2014 | ||||
| Mar | 274.8 | -6.3 | 30.0 | 9.1 |
| Apr | 267.9 | -6.9 | 9.5 | 8.9 |
| May | 266.8 | -1.1 | 7.6 | 8.9 |
| Jun | 274.4 | 7.6 | 11.1 | 9.1 |
| Jul | 280.4 | 6.0 | 27.7 | 9.1 |
| Aug | 283.9 | 3.5 | 27.7 | 9.1 |
| Sep | 270.9 | -13.0 | 16.7 | 8.4 |
| Oct | 271.5 | 0.6 | 10.9 | 8.2 |
| Nov | 267.9 | -3.6 | 2.5 | 8.0 |
| Dec | 293.6 | 25.7 | 21.8 | 8.7 |
| 2015 | ||||
| Jan | 287.2 | -6.4 | 10.5 | 8.5 |
| Feb | 281.3 | -5.9 | 0.2 | 8.3 |
| Mar | 270.2 | -11.1 | -4.6 | 7.9 |
| Apr | 272.1 | 1.9 | 4.2 | 7.9 r |
| May | 281.8 | 9.7 | 15.0 | 8.0 |
| Jun | 289.7 | 7.9 | 15.3 | 8.2 |
| Jul | 302.6 | 12.9 | 22.2 | 8.6 |
| August | 310.9 | 8.3 | 27.0 | 8.6 |
| Source: National Reserve Bank of Tonga |
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| r - Revisions based on latest trade data issued by Tonga Department of Statistics for June 2015 . |
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