Economic Policy & Debt · Cambodia
Yearly data from 1993 to 2025, from the World Bank.
Cambodia's total reserves in months of imports was 7.91 in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 50.92% from 5.24 in 2015 (4.2% a year on average, compounded).
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 7.91 | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 10.32 | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 5.24 | 2015 |
| Highest | 10.32 | 2020 |
| Lowest | 0.48 | 1993 |
| Average since 2016 | 7.55 | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 0.48 | 1993 |
Over five years it is down 23.33% from 10.32 in 2020 (5.17% a year on average, compounded). Since 1993 it is up 1,559% from 0.48 in 1993 (9.17% a year on average, compounded).
In 2025, Cambodia's total reserves in months of imports rose 3.4% on 2024 (from 7.65 to 7.91).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was +7.2% and a typical year strayed about 19.5% from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.2 standard deviations below that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 219.4% in 1994 and the biggest yearly fall was 31.9% in 2021. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2016 to 2025 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains 2% of the movement over 10 observed years, so the value is moving around more than it is heading anywhere.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
In 2025, Cambodia had the 21st highest value of the 112 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Cambodia | 7.91 | 2025 |
| World | 8.62 | 2025 |
| East Asia & Pacific | 11.11 | 2025 |
| Lower middle income | 7.7 | 2025 |
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 item is expressed in terms of the number of months of imports of goods and services they could pay for [X/(Imports/12)].
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
| Year | Total reserves in months of imports |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 7.91 |
| 2024 | 7.65 |
| 2023 | 7.77 |
| 2022 | 5.83 |
| 2021 | 7.03 |
| 2020 | 10.32 |
| 2019 | 8.1 |
| 2018 | 7.39 |
| 2017 | 7.38 |
| 2016 | 6.08 |
| 2015 | 5.24 |
| 2014 | 4.77 |
| 2013 | 4.42 |
| 2012 | 4.87 |
| 2011 | 4.76 |
| 2010 | 5.6 |
| 2009 | 6.23 |
| 2008 | 4.83 |
| 2007 | 4.42 |
| 2006 | 2.84 |
| 2005 | 2.82 |
| 2004 | 3.31 |
| 2003 | 3.55 |
| 2002 | 3.69 |
| 2001 | 3.17 |
| 2000 | 2.99 |
| 1999 | 3.01 |
| 1998 | 3.53 |
| 1997 | 2.73 |
| 1996 | 2.3 |
| 1995 | 1.6 |
| 1994 | 1.52 |
| 1993 | 0.4771 |
Every indicator for Cambodia is on the Cambodia data page.
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator FI.RES.TOTL.MO, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: International Financial Statistics database, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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