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Collection: Total Foreign Reserves

Dataset: Total Foreign Reserves, Annual

Economy

Total Foreign Reserves, Annual

MAS (Monetary Authority of Singapore)

Data from Jan 1963 to Dec 2014

Last updated 6 Jun 2024

Chart (Total Foreign Reserves in US$, Annual)

Data explorer

TotalForeignReservesAnnual.csv (52 rows, 2.1 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Total Foreign Reserve Numeric	Special Drawing Rights Numeric	Reserve Position in the IMF Numeric	Gold And Foreign Exchange Numeric	Total Foreign Reserve (USD) Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
1963	1151.4	0	0	1151.4	376.3
1964	1138.1	0	0	1138.1	370.7
1965	1068.6	0	0	1068.6	349.2
1966	1207.3	0	23	1184.3	392
1967	1517.2	0	23	1494.2	494.2
1968	2180.7	0	23	2157.7	708
1969	2530.5	0	23	2507.5	818.9
1970	3097.9	0	23	3074.9	1005.8
1971	4094.8	0	28.3	4066.5	1412
1972	4929.9	0	28.3	4901.6	1750.1

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Total Foreign Reserve	total_foreign_reserve_sgd	Numeric	S$ Million	-
Special Drawing Rights	special_drawing_rights	Numeric	S$ Million	-
Reserve Position in the IMF	imf_reserve_position	Numeric	S$ Million	-
Gold And Foreign Exchange	gold_and_foreign_exchange	Numeric	S$ Million	-
Total Foreign Reserve (USD)	total_foreign_reserve_usd	Numeric	US$ Million	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_bb14bb541fc1e60b29fa021ffa462429"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

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Monetary Authority of Singapore. (2015). Total Foreign Reserves, Annual (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_bb14bb541fc1e60b29fa021ffa462429/view

About this dataset

Contact

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Created on

19 Oct 2015

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

MAS (Monetary Authority of Singapore)