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Total reserves comprise holdings of monetary gold, special drawing rights, reserves of IMF members held by the IMF, and holdings of foreign exchange under the control of monetary authorities. The gold component of these reserves is valued at year-end (December 31) London prices. This item shows reserves expressed in terms of the number of months of imports of goods and services they could pay for [Reserves/(Imports/12)].

Rank	Country	Value
Total reserves in months of imports - Reserves & other items - Balance of payments - Economic Policy & Debt - World Development Indicators (2008)
1	Libya	38.68
2	China	18.25
3	Botswana	16.71
4	East Asia & Pacific	16.44
5	Lower middle income	15.19
6	Bolivia	14.11
7	Middle income	13.24
8	Japan	13.19
9	Macau	13.12
10	Low & middle income	13.11
11	Russia	10.76
12	Nigeria	10.54
13	Lebanon	10.44
14	Upper middle income	9.55
15	Peru	8.53
16	Brazil	8.51
17	India	7.91
18	Europe & Central Asia	7.90
19	Venezuela	7.67
20	High income: nonOECD	7.64
21	South Asia	7.54
22	Sub-Saharan Africa	7.07
23	Yemen	7.03
24	High income	6.94
25	Argentina	6.89
26	High income: OECD	6.70
27	Uruguay	6.66
28	Latin America & Caribbean	6.59
29	Thailand	6.03
30	Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC)	6.02
31	Egypt	5.97
32	Philippines	5.94
33	Burundi	5.87
34	Morocco	5.67
35	Malaysia	5.59
36	Jordan	5.46
37	Kuwait	5.41
38	Israel	5.32
39	Colombia	5.03
40	Rwanda	4.89
41	Uganda	4.89
42	Romania	4.84
43	Serbia	4.78
44	Oman	4.62
45	Bulgaria	4.62
46	Singapore	4.60
47	South Korea	4.50
48	North Korea	4.50
49	Azerbaijan	4.48
50	Cameroon	4.30
51	Tanzania	4.16
52	Least developed countries: UN classification	4.07
53	Hong Kong	4.02
54	Croatia	3.95
55	Turkey	3.91
56	Cambodia	3.90
57	Sierra Leone	3.84
58	Mozambique	3.83
59	Low income	3.81
60	Indonesia	3.79
61	Albania	3.73
62	Tunisia	3.70
63	Angola	3.69
64	Ukraine	3.54
65	Norway	3.48
66	Paraguay	3.47
67	Gambia	3.40
68	Moldova	3.35
69	South Africa	3.33
70	Kazakhstan	3.31
71	Guatemala	3.28
72	Namibia	3.27
73	Suriname	3.23
74	Vietnam	3.22
75	Armenia	3.20
76	Macedonia	3.20
77	Mexico	3.19
78	Iceland	3.15
79	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3.12
80	Mauritius	3.10
81	Chile	3.09
82	St. Kitts and Nevis	3.08
83	Kyrgyzstan	3.01
84	Latvia	2.97
85	Djibouti	2.95
86	Poland	2.88
87	Guyana	2.75
88	Kenya	2.70
89	El Salvador	2.70
90	Hungary	2.67
91	Bangladesh	2.64
92	Costa Rica	2.60
93	Slovakia	2.60
94	Ivory Coast	2.57
95	Grenada	2.51
96	Nicaragua	2.47
97	Honduras	2.47
98	Cape Verde	2.45
99	Czech Republic	2.44
100	New Zealand	2.44
101	Denmark	2.40
102	Ecuador	2.38
103	Switzerland	2.30
104	Haiti	2.25
105	Dominica	2.25
106	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	2.25
107	Brunei Darussalam	2.22
108	Saudi Arabia	2.20
109	Georgia	2.18
110	Estonia	2.17
111	Lithuania	2.13
112	Pakistan	2.04
113	St. Lucia	2.02
114	Jamaica	1.94
115	Zambia	1.91
116	Sri Lanka	1.87
117	Belize	1.78
118	Maldives	1.75
119	Antigua and Barbuda	1.61
120	Italy	1.54
121	Aruba	1.51
122	Bahamas	1.41
123	Dominican Republic	1.34
124	Sweden	1.25
125	Australia	1.24
126	Sudan	1.21
127	France	1.17
128	United States	1.11
129	Euro area	1.09
130	Ethiopia	1.08
131	Portugal	1.07
132	Canada	0.93
133	Germany	0.92
134	Belarus	0.86
135	Austria	0.74
136	Finland	0.71
137	Liberia	0.64
138	Cyprus	0.54
139	United Kingdom	0.50
140	Netherlands	0.48
141	Malta	0.42
142	Spain	0.37
143	Belgium	0.32
144	Greece	0.29
145	Slovenia	0.27
146	Ireland	0.03
147	Luxembourg	0.02

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