At the end of February this year, Egypt’s foreign exchanges grew by 3.29% to $45.509 billion, from $44.06 billion in February last year. According to the Central Bank, the current level of reserves covers about 7.2 months of Egypt's commodity imports, which is higher than the world average of about three months of imports.
The foreign currencies held in Egypt's foreign exchange reserves are mainly composed of the US dollar, the euro, the Australian dollar, the yen, and the yuan. A few years ago, Egypt went through an acute currency crisis causing a shortage of dollars and a significant drop in foreign exchange reserves.
By September 2016, these reserves had reached the critical threshold of $19 billion and authorities adopted a series of reforms aimed mainly at revitalizing the economy, including the decision to devalue the Egyptian pound and to move to a floating exchange rate regime in November 2016.
In this wake, the country signed a $12 billion economic and financial program supported by the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for three years. This has allowed Egypt's foreign exchange reserves to rise again since then.
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