Bulgaria - Real effective exchange rate index (2010 = 100)

The value for Real effective exchange rate index (2010 = 100) in Bulgaria was 105.84 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 28 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 105.84 in 2021 and a minimum value of 45.46 in 1994.

Definition: Real effective exchange rate is the nominal effective exchange rate (a measure of the value of a currency against a weighted average of several foreign currencies) divided by a price deflator or index of costs.

Source: International Monetary Fund, International Financial Statistics.

See also:

Year Value
1993 51.41
1994 45.46
1995 53.59
1996 46.22
1997 56.51
1998 65.43
1999 67.06
2000 69.26
2001 72.50
2002 75.70
2003 78.91
2004 82.75
2005 83.05
2006 86.64
2007 91.65
2008 99.66
2009 103.88
2010 100.00
2011 101.45
2012 100.02
2013 100.92
2014 100.11
2015 96.82
2016 96.97
2017 98.03
2018 101.31
2019 101.81
2020 104.67
2021 105.84

Development Relevance: In a market-based economy, household, producer, and government choices about resource allocation are influenced by relative prices, including the real exchange rate, real wages, real interest rates, and other prices in the economy. Relative prices also largely reflect these agents' choices. Thus relative prices convey vital information about the interaction of economic agents in an economy and with the rest of the world.

Limitations and Exceptions: Because of conceptual and data limitations, changes in real effective exchange rates should be interpreted with caution.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: The real effective exchange rate is a nominal effective exchange rate index adjusted for relative movements in national price or cost indicators of the home country, selected countries, and the euro area. A nominal effective exchange rate index is the ratio (expressed on the base 2010 = 100) of an index of a currency's period-average exchange rate to a weighted geometric average of exchange rates for currencies of selected countries and the euro area. For most high-income countries weights are derived from industrial country trade in manufactured goods. Data are compiled from the nominal effective exchange rate index and a cost indicator of relative normalized unit labor costs in manufacturing. For selected other countries the nominal effective exchange rate index is based on manufactured goods and primary products trade with partner or competitor countries. For these countries the real effective exchange rate index is the nominal index adjusted for relative changes in consumer prices; an increase represents an appreciation of the local currency.

Base Period: 2010

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Financial Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Exchange rates & prices