Italy | DEC alternative conversion factor (LCU per US$)
The DEC alternative conversion factor is the underlying annual exchange rate used for the World Bank Atlas method. As a rule, it is the official exchange rate reported in the IMF's International Financial Statistics (line rf). Exceptions arise where further refinements are made by World Bank staff. It is expressed in local currency units per U.S. dollar. Statistical concept and methodology: The World Bank systematically assesses the appropriateness of official exchange rates as conversion factors. In certain countries, multiple or dual exchange rate activity exists and must be accounted for appropriately in underlying statistics. Doing so better reflects economic reality and leads to more accurate cross-country comparisons and country classifications by income level. Consequently, an alternative conversion factor is used when the official exchange rate is judged to diverge by an exceptionally large margin from the rate effectively applied to domestic transactions of foreign currencies and traded products. This applies to only a small number of countries, as shown in the country-level metadata. An alternative conversion factor is also used when the period covered by national accounts differs from the calendar year and the alternative conversion factor will then cover the same period. Alternative conversion factors are used in the Atlas methodology and elsewhere in World Development Indicators as single-year conversion factors.
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The World Bank
Origin
Italian Republic
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Italy | DEC alternative conversion factor (LCU per US$)
1960 0.32226205
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 0.32278556
1970 0.3228
1971 0.3204
1972 0.3012
1973 0.3011
1974 0.3359
1975 0.3372
1976 0.4299
1977 0.4557
1978 0.4383
1979 0.4291
1980 0.4423
1981 0.5871
1982 0.6985
1983 0.7844
1984 0.9074
1985 0.9861
1986 0.7699
1987 0.6694
1988 0.6722
1989 0.7086
1990 0.6188
1991 0.6407
1992 0.6365
1993 0.8127
1994 0.8328
1995 0.8413
1996 0.7969
1997 0.8796
1998 0.8967
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
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