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In some cases governments try to influence the value of a currency by " intervening " in the currency market with buying or selling of currency. And in some cases governments set a fixed price of their currency with a so called " currency peg ". But no peg have ever lasted for a very long while. And no government have ever reversed the irreversible long term flow of supply and demand.
Data is for the year 2004.
Countries for which no information is available are not included in this list.
| Rank | Country | 2004 | 2003 |
|---|---|---|---|
| - | World Total (not per capita) (Trillion) | US$40.125 | 36.252 |
| - | World Total / Population (USCB) | 6,296 | 5,755 |
| 1 | Luxembourg | 66,279 | |
| 2 | Norway | 52,861 | |
| 3 | SwitzerlandThe Swiss Confederation or Switzerland is a landlocked federal state in central Europe, with neighbours Germany, France, Italy, Austria and Liechtenstein. The country has a strong tradition of political and military neutrality, but also of international c | 47,493 | |
| 4 | DenmarkKongeriget Danmark ( In Detail) Motto of the Queen: Guds hjaelp, Folkets kaerlighed, Danmarks styrke (English: God's help, the love of the people, Denmark's strength) Official language Danish Capital Copenhagen Kobenhavn Monarch Margrethe II Prime Ministe | 43,896 | |
| 5 | IrelandThe Republic of Ireland ( Irish: Poblacht na hEireann is the common term for a state which covers approximately five-sixths of the island of Ireland, off the coast of northwest Europe. It is the western-most state of the European Union. The remaining sixt | 43,862 | |
| 6 | IcelandThe Republic of Iceland is an island nation in the northern Atlantic Ocean, located between Greenland and Scotland, northwest of the Faroe Islands. Lydveldid Island ( In Detail) (Full size) National motto: none Official languageNone. Icelandic de facto''. | 41,875 | |
| 7 | United StatesThe United States of America also referred to as the United States U. America ¹ or the States is a federal republic in central North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west. It shares land borders with Canada in | 39,991 | 37,819 |
| 8 | SwedenThe Kingdom of Sweden Konungariket Sverige in Swedish) is a Nordic country in Scandinavia, in Northern Europe. It is bordered by Norway on the west, Finland on the northeast, the Skagerrak and the Kattegat on the southwest, and the Baltic Sea and the Gulf | 37,363 | |
| 9 | JapanJapan (, Nippon/Nihon literally "the origin of the sun") is a country in East Asia situated on a chain of islands east of the Asian continent on the western edge of the Pacific Ocean. The largest of these islands are, from north to south, Hokkaido , Honsh | 36,184 | |
| 10 | United Kingdom | 35,505 | |
| 11 | Netherlands | 34,836 | |
| 12 | Austria | 34,627 | |
| 13 | Finland | 34,318 | |
| 14 | Qatar | 33,570 | |
| 15 | Belgium | 32,979 | |
| 16 | Germany | 32,404 | |
| 17 | France | 32,153 | |
| 18 | Canada | 30,439 | |
| 19 | Australia | 29,712 | |
| 20 | Italy | 28,649 | |
| 21 | Singapore | 23,999 | |
| 22 | Hong Kong SAR | 23,592 | |
| 23 | Spain | 23,447 | |
| 24 | New Zealand | 23,120 | |
| 25 | United Arab Emirates | 21,410 | |
| 26 | Kuwait | 19,534 | |
| 27 | Cyprus | 18,098 | |
| 28 | Greece | 18,036 | |
| 29 | Bahamas | 17,432 | |
| 30 | Israel | 17,165 | |
| 31 | Netherlands Antilles | 16,759 | |
| 32 | Slovenia | 16,439 | |
| 33 | Portugal | 16,021 | |
| 34 | Brunei | 14,352 | |
| 35 | Korea | 13,806 | |
| 36 | Bahrain | 13,423 | |
| 37 | Taiwan | 13,359 | |
| 38 | Malta | 12,029 | |
| 39 | Antigua and Barbuda | 11,482 | |
| 40 | Saudi Arabia | 10,663 | |
| 41 | Barbados | 10,381 | |
| 42 | Oman | 10,235 | |
| 43 | Czech Republic | 10,058 | |
| 44 | Hungary | 10,015 | |
| 45 | Trinidad and Tobago | 9,545 | |
| 46 | Seychelles | 8,567 | |
| 47 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 8,195 | |
| 48 | Estonia | 8,058 | |
| 49 | Croatia | 7,336 | |
| 50 | Slovak Republic | 7,329 | |
| 51 | Mexico | 6,377 | |
| 52 | Lithuania | 6,212 | |
| 53 | Poland | 5,912 | |
| 54 | Latvia | 5,633 | |
| 55 | Chile | 5,571 | |
| 56 | Botswana | 5,503 | |
| 57 | Lebanon | 5,225 | |
| 58 | Libya | 5,209 | |
| 59 | Gabon | 5,140 | |
| 60 | Mauritius | 4,841 | |
| 61 | Panama | 4,615 | |
| 62 | Turkey | 4,428 | |
| 63 | Malaysia | 4,418 | |
| 64 | Grenada | 4,386 | |
| 65 | Costa Rica | 4,308 | |
| 66 | Equatorial Guinea | 4,032 | |
| 67 | Saint Lucia | 4,021 | |
| 68 | Venezuela | 4,019 | |
| 69 | Russia | 4,016 | |
| 70 | Belize | 3,977 | |
| 71 | Argentina | 3,740 | |
| 72 | South Africa | 3,687 | |
| 73 | Dominica | 3,643 | |
| 74 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 3,512 | |
| 75 | Uruguay | 3,489 | |
| 76 | Brazil | 3,182 | |
| 77 | Bulgaria | 3,059 | |
| 78 | Romania | 3,012 | |
| 79 | Jamaica | 2,986 | |
| 80 | Tunisia | 2,881 | |
| 81 | Serbia and Montenegro | 2,796 | |
| 82 | Suriname | 2,760 | |
| 83 | Kazakhstan | 2,580 | |
| 84 | Thailand | 2,556 | |
| 85 | Turkmenistan | 2,518 | |
| 86 | Belarus | 2,458 | |
| 87 | Algeria | 2,448 | |
| 88 | Iran | 2,429 | |
| 89 | FYR Macedonia | 2,399 | |
| 90 | Peru | 2,290 | |
| 91 | Maldives | 2,256 | |
| 92 | Namibia | 2,241 | |
| 93 | Albania | 2,230 | |
| 94 | Fiji | 2,143 | |
| 95 | Ecuador | 2,082 | |
| 96 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2,071 | |
| 97 | Tonga | 2,059 | |
| 98 | Colombia | 2,033 | |
| 99 | Cape Verde | 2,033 | |
| 100 | El Salvador | 2,009 | |
| 101 | Guatemala | 1,953 | |
| 102 | Swaziland | 1,906 | |
| 103 | Jordan | 1,903 | |
| 104 | Dominican Republic | 1,822 | |
| 105 | Samoa | 1,750 | |
| 106 | Morocco | 1,541 | |
| 107 | Vanuatu | 1,394 | |
| 108 | Angola | 1,348 | |
| 109 | R Congo | 1,331 | |
| 110 | Syria | 1,328 | |
| 111 | Ukraine | 1,293 | |
| 112 | PR China | 1,227 | |
| 113 | Paraguay | 1,155 | |
| 114 | Bolivia | 1,118 | |
| 115 | Egypt | 1,083 | |
| 116 | Azerbaijan | 1,047 | |
| 117 | Guyana | 1,034 | |
| 118 | Honduras | 1,026 | |
| 119 | Philippines | 1,019 | |
| 120 | Indonesia | 1,003 | |
| 121 | Sri Lanka | 982 | |
| 122 | Georgia | 866 | |
| 123 | Côte d'Ivoire | 836 | |
| 124 | Cameroon | 832 | |
| 125 | Bhutan | 804 | |
| 126 | Armenia | 795 | |
| 127 | Djibouti | 794 | |
| 128 | Nicaragua | 777 | |
| 129 | Kiribati | 760 | |
| 130 | Senegal | 715 | |
| 131 | Papua New Guinea | 686 | |
| 132 | Moldova | 630 | |
| 133 | India | 603 | |
| 134 | Sudan | 586 | |
| 135 | Benin | 560 | |
| 136 | Haiti | 557 | |
| 137 | Pakistan | 538 | |
| 138 | Lesotho | 536 | |
| 139 | Comoros | 530 | |
| 140 | Yemen | 526 | |
| 141 | Solomon Islands | 518 | |
| 142 | Mongolia | 512 | |
| 143 | Chad | 506 | |
| 144 | Zimbabwe | 498 | |
| 145 | Nigeria | 496 | |
| 146 | Vietnam | 494 | |
| 147 | Kenya | 466 | |
| 148 | Zambia | 454 | |
| 149 | Mauritania | 432 | |
| 150 | Ghana | 424 | |
| 151 | Mali | 412 | |
| 152 | Burkina Faso | 405 | |
| 153 | Timor-Leste | 402 | |
| 154 | Laos | 401 | |
| 155 | São Tomé and Príncipe | 398 | |
| 156 | Bangladesh | 394 | |
| 157 | Guinea | 381 | |
| 158 | Kyrgyzstan | 381 | |
| 159 | Uzbekistan | 357 | |
| 160 | Togo | 354 | |
| 161 | Central African Republic | 339 | |
| 162 | Cambodia | 321 | |
| 163 | Tanzania | 290 | |
| 164 | Uganda | 287 | |
| 165 | Mozambique | 278 | |
| 166 | The Gambia | 268 | |
| 167 | Niger | 265 | |
| 168 | Tajikistan | 261 | |
| 169 | Madagascar | 242 | |
| 170 | Nepal | 239 | |
| 171 | Guinea-Bissau | 199 | |
| 172 | Sierra Leone | 193 | |
| 173 | Rwanda | 184 | |
| 174 | Malawi | 165 | |
| 175 | Myanmar | 142 | |
| 176 | Eritrea | 138 | |
| 177 | DR Congo | 116 | |
| 178 | Ethiopia | 114 | |
| 179 | Burundi | 96 |