Talk:Tables of historical exchange rates to the United States dollar

TO DO
- Handle EUR in a user-friendly way

- All remaining countries Pcb21 15:26 Apr 22, 2003 (UTC)28.11.2006

If Data is from CIA they are liars! look at UK 2006 - range is between 0.58 and 0.511 dream on with your crazy ignorant data!


 * You muppet. Ever considered that might be the number of pounds to the dollar? try yahoo: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=GBPUSD=X&t=5y&l=on&z=m&q=l&c= values are between 1.75 and 1.95 - so USDGBP values must be between .58 and .511. Still got a problem with the data?

USD is free falling
USD is free falling. Pretty hard to say "exchange rate of 2003", when it may differ by more than 15%. -grin 07:22 21 May 2003 (UTC)


 * 15% seems like a fairly reasonable change for a bad year. What else are you going to use, the Zimbabwean Dollar? Please don't say gold - it doubled in 1980 and then halved over the next three years. Volatility like that would make the historic values useless.


 * Very true, I believe the current figures for 2002 and earlier are all start of year figures from CIA factbook. I will quote figures with a date from now on.

No reason not to do it more frequently than once per year (just change column headings) if energy permits though Pcb21 09:03 21 May 2003 (UTC)

Re: Hong Kong currency's fluctuations. Very limited, since the HK$ is pegged to the US$. olivier 05:11 14 Jul 2003 (UTC)

This article is quite poor!

 * Comments like this are taken more seriously if try to fix the article yourself.

The currencies are too numerous


 * The number of currencies around is hardly the fault of the article.

and hard to draw any real conclusions.


 * I don't really follow this. It's a table of data.

The data does not go back far enough (20 or 30 years would be interesting)


 * The data was taken from the CIA for all years available. If more substantial data is available let me have it.
 * Good luck finding that data. The data from various sources doesn't even add up (UN, World Bank, etc.)
 * especially going back more than a few years. If someone could figure this out and get data going back to
 * 1980 it would be quite a feat. I honestly don't think it will happen. and the British pound is listed under F, rather than U for United Kingdom.


 * I have fixed this, you could've done the same.
 * PS. If you haven't already guessed, yes this data did take a very long time to get together.
 * Please sign your edits.


 * Pcb21| Pete 20:49, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I added a table of Argentine currencies monthly exchange rates from 1914 to 2004 on Economy of Argentina article. Alpertron 16:06, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Yahoo has 10 years of history for many currency pairs, eg. http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=USDSGD=X#symbol=USDSGD=X;range=5y;compare=. If anyone is interested, anyway. I think it could be more accurate than data some bureaucrat compiled from who knows where... I'd edit it, except I'm afraid I might break something. (Okay, that, and there are too many currencies.) 66.250.143.211 (talk) 13:28, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

Huh?
I stumbled across this page & was bewildered that it gives an exchange rate for the Eritrean Nafka against the dollar for 1986 -- several years before the Nafka existed! I looked thru the page history, in hope of learnign just what happened & if it can easily be fixed, but the years at the top of the table have been moved around & reassigned while the values in the fields have been left alone. This article's become a mess, & it badly needs cleaning up. -- llywrch 03:04, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

typo
There's a typo in the table. In the row with years, 1992 is typed between 1989 and 1991 - should probably be 1990 ;-)

Secondly, what does this table take into account? all adjusted for purchasing power parity and current prices or something else??


 * Just to add to the problems, pretty much all of the Codes for the Currencies lead to TLA disambiguation pages, or just simply all red links and lead nowhere. AndyZ 13:25, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Data is way off
Using this as a reference, the data on this table is way off. I first noticed that the data for the Philippines is actually for the years 1997-2003 instead of 2000-2006 (as the article's table indicates). Then I looked at a few other currencies and realized the years for all of the currencies is screwed up. Coffee 05:02, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

This data is way off. You at least have to decide on some parameters for uniformity. It doesn't make sense to use Jan 1 fx for some values, average fx for others, and who knows what for others. Sorry, I don't know how to edit the information as this is my first post, but this might be helpful for recent AVERAGE annual exchange rates: http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/g5a/current/default.htm. Iwasnthere (talk) 10:40, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

Agreed, Data is poor
Just noting the exchange rate to Costa Rica as an example, the difference is more than 200 Colones.216.184.123.71 13:30, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Graph
I've removed that enormous graph because it's really inconsistent. The caption and the graph give different start dates, and the vertical axis appears to be the number of UK Pounds, Australian Dollars and 100's of Japanese Yen per US dollar, but the number of US Dollars per Euro. If someone has time to create a new one, can I also suggest that 800px is a tad big? Pfainuk 13:07, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Euro (Eurozone)
The Euro figures appear to be in Dollars per Euro rather than Euros per Dollar, except for 2006. All other currencies including the UK Pound appear to be in currency units per Dollar. Karl 13:38, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I now see the figures have been corrected and now show the fall of the dollar against the Euro that has occurred over the period Karl 10:37, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Sorry Karl, didn’t see you made a note about it on talk. --Van helsing 11:01, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Pound Sterling (United Kingdom)
The recent figures for the Pound Sterling seem to be suspiciously high. I'd expect them to begin with 0.5 rather than 0.6 as shown. The present exchange rate is even below 0.5. I'll mark the suspect figures with a qustuion mark. Karl 10:52, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Done from, thanks for the catch. Just a note: you’re very welcome to correct these errors immediately; you don’t necessarily have to first mention them on this talkpage to get consent in changing them. --Van helsing 13:07, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

I don't have a source at hand. which source did you use? Karl 12:01, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
 * The sources used in the article are mentioned at the bottom of the article page. If the source for a particular exchange rate is not available (which they actually should be, see WP:CITE), Googling often delivers something useful. In this case I used a PDF-file at http://fx.sauder.ubc.ca which was mentioned in the “See also” section of the article. --Van helsing 14:12, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. Karl 12:24, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Cleanup
I removed the cleanup because I think the article is now OK in terms of Manual of Style. On a side note I think was a horrible idea for an article. For as many different currencies there are and how much they can change over a year I think its somewhat misrepresentive to pick one date and peg that as the exchange rate for the entire year. If this were to ever be a good article someone would need to monitor and verify each rate listed.  Barkeep   Chat 19:43, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Yet another error, should the article be deleted?
Like other contributors, I found an error in the abbreviations of currency names. Perhaps this kind of huge (and boring :]) article is simply too hard to fact-check? If nobody is capable of doing a thorough fact checking perhaps it should just be deleted (or stripped to show only the 10 or so most common currencies) so as not to mislead the readers... Perhaps the title should also mention that these are exchange rates w.r.t the USD; it's not obvious at all when skipping to a random entry in the table. --Sgt. Salt (talk) 20:02, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

The Papua New Guinea Data is wildly off. The exchange rate was not 1.4 in 2000 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.1.34.30 (talk) 19:30, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Table 1840 to 2000
I just added the data for the GBP back to 1840. My source is http://www.measuringworth.com/datasets/exchangeglobal/ - there are other currencies there too, in case anyone has the time and desire to do the same for the others. 78.144.61.154 (talk) 11:56, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

It would be nice if someone with the skills would make a chart of the historicle value of the various MAJOR currencies dating from way back? At least to 1600-1800 until present. Given the history of money, it seems to me the base currency should be the pound sterling and all others rated Vs it? Major currencies with historic value: GBP, Dollar, Mark (Various?), Yen, Yuan, French Frank, Spanish ?, Itallion Lira, Ottoman-Turkish ?, Russian Ruble, Portugal ?, others? This would be very useful as many other articles will refer to the cost of something in then year currencies and we now have no idea what value to place on that thing? Sincerely, Stewart, NeoconShooter, the most addicted user of Wiki? ( >20 Hours/week!) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Neoconshooter (talk • contribs) 02:22, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

it would be nice to present the relevant currencies from 1840-2000 which is obviously not the case for euro and swiss franc, but much more for DM and french franc. why not showing this important fact? in the years of the table there was no euro, but the number two in the world these days, deutschmark, played a mayor role, up to 15% world share.

greets, a new-user of english-wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.139.29.206 (talk) 16:14, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

Historical Exchange Rates From 1950s to Present
I found a good site to see historical exchange rates from 1950s to present. http://fxtop.com/en/historical-exchange-rates.php Please note I'm not affiliated with the site. Hope you'll find it useful. 124.195.114.166 (talk) 15:15, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

2020: Is the data and presentation useful or accurate?
I took a look at the tables in the article. My first concern was that "Table for 1850 to 2000" seems to show one rate for an entire year, with gaps between years of either 5, 10, or 15 years. There's no standard approach to the use of any of those periods. The article has 1970, 1985, 1995, and 2000. Confusing.

So, I did my own calculations based upon reputable on-line daily exchange rate records between UK Pound and US Dollar. The maximum and minimum rates for several years were as described below, from that same daily record:


 * In the article, the entry in "Table for 1850 to 2000" has the rate for Pound Sterling under "2000" as 0.4993. I have no idea what that is supposed to represent or how it was calculated. It is not the maximum, it's massively less than the minimum for 2000 or any of the previous four years... which means that it's clearly not even close to the arithmetic mean for 2000 (which I calculated to be 0.66141) or the five years 1996-2000, either individually or collectively.


 * In "Table for recent years", the article states that, for the year 2000, the rate was 0.6609. It's not clear how that was calculated, but it certainly is not the arithmetic mean.


 * Although I only looked at a five year period between the $US and £GB, there is enough of a question of accuracy to make the accuracy of the other rates for other currencies suspect.

I appreciate that providing comprehensive data as this article seems to require would be very time and labour consuming, and I'm only bringing it to the attention of other editors. As somebody already suggested, it may be time to "retire" this article.PårWöet (talk) 05:42, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

Default sorting
Table for recent years table seems to be roughly alphabetical but when looking closer, it's sorted neither by Country (United Arab Emirates is the first), nor Currency (Emirati dirham is the first) nor Code (ALL, DZD, AOA). Maybe it's not a big issue when viewing as each column is sortable but it seems to make problems when updating. E.g. if it was sorted by Code, I could find a list of the current exchanges rates sorted by Code (dealing with possible missing data for some), and then I could insert a new column (e.g. for 2022). Grillofrances (talk) 17:39, 17 October 2022 (UTC)


 * I just changed the default sort order to be by the Code. Grillofrances (talk) 04:53, 7 November 2022 (UTC)