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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French Republic
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France | DEC alternative conversion factor (LCU per US$)
0.7526499 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
0.79185039 1969
0.8467 1970
0.8447 1971
0.769 1972
0.6788 1973
0.7332 1974
0.6537 1975
0.7322 1976
0.7478 1977
0.688 1978
0.6486 1979
0.6442 1980
0.8285 1981
1.0019 1982
1.1619 1983
1.3323 1984
1.3698 1985
1.0559 1986
0.9163 1987
0.9081 1988
0.9726 1989
0.8301 1990
0.8601 1991
0.807 1992
0.8634 1993
0.8464 1994
0.7609 1995
0.7799 1996
0.8898 1997
0.8994 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

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