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This is a list of tables showing the historical timeline of the exchange rate for the Indian rupee (INR) against the special drawing rights unit (SDR), United States dollar (USD), pound sterling (GBP), Deutsche mark (DM), euro (EUR) and Japanese yen (JPY). The rupee was worth one shilling and sixpence in sterling in 1947.
Officially, the Indian rupee has a market-determined exchange rate. However, the Reserve Bank of India trades actively in the USD/INR currency market to impact effective exchange rates. Thus, the currency regime in place for the Indian rupee with respect to the US dollar is a de facto controlled exchange rate.
India was forced to sell dollars to the extent of close to US$35 billion in the spot markets in Financial Year 2009 due to 22% depreciation in rupee (against the dollar) in the same fiscal year 2009. In 2009, India purchased 200 tonnes of gold from the International Monetary Fund, worth US$6.7bn (€4.57bn, £4.10bn). [15]
These foreign-currency deposits are the financial assets of the central banks and monetary authorities that are held in different reserve currencies (e.g., the U.S. dollar, the euro, the pound sterling, the Japanese yen, the Swiss franc, the Indian rupees and the Chinese renminbi) and which are used to back its liabilities (e.g., the local ...
As per The Economist, 78 million of India's population are considered middle class as of 2017, if defined using the cutoff of those making more than $10 per day, a standard used by the India's National Council of Applied Economic Research. [105] India's gross domestic savings rate stood at 29.3% of GDP in 2022. [106]
The number of "401(k) millionaires" — 401(k) plan participants with balances of at least $1 million — has reached a record high, new data from Fidelity Investments shows.. As of June, there ...
Searching for "million rupees" vs "lakh rupees" on Google Books returns around 540 results for the first phrase and 1280 for the second, except a very large number of the the first group are British publications from the 20th century, whereas the second group is made mostly of Indian publications.
A cool million today has the not-so-chill buying power of roughly $600,000 and change in 2004. And if you have a traditional IRA account, your withdrawals will be taxed like income — maybe at 24 ...