Foreign Reserves rose by $11.2 million over November
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- Created: 13 December 2017
Official foreign reserves held by the National Reserve Bank of Tonga (NRBT) rose by $11.2 million over the month of November 2017 to $424.8 million, equivalent to 7.6 months of imports. Over the past year, the official foreign reserves rose by $63.9 million.
OFFICIAL FOREIGN RESERVES
(millions of pa'anga)
| Level | Changes |
Ration of official foreign reserves to imports i (months) | ||
| Month | 12 Months | |||
| 2016 | ||||
| May | 330.7 | 7.8 | 48.9 | 6.9 |
| Jun | 354.9 | 24.2 | 65.2 | 7.1 |
| Jul | 367.4 | 12.5 | 64.8 | 7.2 |
| Aug | 366.3 | -1.1 | 55.4 | 7.0 |
| Sep | 363.7 | -2.6 | 52.0 | 6.9 |
| Oct | 367.0 | 3.3 | 51.2 | 7.0r |
| Nov | 360.9 | -6.1 | 41.9 | 6.8r |
| Dec | 378.8 | 17.9 | 51.0 | 7.0r |
| 2017 | ||||
| Jan | 380.8 | 2.0 | 54.5 | 7.2r |
| Feb | 377.7 | -3.1 | 49.2 | 7.0r |
| Mar | 366.0 | -11.7 | 48.7 | 6.8r |
| Apr | 371.7 | 5.7 | 48.8 | 6.8r |
| May | 392.3 | 20.6 | 61.6 | 7.2r |
| Jun | 407.9 | 15.6 | 53.0 | 7.7r |
| Jul | 408.9 | 1.0 | 41.5 | 7.6r |
| Aug | 405.0 | -3.9 | 38.7 | 7.5r |
| Sep | 403.0 | -2.0 | 39.3 | 7.3r |
| Oct | 413.6 | 10.6 | 46.6 | 7.5 |
| Nov | 424.8 | 11.2 | 63.9 | 7.6 |
| Source: National Reserve Bank of Tonga |
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| i - Method of calculation changed in February 2017 to include imports of both goods and services (previous method used imports of goods only). | ||||
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