International Reserves of the Russian Federation are liquid assets held by the Russian Federation's central bank or other monetary authority in order to implement monetary policies relating to the country's currency exchange rate and ensuring the payment of its imports. The assets include foreign currency and foreign denominated bonds, gold reserves, SDRs (special drawing rights) and the IMF reserve position.

International reserves of the Russian Federation

End of the year	Value of the International reserves	Currency	Growth rate	of which the value of gold is	Currency	% of gold of the International reserves	Observations
2019	540,917	millions of dollars	15.46%	107,903	millions of dollars	19.95%	at the end of 31/10/2019
2018	468,495	millions of dollars [1][2]	8.26%	86,903	millions of dollars	18.55%
2017	432,742	millions of dollars [3]	14.56%	76,647	millions of dollars	17.71%
2016	377,741	millions of dollars [4]	2.54%	60,194	millions of dollars	15.94%
2015	368,399	millions of dollars [5]	-4.43%	48,563	millions of dollars	13.18%
2014	385,460	millions of dollars [6]	-24.36%	46,089	millions of dollars	11.96%
2013	509,595	millions of dollars [7]	-5.21%	39,990	millions of dollars	7.85%
2012	537,618	millions of dollars [8]	7.81%	51,039	millions of dollars	9.49%	As of 1 January 2013, as in the beginning of 2012, the international reserves were sufficient to finance the import of goods and services for 15 months.[9]
2011	498,649	millions of dollars [10]	4.02%	44,697	millions of dollars	8.96%	As of 1 January 2012, the international reserves were sufficient to finance the import of goods and services for 14 months [11]
2010	479,379	millions of dollars [12]	9.09%	35,788	millions of dollars	7.47%	As of 1 January 2011, the international reserves were sufficient to finance the import of goods and services for 18 months [13]
2009	439,450	millions of dollars [14]	3.09%	22,798	millions of dollars	5.19%
2008	426,281	millions of dollars [15]	-10.96%	14,533	millions of dollars	3.41%	at the end of July 2008 international reserves were 596,566 million dollars
2007	478,762	millions of dollars [16]	57.63%	12,012	millions of dollars	2.51%
2006	303,732	millions of dollars [17]	66.67%	8,164	millions of dollars	2.69%
2005	182,240	millions of dollars [18]	46.33%	6,349	millions of dollars	3.48%
2004	124,541	millions of dollars [19]	61.87%	3,732	millions of dollars	3.00%
2003	76,938	millions of dollars [20]	60.98%	3,763	millions of dollars	4.89%
2002	47,793	millions of dollars [21]	30.50%	3,739	millions of dollars	7.82%
2001	36,622	millions of dollars [22]	30.92%	4,080	millions of dollars	11.14%
2000	27,972	millions of dollars [23]	124.57%	3,708	millions of dollars	13.26%
1999	12,456	millions of dollars [24]	1.91%	3,998	millions of dollars	32.10%	Vladimir Putin is Acting President of the Russian Federation since 31 of December 1999
1998	12,223	millions of dollars [25]	-31.27%	4,422	millions of dollars	36.18%
1997	17,784	millions of dollars [26]	16.05%	4,889	millions of dollars	27.49%
1996	15,324	millions of dollars [27]	-10.94%	4,047	millions of dollars	26.41%
1995	17,207	millions of dollars [28]	164.48%	2,824	millions of dollars	16.41%
1994	6,506	millions of dollars [29]	-26.85%	2,525	millions of dollars	38.81%
1993	8,894	millions of dollars [30]		3,059	millions of dollars	34.39%

Gold reserves of the Russian Federation

Gold reserves of the Russian Federation 2000 - 2018

See also

• Foreign exchange reserves
• Gold reserve
• Foreign-exchange reserves of China
• Foreign-exchange reserves of India
• Gold reserves of the United Kingdom
• List of countries by foreign-exchange reserves
• List of countries by foreign-exchange reserves (excluding gold)
• List of countries by gold production

References