REPORT TO CONGRESS ON THE USE OF SPECIAL DRAWING RIGHTS BY 

IMF MEMBER COUNTRIES

August 2010 

This report has been prepared pursuant to section 67 of the Bretton Woods Agreements 

Act, as added by section 1402 of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2009 (P.L. 111-

32, June 24, 2009).1 , 2

 The report focuses on the role of Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) 

as an international reserve asset, the exceptional circumstances surrounding the 2009 

SDR allocations, and presents an analysis of SDR use by IMF member countries from 

September 2009 through June 2010. 

Role and Characteristics of the SDR 

The SDR is an international monetary reserve asset, created by the International 

Monetary Fund (IMF) in 1969 to supplement the existing official reserves of IMF 

member countries.3

 In addition to its role as a supplementary reserve asset, the SDR 

serves as a means of payment within the IMF, as well as the unit of account for the IMF 

and several other international organizations. SDRs may be held only by the official 

sector – IMF member countries and certain institutions designated by the IMF as 

prescribed holders.4

The SDR is neither a currency, nor a claim on the IMF. Rather, it is a potential claim on 

the freely usable currencies of IMF members. The concept of a “freely usable currency” 

dates from the Second Amendment of the IMF Articles in 1977, and is defined as a 

member's currency that the Fund determines is widely used to make payments for 

international transactions and is widely traded in the principal exchange markets. 

 

1

 Section 67 provides that “The United States Governor of the Fund may agree to and accept the 

amendment to the Articles of Agreement of the Fund as proposed in the resolution numbered 52-4 of the 

Board of Governors of the Fund which was approved by such Board on October 22, 1997: Provided, That 

not more than one year after the acceptance of such amendments to the Fund's Articles of Agreement, the 

Secretary of the Treasury shall submit a report to the appropriate congressional committees analyzing 

Special Drawing Rights, to include a discussion of how those countries that significantly use or acquire 

Special Drawing Rights in accordance with Article XIX, Section 2(c), use or acquire them; the extent to 

which countries experiencing balance of payment difficulties exchange or use their Special Drawing Rights 

to acquire reserve currencies; and the manner in which those reserve currencies are acquired when utilizing 

Special Drawing Rights.” 

2

 The IMF recorded the United States’ acceptance of the amendments referenced in section 67 on August 5, 

2009. 

3

 Please see the SDR fact sheet on the IMF website: http://www.imf.org/external/np/exr/facts/sdr.htm

4

 Prescribed holders currently include the Arab Monetary Fund, the Bank for International Settlements, the 

Bank of Central African States, the Central Bank of West Africa, the European Central Bank, and the 

Islamic Development Bank. 
The SDR’s value is based on a basket of key international reserve currencies issued by 

IMF members (or monetary unions that include IMF members) whose exports of goods 

and services had the largest value over the previous five-year period, and which have 

been determined by the IMF to be freely usable currencies. The composition of 

currencies (and their weights) in the SDR basket is currently: U.S. dollar (44 percent), 

euro (34 percent), Japanese yen (11 percent), and pound sterling (11 percent). The IMF 

Executive Board reviews the SDR basket every five years; the next review is expected by 

the end of 2010. The IMF publishes the SDR exchange rate daily. 

The SDR carries a variable interest rate, calculated weekly and published on the IMF’s 

external website as a weighted average of short-term interest rates of the SDR basket of 

currencies. The SDR interest rate is used to determine the interest charged on the IMF’s 

non-concessional loans, interest earned on IMF members’ reserve positions in the IMF, 

interest paid to members on SDR holdings, and interest charged on members’ SDR 

allocations. 

The IMF’s decision to create the SDR should be viewed against the background of the 

“Triffin dilemma.”5 , 6

 In the 1960s, the supply of reserve assets – mainly gold and U.S. 

dollars – was constrained by the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates. Demand 

for international liquidity had to be met through U.S. balance of payments deficits, which 

risked undermining confidence in the value of the dollar in relation to the value of gold. 

However, elimination of U.S. deficits risked causing a shortage of reserves, a slowdown 

in global economic activity, and deflation. Hence, the dilemma facing economic policy 

makers was a choice between an international liquidity shortage and a loss of confidence 

in the dollar. The First Amendment to the IMF Articles of Agreement, which established 

the SDR as a supplemental reserve asset to the existing supply of gold, was intended to 

enable reserve growth to continue even if U.S. balance of payments deficits did not. 

The international monetary system has changed substantially since the creation of the 

SDR and the subsequent breakdown of the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates 

in the early 1970s. Private capital markets have grown, capital is increasingly mobile, 

and the use of flexible exchange rates is widespread. Rather than relying solely on 

current account surpluses to increase reserves, for example, countries can borrow on 

international capital markets. 

With these major changes in the international monetary system, the importance of the 

SDR relative to other reserve currencies has diminished, prompting periodic debate and 

controversy about the appropriate role of the SDR. Unlike IMF credit provided in freely 

usable currencies as part of an IMF macroeconomic adjustment program, the SDR is an 

 

5

 Robert Triffin, 1960, “Gold and the Dollar Crisis: The Future of Convertibility," New Haven: Yale 

University Press. 

6

 For a brief discussion of SDR history, please see John Williamson, “Understanding Special Drawing 

Rights (SDRs),” Policy Brief, Peterson Institute of International Economics, June 2009. For a fuller history 

of the SDR, please see Robert Solomon’s paper, “Creation and Evolution of the SDR,” presented at the 

IMF “Seminar on the Future of the SDR”, March 18-19, 1996. 
unconditional reserve asset. IMF members that use their SDRs are under no obligation to 

reconstitute their SDR holdings. 

The IMF membership has taken decisions to allocate SDRs only four times over the past 

forty years. The first two general SDR allocations were implemented over three year 

periods -- the first allocation from 1970 through 1972, and the second from 1979 through 

1981. The third general SDR allocation was implemented on August 28, 2009 and a onetime special SDR allocation was implemented on September 9, 2009. SDRs are allocated 

to IMF members participating in the IMF’s SDR Department (which currently includes 

all IMF members) and can only be allocated in proportion to their IMF quotas. 

2009 SDR Allocations 

As the recent crisis demonstrates, systemic liquidity shocks can arise. Article XVIII of 

the IMF’s Articles of Agreement states that the membership can create new SDRs by an 

85 percent majority of the total voting power “...to meet the long-term global need, as 

and when it arises, to supplement existing reserve assets in such manner as will promote 

the attainment of its purposes and will avoid economic stagnation and deflation as well as 

excess demand and inflation in the world.”7

 

At the G-20 Leaders’ Summit in London in April 2009, President Obama and other G-20 

Leaders called for a general SDR allocation equivalent to $250 billion to help stop a 

serious capital drain and the contagion risk facing emerging market and developing 

countries. The action was an exceptional measure taken to address the consequences of 

the global economic and financial crisis and to support global recovery. IMF members 

endorsed this proposal, and the $250 billion allocation was made, on August 28, 2009, to 

all 186 IMF members in proportion to their existing quotas in the IMF.8 

Prior to 2009, there had not been a general SDR allocation since 1981 because there was 

no consensus on the existence of a long-term global need to supplement existing reserve 

assets and because of debates about the role of the SDR in the international monetary 

system. In addition to the view that private markets could meet members’ financing 

needs, even if private markets could at times prove volatile, many IMF member 

governments felt that countries seeking to use SDRs often needed conditional support 

through an IMF program rather than through an unconditional reserve asset such as the 

SDR. Further, proposals have been made over time to use the SDR for development or 

environmentally related purposes, which many member governments of the IMF see as 

inconsistent with the SDR’s monetary role. 

 

7

 For the full text of Article XVIII, Sec. 1(a) of the IMF Articles of Agreement, please see: 

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/aa/aa18.htm. 

8

 For more background on the IMF’s procedures and criteria governing general SDR allocations, as well as 

the specific circumstances surrounding the 2009 general allocation, please see the June 2009 IMF staff 

paper on the “Proposal for a General Allocation of SDRs”: 

http://www.imf.org/external/np/pp/eng/2009/060909.pdf

 
In the mid-1990s, however, the IMF Executive Board reached agreement that there was a 

need to correct an “equity problem” – many members had joined the IMF since 1981 and 

had never received an SDR allocation. As a solution, the Executive Board agreed in 

1997 to amend the IMF’s Articles of Agreement to allow for a one-time, special 

allocation of SDRs in proportionally greater amounts to new members who had never 

received an SDR allocation with the objective of reaching a common benchmark ratio of 

cumulative allocation to quota across the membership. However, the 85 percent voting 

majority required for amending the Articles of Agreement was not reached until the 

United States sought and received congressional approval in June 2009. With U.S. 

support, the IMF membership adopted the Fourth Amendment, initiating the one-time, 

special SDR allocation equivalent to $34 billion on September 9, 2009. 

The combined general and special SDR allocations increased the outstanding stock of 

SDRs from 21.4 billion to 204.1 billion (equivalent to about $321 billion), and provided 

about $100 billion in new SDRs to emerging market and developing countries, including 

more than $18 billion to low-income countries.9

 

U.S. Holdings of SDRs 

Pursuant to the Special Drawing Rights Act of 1968, as amended, SDRs allocated by the 

IMF, or otherwise acquired by the United States, are resources (holdings) of the 

Department of the Treasury, Exchange Stabilization Fund (ESF). 

 

In August 2009, the ESF received 27.5 billion SDRs (equivalent to $42.8 billion), 

representing the U.S. share of the $250 billion general SDR allocation. The ESF received 

an additional 2.9 billion SDRs (equivalent to $4.5 billion) in September 2009, 

representing the U.S. share of the special SDR allocation. Since 1970, the United States 

has received cumulative SDR allocations of SDR 35.5 billion (equivalent to $55.9 

billion). As of September 2009, total U.S. holdings were SDR 36.5 billion (equivalent to 

$57 billion). From end-September 2009 through June 2010, total U.S. holdings increased 

by more than SDR 300 million to SDR 36.9 billion. 

Over time, U.S. SDR holdings have increased – due to net purchases of SDRs in 

occasional transactions with other IMF member countries over time and net interest 

earned in the IMF’s SDR Department – and currently exceed U.S. cumulative allocations. 

SDR Use 

There are several ways in which SDRs can be used, which may explain changes in the 

level of an IMF member’s SDR holdings over time. 

SDRs may be used in transactions with the IMF, such as the repayment of loans or 

payment of the reserve asset portion of quota increases. SDRs are also used as a means 

 

9

 For more information, please see the answers to frequently asked questions about SDR allocations on the 

IMF website: http://www.imf.org/external/np/exr/faq/sdrallocfaqs.htm#q8
of payment of interest within the SDR Department. For example, members receive net 

interest from the IMF at the SDR interest rate on the amount that their SDR holdings 

exceed their cumulative allocations, which leads to incremental increases in a member’s 

SDR holdings (but not their allocation) over time. Conversely, members with SDR 

holdings below their cumulative allocations incur net interest obligations to the IMF at 

the SDR rate, which leads to a decrease in the level of a member’s SDR holdings over 

time. 

Members may also voluntarily exchange (i.e., sell) all or part of their SDR holdings for 

freely usable currencies (such as euros or U.S. dollars) with other IMF members or 

prescribed holders. As the administrator of the SDR Department, the IMF manages the 

liquidity of the SDR system and facilitates these voluntary exchanges, which are 

considered confidential bilateral transactions between IMF members or prescribed 

holders. Participants in these exchanges may choose whether or not to publicly disclose 

the details of the transactions. 

Use of SDRs may be observed in the level of an IMF member’s SDR holdings, which are 

published monthly on the IMF’s external website.10 The attached table presents IMF 

members’ cumulative SDR allocations and changes in SDR holdings from endSeptember 2009 through June 2010. Significant SDR use has been limited – since the 

2009 SDR allocations, only 16 of the IMF’s 186 members have used 50% or more of 

their SDR holdings. 

Since the 2009 SDR allocations, a number of IMF members have exchanged SDRs for 

freely usable currencies to meet external payments and budgetary financing needs. 

Several of these transactions, where information has been made publicly available, are 

described below. 

• Bosnia and Herzegovina used a substantial portion of its SDR holdings to help 

finance its 2009 budget deficit, replacing a portion of expected external budgetsupport funds.11 Bosnia is obligated because of its currency regime to convert 

SDRs to euros. 

• Malawi, facing a foreign exchange shortage, used the 2009 special allocation of 

SDRs in November 2009. 

• Mauritania, facing a deteriorating fiscal position, used a significant portion of its 

2009 SDR allocations to help close a fiscal financing gap.12 

 

10 SDR holdings data is available at: http://www.imf.org/external/np/fin/tad/extsdr1.aspx

11 For more information, please see the staff report for the 1st review of the Stand-By Arrangement for 

Bosnia and Herzegovina. http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/scr/2010/cr10101.pdf

12 For more information, please see the staff report for Mauritania’s request for an Extended Credit 

Arrangement. http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/scr/2010/cr10168.pdf
• In Moldova, the authorities used most of their SDR allocation for budget 

financing in late 2009, helping to clear accumulated expenditure arrears and 

reduce reliance on more expensive short-term domestic financing.13 

• Given Serbia’s relatively comfortable foreign exchange reserve position, the 

authorities decided to use the full amount of the SDR allocation for budgetary 

purposes.14

• Ukraine used its 2009 SDR allocations to meet external obligations to natural gas 

suppliers.15

• Zimbabwe used a portion of its SDR holdings for budgetary purposes.16 

One may infer from the attached IMF data on SDR holdings that the 2009 SDR 

allocations provided a significant source of balance of payments financing for certain 

segments of the IMF membership – particularly low-income and small island countries, 

and a number of small European economies. One may also infer from the data that there 

have not been significant acquisitions of SDRs since the 2009 allocations. It appears that 

members that provided freely usable currencies in exchange for SDRs since endSeptember 2009 generally recorded only modest increases in their SDR holdings. 

Despite the limited use of SDRs over the period end-September 2009 through June 2010, 

the 2009 SDR allocations, combined with other international crisis response measures, 

helped to restore market confidence and support global recovery. 

 

13 Please see Moldova’s request for an Extended Credit Arrangement and Extended Fund Facility for more 

details. http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/scr/2010/cr1032.pdf

14 As described in the staff report for the 2nd review of Serbia’s Stand-By Arrangement. 

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/scr/2010/cr1025.pdf

15 Please see statements by Ukrainian authorities, as reported in the press. 

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a8Km57YGjlB4

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aHZlhl.5pyd8

16 Please see the IMF staff report for Zimbabwe’s 2010 Article IV consultations for more details. 

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/scr/2010/cr10186.pdf
SDR Allocations and Holdings

(in SDRs)

Source: http://www.imf.org/external/np/fin/tad/extsdr1.aspx

Cumulative SDR Use % Change 

SDR Allocations in Holdings

Members through Sept 2009 as of Aug 2009 as of Sept 2009 as of June 2010 since Sept 2009 Sept 2009-June 2010

Afghanistan 155,314,267 120,068,070 128,661,280 128,426,164 (235,116) 0%

Albania 46,450,260 41,210,424 51,158,897 51,436,915 278,018 1%

Algeria 1,198,184,979 936,231,573 1,075,655,146 1,075,514,433 (140,713) 0%

Angola 273,008,626 212,404,772 273,176,402 269,923,961 (3,252,441) -1%

Antigua and Barbuda 12,499,524 10,014,440 12,506,282 12,406,651 (99,631) -1%

Argentina 2,020,039,967 1,890,081,672 2,022,324,662 2,022,181,298 (143,364) 0%

Armenia 87,988,659 68,967,716 88,755,873 29,375,593 (59,380,280) -67%

Australia 3,083,171,021 2,511,697,441 2,850,503,913 3,098,344,719 247,840,806 9%

Austria 1,736,313,856 1,581,011,091 1,750,325,609 1,750,897,677 572,068 0%

Azerbaijan 153,576,220 120,093,788 154,393,261 156,524,293 2,131,032 1%

Bahamas 124,413,351 96,602,343 114,193,027 114,175,020 (18,007) 0%

Bahrain 124,350,296 109,480,308 127,553,781 127,685,234 131,453 0%

Bangladesh 510,404,987 396,302,287 464,246,758 443,251,814 (20,994,944) -5%

Barbados 64,373,832 50,053,086 56,349,507 56,338,360 (11,147) 0%

Belarus 368,643,579 286,994,252 369,195,724 368,741,510 (454,214) 0%

Belgium 4,323,343,606 3,781,145,691 4,205,363,407 4,406,665,071 201,301,664 5%

Belize 17,894,255 16,222,351 20,179,982 20,146,061 (33,921) 0%

Benin 59,167,129 45,896,385 49,767,437 49,683,994 (83,443) 0%

Bhutan 5,989,462 5,098,376 6,417,586 6,419,832 2,246 0%

Bolivia 164,131,156 154,616,066 164,909,591 164,909,718 127 0%

Bosnia and Herzegovina 160,886,223 125,643,769 15,337,766 788,963 (14,548,803) -95%

Botswana 57,432,096 86,457,090 92,827,669 92,912,697 85,028 0%

Brazil 2,887,077,827 2,609,513,941 2,887,231,085 2,887,974,952 743,867 0%

Brunei Darussalam 203,503,552 172,348,188 216,321,871 216,354,321 32,450 0%

Bulgaria 610,875,636 478,845,705 615,134,807 610,881,883 (4,252,924) -1%

Burkina Faso 57,584,429 44,633,079 48,181,658 48,071,475 (110,183) 0%

Burundi 73,849,486 63,722,962 66,794,593 66,629,463 (165,130) 0%

Cambodia 83,919,870 64,877,312 68,515,575 68,485,762 (29,813) 0%

Cameroon 177,266,861 140,574,219 155,717,250 17,783,152 (137,934,098) -89%

Canada 5,988,080,401 5,367,245,303 5,854,485,327 5,877,184,581 22,699,254 0%

C Vd 9 168 679 7 173 210 8 605 315 7 600 329 (1 004 986) 12%

SDR Holdings

Cape Verde 9,168,679 7,173,210 8,605,315 7,600,329 (1,004,986) -12%

Central African Rep. 53,369,061 41,395,517 44,148,622 2,815,156 (41,333,466) -94%

Chad 53,620,770 41,572,812 44,271,233 2,767,243 (41,503,990) -94%

Chile 816,891,579 671,359,468 731,691,727 789,781,327 58,089,600 8%

China 6,989,668,494 6,791,061,269 7,854,227,047 8,046,888,344 192,661,297 2%

Colombia 738,323,308 704,905,670 755,184,193 751,180,903 (4,003,290) -1%

Comoros 8,503,183 6,607,397 6,684,023 6,668,314 (15,709) 0%

Congo (DRC) 510,856,857 395,371,638 422,131,372 353,424,379 (68,706,993) -16%

Congo (Republic) 79,688,651 62,832,768 70,087,610 70,057,629 (29,981) 0%

Costa Rica 156,534,727 121,722,251 132,882,040 132,612,642 (269,398) 0%

Cote d'Ivoire 310,904,156 241,220,679 273,222,888 272,627,454 (595,434) 0%

Croatia 347,342,312 270,685,038 303,169,773 303,223,458 53,685 0%

Cyprus 132,802,637 105,222,293 115,100,082 119,372,630 4,272,548 4%

Czech Republic 780,201,010 621,504,841 794,350,732 794,593,781 243,049 0%

Denmark 1,531,473,364 1,374,063,041 1,508,848,666 1,520,879,645 12,030,979 1%

Djibouti 15,158,142 11,979,902 14,173,218 11,960,916 (2,212,302) -16%

Dominica 7,837,687 6,135,174 7,270,921 6,704,332 (566,589) -8%

Dominican Republic 208,826,188 163,165,904 178,134,377 144,789,734 (33,344,643) -19%

Ecuador 288,358,161 241,092,450 16,994,498 16,581,651 (412,847) -2%

Egypt 898,452,369 768,550,541 831,504,852 817,813,228 (13,691,624) -2%

El Salvador 163,807,000 151,997,444 163,833,075 163,805,560 (27,515) 0%

Equatorial Guinea 31,290,436 24,626,400 25,938,137 25,937,882 (255) 0%

Eritrea 15,158,142 11,786,826 15,158,142 3,642,735 (11,515,407) -76%

Estonia 61,965,241 48,395,172 62,027,014 62,026,628 (386) 0%

Ethiopia 127,930,540 99,147,633 17,691,933 57,423,198 39,731,265 225%

Fiji 67,094,447 59,031,999 67,054,367 67,077,200 22,833 0%

Finland 1,189,510,793 1,091,606,097 1,201,559,565 1,201,967,990 408,425 0%

France 10,134,203,762 8,590,404,317 9,684,182,794 9,724,588,295 40,405,501 0%

Gabon 146,719,417 114,564,111 132,808,426 132,807,229 (1,197) 0%

Gambia 29,768,051 23,066,707 24,659,023 24,604,045 (54,978) 0%

Georgia 143,959,389 112,400,423 143,169,532 142,583,310 (586,222) 0%
Cumulative SDR Use % Change 

SDR Allocations in Holdings

Members through Sept 2009 as of Aug 2009 as of Sept 2009 as of June 2010 since Sept 2009 Sept 2009-June 2010

Germany 12,059,166,873 10,977,149,891 12,182,450,626 12,186,999,514 4,548,888 0%

Ghana 353,868,577 273,622,663 290,964,924 291,402,764 437,840 0%

Greece 782,357,540 625,459,598 694,175,173 632,909,149 (61,266,024) -9%

Grenada 11,165,167 9,115,126 10,676,968 10,645,027 (31,941) 0%

Guatemala 200,911,003 156,956,540 174,366,223 173,682,033 (684,190) 0%

Guinea 102,465,806 79,713,911 85,181,437 78,821,790 (6,359,647) -7%

Guinea-Bissau 13,604,757 10,547,003 12,412,761 12,394,568 (18,193) 0%

Guyana 87,085,271 67,439,298 2,609,508 2,381,286 (228,222) -9%

Haiti 78,507,957 65,089,973 69,187,657 68,895,983 (291,674) 0%

Honduras 123,849,618 96,047,495 104,840,494 104,754,367 (86,127) 0%

Hungary 991,051,670 774,506,935 995,722,260 845,566,809 (150,155,451) -15%

Iceland 112,184,400 88,620,119 97,217,487 84,861,230 (12,356,257) -13%

India 3,978,258,337 3,082,657,159 3,297,231,086 3,296,533,523 (697,563) 0%

Indonesia 1,980,438,720 1,562,602,848 1,762,680,101 1,762,400,407 (279,694) 0%

Iran 1,426,059,814 1,393,379,087 1,465,493,869 1,535,649,725 70,155,856 5%

Iraq 1,134,495,508 974,689,569 1,159,748,711 1,155,725,941 (4,022,770) 0%

Ireland 775,422,027 685,487,817 752,132,708 752,322,447 189,739 0%

Israel 883,385,541 696,530,748 785,472,533 859,135,052 73,662,519 9%

Italy 6,576,111,210 5,358,313,665 6,005,727,182 6,032,773,526 27,046,344 0%

Jamaica 261,643,650 202,753,182 221,035,602 217,306,719 (3,728,883) -2%

Japan 12,284,969,838 11,786,193,298 13,317,564,033 13,381,660,556 64,096,523 0%

Jordan 162,070,636 128,226,203 146,753,391 146,653,379 (100,012) 0%

Kazakhstan 343,653,571 272,000,045 344,556,622 344,555,528 (1,094) 0%

Kenya 259,647,163 207,449,061 228,914,744 217,724,550 (11,190,194) -5%

Kiribati 5,323,967 4,162,682 5,335,314 5,335,298 (16) 0%

Korea 2,404,445,224 2,227,279,642 2,388,777,489 2,297,857,891 (90,919,598) -4%

Kosovo 55,368,413 43,737,278 55,368,413 55,377,974 9,561 0%

Kuwait 1,315,573,695 1,177,179,956 1,442,186,286 1,442,851,966 665,680 0%

Kyrgyz Republic 84,736,994 90,159,240 106,941,924 97,699,920 (9,242,004) -9%

Lao 50,677,761 49,017,667 51,071,140 51,071,478 338 0%

Latvia 120,822,030 94,556,770 121,380,717 121,740,790 360,073 0%

Lebanon 193,286,941 171,621,681 210,029,533 209,372,676 (656,857) 0%

Lesotho 32,878,186 29,431,112 31,648,586 36,606,794 4,958,208 16%

Liberia 123,979,015 116,856,088 124,050,877 128,491,867 4,440,990 4%

SDR Holdings

Liberia 123,979,015 116,856,088 124,050,877 128,491,867 4,440,990 4%

Libya 1,072,695,711 1,422,035,093 1,602,949,782 1,604,632,680 1,682,898 0%

Lithuania 137,238,714 106,969,086 137,310,927 137,309,942 (985) 0%

Luxembourg 246,622,459 220,433,445 243,201,339 243,276,480 75,141 0%

Macedonia 65,616,876 51,927,877 58,089,814 58,075,052 (14,762) 0%

Madagascar 117,089,531 90,638,797 97,870,270 97,663,532 (206,738) 0%

Malawi 66,368,637 51,495,241 55,441,978 1,150,015 (54,291,963) -98%

Malaysia 1,346,143,721 1,249,770,637 1,354,835,210 1,355,274,331 439,121 0%

Maldives 7,691,108 6,476,198 7,806,166 7,728,106 (78,060) -1%

Mali 89,362,782 69,172,312 73,458,890 73,362,869 (96,021) 0%

Malta 95,401,757 87,464,659 95,964,816 95,819,122 (145,694) 0%

Marshall Islands 3,327,479 2,594,584 3,327,479 3,327,452 (27) 0%

Mauritania 61,665,351 47,753,914 51,959,914 45,503 (51,914,411) -100%

Mauritius 96,805,549 94,183,615 99,928,088 99,782,487 (145,601) 0%

Mexico 2,851,195,262 2,630,822,273 2,854,795,998 2,807,503,700 (47,292,298) -2%

Micronesia 4,806,733 5,173,723 6,199,776 6,202,368 2,592 0%

Moldova 117,713,577 91,409,166 3,493,376 150,312 (3,343,064) -96%

Mongolia 48,757,089 38,263,332 49,085,835 48,035,862 (1,049,973) -2%

Montenegro 25,822,346 20,706,339 26,142,666 26,153,308 10,642 0%

Morocco 561,422,053 448,389,263 488,083,892 484,551,412 (3,532,480) -1%

Mozambique 108,838,056 84,256,494 108,881,757 108,644,094 (237,663) 0%

Myanmar 245,759,346 191,568,021 202,298,915 2,044,108 (200,254,807) -99%

Namibia 130,387,314 101,208,901 130,407,427 130,406,402 (1,025) 0%

Nepal 68,099,599 57,413,396 64,552,806 62,276,767 (2,276,039) -4%

Netherlands 4,836,632,109 4,406,323,581 4,885,677,979 4,887,308,482 1,630,503 0%

New Zealand 853,757,690 677,401,481 726,661,424 854,745,468 128,084,044 18%

Nicaragua 124,542,747 96,439,987 105,129,460 104,885,053 (244,407) 0%

Niger 62,937,711 49,637,601 54,388,127 54,286,116 (102,011) 0%

Nigeria 1,675,375,490 1,299,704,755 1,518,260,904 1,675,266,702 157,005,798 10%

Norway 1,563,069,795 1,518,355,528 1,674,407,731 1,599,672,167 (74,735,564) -4%

Oman 178,817,153 156,734,163 185,475,215 185,548,713 73,498 0%
Cumulative SDR Use % Change 

SDR Allocations in Holdings

Members through Sept 2009 as of Aug 2009 as of Sept 2009 as of June 2010 since Sept 2009 Sept 2009-June 2010

Pakistan 988,564,251 850,845,985 903,129,296 854,072,406 (49,056,890) -5%

Palau 2,957,665 2,298,060 2,957,665 2,957,642 (23) 0%

Panama 197,011,025 153,547,334 171,081,754 171,036,407 (45,347) 0%

Papua New Guinea 125,494,317 97,583,459 116,221,406 10,202,849 (106,018,557) -91%

Paraguay 95,193,533 102,893,384 110,333,068 110,391,693 58,625 0%

Peru 609,893,068 478,773,928 524,095,820 524,155,930 60,110 0%

Philippines 837,964,699 658,885,853 727,977,059 727,852,393 (124,666) 0%

Poland 1,304,639,688 1,049,299,538 1,339,086,110 1,339,542,135 456,025 0%

Portugal 806,476,958 723,035,373 833,180,211 833,481,490 301,279 0%

Qatar 251,404,103 225,089,934 268,114,912 268,229,684 114,772 0%

Romania 984,767,719 785,792,324 927,476,687 809,555,959 (117,920,728) -13%

Russian Federation 5,671,802,571 4,410,124,220 5,674,543,507 5,676,315,625 1,772,118 0%

Rwanda 76,821,809 79,785,449 83,531,343 83,518,416 (12,927) 0%

Samoa 11,091,036 11,248,433 12,598,275 12,599,816 1,541 0%

San Marino 15,533,846 13,751,522 16,683,101 16,691,695 8,594 0%

Sao Tome & Principe 7,098,061 5,495,012 6,487,380 6,478,692 (8,688) 0%

Saudi Arabia 6,682,495,468 5,661,398,099 6,969,947,160 6,971,070,156 1,122,996 0%

Senegal 154,800,399 120,200,697 130,595,170 130,346,377 (248,793) 0%

Serbia 445,035,749 347,112,630 388,772,989 3,521,554 (385,251,435) -99%

Seychelles 8,282,473 6,546,134 7,898,681 7,763,402 (135,279) -2%

Sierra Leone 99,505,615 115,867,546 121,044,335 120,959,341 (84,994) 0%

Singapore 744,212,963 891,759,680 980,117,741 980,845,749 728,008 0%

Slovak Republic 340,477,093 266,123,077 341,581,917 341,682,871 100,954 0%

Slovenia 215,881,743 179,434,844 198,124,218 198,150,889 26,671 0%

Solomon Islands 9,908,306 7,716,672 9,260,956 9,259,955 (1,001) 0%

Somalia 46,462,893 18,606,613 18,606,613 18,553,575 (53,038) 0%

South Africa 1,785,415,141 1,608,240,074 1,788,157,854 1,788,148,476 (9,378) 0%

Spain 2,827,557,226 2,306,351,798 2,574,924,575 2,935,192,163 360,267,588 14%

Sri Lanka 395,460,206 306,624,326 18,301,590 5,345,830 (12,955,760) -71%

St. Kitts and Nevis 8,503,183 6,615,675 8,521,201 8,500,203 (20,998) 0%

St. Lucia 14,566,777 12,958,947 15,442,084 15,428,919 (13,165) 0%

St. Vincent 7,911,818 6,154,037 7,559,384 753,653 (6,805,731) -90%

Sudan 177,992,273 125,800,273 125,800,273 125,700,141 (100,132) 0%

Suriname 88,092,106 68,604,601 80,672,074 80,658,137 (13,937) 0%

SDR Holdings

Suriname 88,092,106 68,604,601 80,672,074 80,658,137 (13,937) 0%

Swaziland 48,284,670 40,139,372 44,407,635 44,408,293 658 0%

Sweden 2,248,964,456 1,964,797,891 2,290,542,842 2,287,765,235 (2,777,607) 0%

Switzerland 3,288,037,190 2,724,829,560 3,449,046,807 3,382,291,528 (66,755,279) -2%

Syrian Arab Republic 279,182,398 254,217,003 279,186,844 279,184,575 (2,269) 0%

Tajikistan 82,083,426 64,865,495 82,454,968 69,836,845 (12,618,123) -15%

Tanzania 190,511,413 147,488,907 159,181,801 158,656,897 (524,904) 0%

Thailand 970,266,384 887,768,581 971,359,893 971,708,644 348,751 0%

Timor-Leste 7,727,908 6,078,740 7,727,908 7,727,845 (63) 0%

Togo 70,330,612 54,414,945 59,358,418 59,227,934 (130,484) 0%

Tonga 6,580,827 5,604,702 7,070,491 7,074,008 3,517 0%

Trinidad and Tobago 321,134,936 249,391,844 275,512,211 275,505,189 (7,022) 0%

Tunisia 272,775,783 215,669,129 241,816,654 241,782,949 (33,705) 0%

Turkey 1,071,329,729 893,244,982 969,145,346 969,752,083 606,737 0%

Turkmenistan 69,818,076 55,746,497 69,818,076 69,817,506 (570) 0%

Tuvalu* 1,688,713 1,688,713 1,688,713 

Uganda 173,060,260 133,832,826 143,690,667 143,617,938 (72,729) 0%

Ukraine 1,309,443,407 1,021,271,249 1,313,637,611 7,218,329 (1,306,419,282) -99%

United Arab Emirates 568,406,413 464,759,457 540,969,865 541,124,362 154,497 0%

United Kingdom 10,134,203,762 8,220,918,111 8,736,925,749 9,149,914,836 412,989,087 5%

United States 35,315,680,813 33,626,003,353 36,573,014,020 36,886,469,991 313,455,971 1%

Uruguay 293,259,926 229,631,308 245,702,780 245,610,474 (92,306) 0%

Uzbekistan 262,789,980 204,766,822 263,251,821 263,250,539 (1,282) 0%

Vanuatu 16,266,741 13,913,249 17,577,723 1,568,777 (16,008,946) -91%

Venezuela 2,543,255,876 1,984,701,299 2,239,850,286 2,239,696,466 (153,820) 0%

Vietnam 314,792,001 244,530,725 267,699,671 267,834,018 134,347 0%

Yemen 232,251,303 186,018,970 207,018,337 191,108,030 (15,910,307) -8%

Zambia 469,137,515 368,929,789 407,194,681 406,622,838 (571,843) 0%

Zimbabwe 272,178,883 261,978,883 261,978,883 165,074,724 (96,904,159) -37%

Arab Monetary Fund 0 3,470,257 3,733,384 1,707,235 (2,026,149) -54%

BIS 0 354,779,796 358,832,772 179,616,531 (179,216,241) -50%
Cumulative SDR Use % Change 

SDR Allocations in Holdings

Members through Sept 2009 as of Aug 2009 as of Sept 2009 as of June 2010 since Sept 2009 Sept 2009-June 2010

BEAC 0 2,780,935 2,780,935 217,695,062 214,914,127 7728%

BCEAO 0 5,261,756 5,261,756 4,972,988 (288,768) -5%

ECB 0 188,789,497 296,089,497 357,860,912 61,771,415 21%

Islamic Dev't Bank 0 3,564,348 3,564,348 3,571,083 6,735 0%

SFF SUBSIDY 0 1,020,749 1,020,749 1,022,680 1,931 0%

General Resources Acct. 0 2,311,854,138 2,317,387,959 3,218,109,627 900,721,668 39%

Total 203,983,585,060 182,617,580,200 203,983,585,060 203,985,273,773

*Tuvalu received an SDR allocation when it became an IMF member in 2010.

SDR Holdings