Guinea-Bissau | DEC alternative conversion factor (LCU per US$)
The DEC alternative conversion factor is the underlying annual exchange rate used for the World Bank Atlas method. As a rule, it is the official exchange rate reported in the IMF's International Financial Statistics (line rf). Exceptions arise where further refinements are made by World Bank staff. It is expressed in local currency units per U.S. dollar. Statistical concept and methodology: The World Bank systematically assesses the appropriateness of official exchange rates as conversion factors. In certain countries, multiple or dual exchange rate activity exists and must be accounted for appropriately in underlying statistics. Doing so better reflects economic reality and leads to more accurate cross-country comparisons and country classifications by income level. Consequently, an alternative conversion factor is used when the official exchange rate is judged to diverge by an exceptionally large margin from the rate effectively applied to domestic transactions of foreign currencies and traded products. This applies to only a small number of countries, as shown in the country-level metadata. An alternative conversion factor is also used when the period covered by national accounts differs from the calendar year and the alternative conversion factor will then cover the same period. Alternative conversion factors are used in the Atlas methodology and elsewhere in World Development Indicators as single-year conversion factors.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Republic of Guinea-Bissau
Records
63
Source
Guinea-Bissau | DEC alternative conversion factor (LCU per US$)
1960 0.44230769
1961 0.44230769
1962 0.44230769
1963 0.44230769
1964 0.44230769
1965 0.44230769
1966 0.44230769
1967 0.44230769
1968 0.44230769
1969 0.44230769
1970 0.54907692
1971 0.53846154
1972 0.53846154
1973 0.59
1974 0.608
1975 0.63707692
1976 0.65815385
1977 0.61553846
1978 0.694
1979 0.76384615
1980 0.76707692
1981 0.66
1982 0.74923077
1983 0.90307692
1984 1.85532308
1985 2.46153846
1986 5.74307692
1987 8.60012821
1988 17.07241026
1989 27.84838462
1990 33.62241026
1991 56.2863
1992 106.6756
1993 155.1062
1994 198.3406
1995 278.0391
1996 405.745
1997 583.66937235
1998 589.95177457
1999 615.6991
2000 710.20797703
2001 732.39769326
2002 693.7132265
2003 579.89742617
2004 527.33803229
2005 527.25836265
2006 522.4256249
2007 478.63371848
2008 446.00004143
2009 470.29342334
2010 494.79426222
2011 471.24862572
2012 510.55633845
2013 493.89962385
2014 493.75732988
2015 591.21169798
2016 592.60561506
2017 580.65674959
2018 555.4464584
2019 585.91101318
2020 575.58600451
2021 554.53067503
2022 623.75970091
Guinea-Bissau | 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 Guinea-Bissau
Records
63
Source