China | DEC alternative conversion factor (LCU per US$)
The DEC alternative conversion factor is the underlying annual exchange rate used for the World Bank Atlas method. As a rule, it is the official exchange rate reported in the IMF's International Financial Statistics (line rf). Exceptions arise where further refinements are made by World Bank staff. It is expressed in local currency units per U.S. dollar. Statistical concept and methodology: The World Bank systematically assesses the appropriateness of official exchange rates as conversion factors. In certain countries, multiple or dual exchange rate activity exists and must be accounted for appropriately in underlying statistics. Doing so better reflects economic reality and leads to more accurate cross-country comparisons and country classifications by income level. Consequently, an alternative conversion factor is used when the official exchange rate is judged to diverge by an exceptionally large margin from the rate effectively applied to domestic transactions of foreign currencies and traded products. This applies to only a small number of countries, as shown in the country-level metadata. An alternative conversion factor is also used when the period covered by national accounts differs from the calendar year and the alternative conversion factor will then cover the same period. Alternative conversion factors are used in the Atlas methodology and elsewhere in World Development Indicators as single-year conversion factors.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
People's Republic of China
Records
63
Source
China | DEC alternative conversion factor (LCU per US$)
1960 2.461809
1961 2.461809
1962 2.461809
1963 2.461809
1964 2.461809
1965 2.461809
1966 2.461809
1967 2.461809
1968 2.461809
1969 2.461809
1970 2.461809
1971 2.461809
1972 2.245066
1973 1.989416
1974 1.961107
1975 1.859823
1976 1.941415
1977 1.857823
1978 1.6836
1979 1.5549
1980 1.4984
1981 1.7045
1982 1.8925
1983 1.9757
1984 2.32
1985 2.9367
1986 3.4528
1987 3.7221
1988 3.7221
1989 3.7651
1990 4.7832
1991 5.3234
1992 5.5146
1993 5.762
1994 8.618743
1995 8.351417
1996 8.314175
1997 8.289817
1998 8.278958
1999 8.2782
2000 8.278504
2001 8.277068
2002 8.276957
2003 8.277037
2004 8.276801
2005 8.194317
2006 7.973438
2007 7.607532
2008 6.948655
2009 6.831416
2010 6.770269
2011 6.461461
2012 6.312333
2013 6.195758
2014 6.143434
2015 6.227489
2016 6.644478
2017 6.758755
2018 6.615957
2019 6.908385
2020 6.900767
2021 6.448975
2022 6.737158
China | DEC alternative conversion factor (LCU per US$)
The DEC alternative conversion factor is the underlying annual exchange rate used for the World Bank Atlas method. As a rule, it is the official exchange rate reported in the IMF's International Financial Statistics (line rf). Exceptions arise where further refinements are made by World Bank staff. It is expressed in local currency units per U.S. dollar. Statistical concept and methodology: The World Bank systematically assesses the appropriateness of official exchange rates as conversion factors. In certain countries, multiple or dual exchange rate activity exists and must be accounted for appropriately in underlying statistics. Doing so better reflects economic reality and leads to more accurate cross-country comparisons and country classifications by income level. Consequently, an alternative conversion factor is used when the official exchange rate is judged to diverge by an exceptionally large margin from the rate effectively applied to domestic transactions of foreign currencies and traded products. This applies to only a small number of countries, as shown in the country-level metadata. An alternative conversion factor is also used when the period covered by national accounts differs from the calendar year and the alternative conversion factor will then cover the same period. Alternative conversion factors are used in the Atlas methodology and elsewhere in World Development Indicators as single-year conversion factors.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
People's Republic of China
Records
63
Source