COUNTRY / INDICATOR
Tanzania Foreign Reserves
Tanzania foreign reserves: latest available value for 2018, historical series from 2013, ranking context and source documentation.
Series overview
FI.RES.TOTL.CD| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 5,05 bn | -838,22 m |
| 2017 | 5,89 bn | 1,54 bn |
| 2016 | 4,35 bn | 269,92 m |
| 2015 | 4,08 bn | -309,67 m |
| 2014 | 4,39 bn | -283,30 m |
| 2013 | 4,67 bn | — |
Source methodology
World Development IndicatorsIndicator note: Reserve assets are external assets, including monetary gold, that are readily available to and controlled by monetary authorities for meeting balance of payments financing needs, for intervention in exchange markets to affect the currency exchange rate, and for other related purposes (such as maintaining confidence in the currency and the economy, and serving as a basis for foreign borrowing). Reserve assets must be denominated and settled in foreign currency. This indicator is expressed in current prices, meaning no adjustment has been made to account for price changes over time. This indicator is expressed in United States dollars.
Source organization: International Financial Statistics database, International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Metadata fetched: 2026-09-27 03:50:20. Open original metadata response.
Country-specific interpretation
Automatically derived from the displayed seriesTanzania recorded 5,05 bn current US$ in 2018, the latest year available in this series.
Compared with 2017, the foreign reserves decreased by 838,22 m.
Across the latest five-year comparison window, the series shows an upward direction.
Across 6 observations from 2013 to 2018, the average was 4,74 bn; the minimum was 4,08 bn in 2015 and the maximum was 5,89 bn in 2017.
Tanzania ranks 107 out of 181 countries with a current value in the portal ranking.
The latest value is below the available average for Sub-Saharan Africa.
It is also below the available average for the Lower middle income group.
External liquidity buffer.