Italy | 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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Italian Republic
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Italy | DEC alternative conversion factor (LCU per US$)
0.32226205 1960
0.32278556 1961
0.32278556 1962
0.32278556 1963
0.32278556 1964
0.32278556 1965
0.32278556 1966
0.32278556 1967
0.32278556 1968
0.32278556 1969
0.3228 1970
0.3204 1971
0.3012 1972
0.3011 1973
0.3359 1974
0.3372 1975
0.4299 1976
0.4557 1977
0.4383 1978
0.4291 1979
0.4423 1980
0.5871 1981
0.6985 1982
0.7844 1983
0.9074 1984
0.9861 1985
0.7699 1986
0.6694 1987
0.6722 1988
0.7086 1989
0.6188 1990
0.6407 1991
0.6365 1992
0.8127 1993
0.8328 1994
0.8413 1995
0.7969 1996
0.8796 1997
0.8967 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

Italy | 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
Italian Republic
Records
63
Source