Data from the Central Bank of Iraq shows a decrease in the amount of printed currency by 1.2 trillion dinars between the months of November and December 2023, while Al-Sumaria News concluded, through a historical review of the printed currency, that this decrease in the amount of currency is the third largest decrease recorded in 20 years.
According to data obtained by Al-Sumaria News, the total amount of “printed” currency in Iraq until December 2023 amounted to 101.4 trillion Iraqi dinars, a decrease from the amount of currency that was present in Iraq in November 2023, which then amounted to 102.6 trillion Iraqi dinars.
This means that the amount of printed currency decreased by 1.2 trillion dinars, which is supposed to have “disappeared,” and the only way to do this is usually for the Central Bank of Iraq to destroy this currency, and it usually compensates for it by printing another currency.
Al-Sumaria News reviewed historical data for currency printing in Iraq, and it was found that the printing and quantity of currency takes an upward trend every month, and the quantity of currency rarely decreases, as printing continues, which increases the quantity of currency, but destruction is the least common act.
The data shows that the largest recorded decrease in the amount of the Iraqi currency since 2004 until now was between June and July 2014, when the decrease reached 2 trillion dinars, and then between November and December 2015, with a decrease of 1.4 trillion dinars, and also between May and June 2021, with a decrease of 1.4 trillion dinars. .
The latest decline between December and November 2023 comes as the third largest decline in the amount of currency printed within one month, amounting to 1.2 trillion dinars, since 2004 until now, that is, 20 years ago. It also comes among only 6 similar declines, amounting to more than one trillion dinars within a month, for twenty years.
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