France | DEC alternative conversion factor (LCU per US$)
The DEC alternative conversion factor is the underlying annual exchange rate used for the World Bank Atlas method. As a rule, it is the official exchange rate reported in the IMF's International Financial Statistics (line rf). Exceptions arise where further refinements are made by World Bank staff. It is expressed in local currency units per U.S. dollar. Statistical concept and methodology: The World Bank systematically assesses the appropriateness of official exchange rates as conversion factors. In certain countries, multiple or dual exchange rate activity exists and must be accounted for appropriately in underlying statistics. Doing so better reflects economic reality and leads to more accurate cross-country comparisons and country classifications by income level. Consequently, an alternative conversion factor is used when the official exchange rate is judged to diverge by an exceptionally large margin from the rate effectively applied to domestic transactions of foreign currencies and traded products. This applies to only a small number of countries, as shown in the country-level metadata. An alternative conversion factor is also used when the period covered by national accounts differs from the calendar year and the alternative conversion factor will then cover the same period. Alternative conversion factors are used in the Atlas methodology and elsewhere in World Development Indicators as single-year conversion factors.
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France | DEC alternative conversion factor (LCU per US$)
1960 0.7526499
1961 0.7526499
1962 0.7526499
1963 0.7526499
1964 0.7526499
1965 0.7526499
1966 0.7526499
1967 0.7526499
1968 0.7526499
1969 0.79185039
1970 0.8467
1971 0.8447
1972 0.769
1973 0.6788
1974 0.7332
1975 0.6537
1976 0.7322
1977 0.7478
1978 0.688
1979 0.6486
1980 0.6442
1981 0.8285
1982 1.0019
1983 1.1619
1984 1.3323
1985 1.3698
1986 1.0559
1987 0.9163
1988 0.9081
1989 0.9726
1990 0.8301
1991 0.8601
1992 0.807
1993 0.8634
1994 0.8464
1995 0.7609
1996 0.7799
1997 0.8898
1998 0.8994
1999 0.93828307
2000 1.08270508
2001 1.11653309
2002 1.057559
2003 0.88404793
2004 0.80392165
2005 0.80380019
2006 0.79643273
2007 0.7296724
2008 0.67992268
2009 0.7169577
2010 0.75430899
2011 0.7184139
2012 0.77833812
2013 0.75294512
2014 0.7527282
2015 0.90129642
2016 0.90342144
2017 0.88520551
2018 0.84677267
2019 0.89327626
2020 0.8755064
2021 0.84549414
2022 0.94962375
France | 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
French Republic
Records
63
Source