Hong Kong SAR, 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.
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The World Bank
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Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China
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63
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Hong Kong SAR, China | DEC alternative conversion factor (LCU per US$)
5.3878 1960
5.3878 1961
5.3878 1962
5.3878 1963
5.3878 1964
5.73 1965
5.7361 1966
5.7475 1967
6.0851 1968
6.0936 1969
6.0793 1970
5.9609 1971
5.641417 1972
5.1465 1973
5.031583 1974
4.935167 1975
4.9048 1976
4.662 1977
4.683667 1978
5.002667 1979
4.976083 1980
5.589333 1981
6.069917 1982
7.265167 1983
7.818 1984
7.79075 1985
7.803333 1986
7.79825 1987
7.806 1988
7.799917 1989
7.78975 1990
7.771167 1991
7.740583 1992
7.735583 1993
7.728417 1994
7.735833 1995
7.734254 1996
7.742083 1997
7.745333 1998
7.7575 1999
7.791167 2000
7.79875 2001
7.798917 2002
7.78675 2003
7.788 2004
7.777333 2005
7.767833 2006
7.801417 2007
7.786833 2008
7.75175 2009
7.769167 2010
7.784 2011
7.756417 2012
7.756 2013
7.754083 2014
7.75175 2015
7.76225 2016
7.7932 2017
7.8385 2018
7.835917 2019
7.7572 2020
7.7732 2021
7.831417 2022

Hong Kong SAR, 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
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China
Records
63
Source