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🛡️ Foreign Reserves in Months of Imports

International reserves measured in months of goods and services imports.

📅 2025📏 months of imports112 entries
Every dot is one country, placed by its value (months of imports, logarithmic scale); the vertical bar marks each row’s median. Rows are world regions, ordered by their median. Hover a dot for its name.
1
🇸🇦Saudi Arabia
15.6 months
2
🇳🇵Nepal
15.5 months
3
🇮🇱Israel
14.4 months
4
🇯🇵Japan
14.0 months
5
🇺🇿Uzbekistan
13.6 months
6
🇨🇭Switzerland
13.1 months
7
🇼🇸Samoa
12.4 months
8
🇨🇳China
11.9 months
9
🇩🇿Algeria
11.6 months
10
🇮🇶Iraq
11.6 months
11
🇹🇴Tonga
11.0 months
12
🇵🇪Peru
10.4 months
13
🇲🇴Macau
10.1 months
14
🇬🇹Guatemala
9.3 months
15
🇨🇻Cape Verde
8.7 months
16
🇺🇾Uruguay
8.6 months
17
🇧🇷Brazil
8.4 months
18
🇰🇼Kuwait
8.4 months
19
🇹🇭Thailand
8.1 months
20
🇰🇭Cambodia
7.9 months
21
🇧🇳Brunei
7.9 months
22
🇮🇳India
7.9 months
23
🇨🇿Czechia
7.6 months
24
🇶🇦Qatar
7.5 months
25
🇰🇿Kazakhstan
7.4 months
26
🇵🇭Philippines
7.3 months
27
🇨🇴Colombia
7.3 months
28
🇦🇱Albania
7.2 months
29
🇧🇬Bulgaria
7.2 months
30
🇳🇬Nigeria
7.1 months
31
🇯🇲Jamaica
7.1 months
32
🇰🇷South Korea
6.5 months
33
🇿🇦South Africa
6.2 months
34
🇷🇸Serbia
6.2 months
35
🇲🇦Morocco
5.9 months
36
🇵🇱Poland
5.9 months
37
🇺🇦Ukraine
5.8 months
38
🇹🇱Timor-Leste
5.8 months
39
🇹🇯Tajikistan
5.7 months
40
🇮🇹Italy
5.7 months
41
🇷🇴Romania
5.5 months
42
🇮🇩Indonesia
5.5 months
43
🇹🇹Trinidad and Tobago
5.5 months
44
🇲🇩Moldova
5.4 months
45
🇭🇳Honduras
5.3 months
46
🇮🇸Iceland
5.3 months
47
🇦🇴Angola
5.3 months
48
🇦🇪United Arab Emirates
5.2 months
49
🇹🇷Türkiye
5.1 months
50
🇦🇿Azerbaijan
5.0 months

Highlights

As of 2025, Saudi Arabia ranks first with 15.6 months, followed by Nepal (15.5 months) and Israel (14.4 months).

The top two are virtually level: Saudi Arabia and Nepal differ by less than 1%.

Across 112 countries and territories, values run from 15.6 months (Saudi Arabia) to 0.1 months (Luxembourg), with a median of 4.5 months.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 7 from Asia, 1 from Africa, 1 from Europe and 1 from Oceania.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Total reserves in months of imports, 2025. Unit: months of imports.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Total reserves in months of imports · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 16, 2026