Finland | 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.
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The World Bank
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Republic of Finland
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63
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Finland | DEC alternative conversion factor (LCU per US$)
0.53820139 1960
0.53820139 1961
0.53820139 1962
0.53820139 1963
0.53820139 1964
0.53820139 1965
0.53820139 1966
0.58024716 1967
0.70638424 1968
0.70638424 1969
0.7064 1970
0.7038 1971
0.6974 1972
0.6427 1973
0.6347 1974
0.6187 1975
0.6499 1976
0.6777 1977
0.6925 1978
0.6551 1979
0.6274 1980
0.7258 1981
0.8107 1982
0.9368 1983
1.0108 1984
1.0424 1985
0.8526 1986
0.7393 1987
0.7035 1988
0.7217 1989
0.6431 1990
0.6801 1991
0.7534 1992
0.9607 1993
0.8785 1994
0.7344 1995
0.7726 1996
0.8731 1997
0.8988 1998
0.93828307 1999
1.08270508 2000
1.11653309 2001
1.057559 2002
0.88404793 2003
0.80392165 2004
0.80380019 2005
0.79643273 2006
0.7296724 2007
0.67992268 2008
0.7169577 2009
0.75430899 2010
0.7184139 2011
0.77833812 2012
0.75294512 2013
0.7527282 2014
0.90129642 2015
0.90342144 2016
0.88520551 2017
0.84677267 2018
0.89327626 2019
0.8755064 2020
0.84549414 2021
0.94962375 2022

Finland | 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
Republic of Finland
Records
63
Source