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Foreign Reserves by African country

2025

Total reserves including gold, in current US dollars.

Africa, 202516 of 54 countries
$456.95bntotal across the countries with a figure
Highest in 2025Libya · $104.66bnLowest in 2025Liberia · $338.8mReported in 202516 of 54 countries surveyed
All 54, ranked. Pinned countries are drawn in vermilion.
0$50.00bn$100.00bn$150.00bn$200.00bnLibya$104.66bnAlgeria$76.83bnSouth Africa$76.02bnEgypt$48.88bnMorocco$48.45bnNigeria$46.02bnAngola$13.54bnKenya$12.39bnGhana$12.13bnMauritius$10.31bnNamibia$3.10bnRwanda$1.96bnCabo Verde$1.26bnDjibouti$655.7mComoros$409.1mLiberia$338.8mBeninno dataBotswanano dataBurkina Fasono dataBurundino dataCameroonno dataCentral African Republicno dataChadno dataCote d'Ivoireno dataDemocratic Republic of the Congono dataEquatorial Guineano dataEritreano dataEswatinino dataEthiopiano dataGabonno dataGambiano dataGuineano dataGuinea-Bissauno dataLesothono dataMadagascarno dataMalawino dataMalino dataMauritaniano dataMozambiqueno dataNigerno dataRepublic of the Congono dataSao Tome and Principeno dataSenegalno dataSeychellesno dataSierra Leoneno dataSomaliano dataSouth Sudanno dataSudanno dataTanzaniano dataTogono dataTunisiano dataUgandano dataZambiano dataZimbabweno data
20142025
World Bank · national statistics offices · the provider's own estimates where a country has not reportedCC BY 4.0
Countries

By region

Summed across the countries with a figure, so a region’s total is only as complete as its coverage.
Northern Africa4 of 6 countries$278.81bn
Southern Africa2 of 5 countries$79.13bn
Western Africa4 of 16 countries$59.75bn
Eastern Africa5 of 18 countries$25.73bn
Middle Africa1 of 9 countries$13.54bn
Africaall 54 countries · 16 with a 2025 figure$456.95bn

What to know before you quote this

Specific to this series. For how we treat data generally, see methods.
38 countries have no usable 2025 recordNot a low value — no figure within the window. Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon and 33 more are hatched on the map and blank in the table.
Certainty is judged year by yearA country can be Reported in one year and Modelled the next. The tag follows the year on the scrubber, so the 2025 assessment is not a verdict on the whole series.

About this data

Foreign ReservesTotal reserves including gold, in current US dollars.
SourceWorld Bank, with processing by Africa API
UnitUS$
Last updated15 Oct 2026
Next expected updateOct 2027
Date range1960–2025
Coverage16 of 54 countries · 16 reported, 0 modelled, 38 with no usable figure

How the figure is made

ReportedA national statistics office or the original provider published the figure for that year directly. 16 countries did so for 2025 — the certainty shown on this page is that 2025 assessment, not a per-series one.ModelledNo direct figure that year. The provider’s own estimate, interpolation or projection stands in, and is marked as such wherever it appears.No dataNo usable figure within the window. Drawn hatched on the map and left blank in the table — not zero, and not filled in.

These three states are used the same way across every indicator on the site — how we treat certainty explains the full set and what we never do to a number.

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How to cite this page
Africa API (2026) — "Foreign Reserves". Data adapted from World Bank. Retrieved 18 Oct 2026 from africa-api.com/indicators/reserves
The request behind this view
GET /v1/data?metric_key=total_reserves_usd&year=2025&limit=100

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Foreign Reserves: most recent figure per country, highest to lowest

40 countries · each with its own period

The figures at the top of the page compare every country in the same year. This list takes each country’s newest figure instead, whatever its period, so the order can differ.

#CountryForeign ReservesPeriod
1Libya$104.66B2025
2Algeria$76.83B2025
3South Africa$76.02B2025
4Egypt$48.88B2025
5Morocco$48.45B2025
6Nigeria$46.02B2025
7Angola$13.54B2025
8Kenya$12.39B2025
9Ghana$12.13B2025
10Mauritius$10.31B2025
11Tunisia$9.34B2024
12Democratic Republic of the Congo$5.1B2023
13Cameroon$5.06B2024
14Zambia$4.09B2024
15Mozambique$3.84B2024
16Ethiopia$3.78B2024
17Uganda$3.48B2024
18Botswana$3.46B2024
19Namibia$3.1B2025
20Madagascar$2.78B2024
21Rwanda$1.96B2025
22Chad$1.55B2024
23Guinea$1.35B2024
24Cabo Verde$1.26B2025
25Equatorial Guinea$1.08B2024
26Lesotho$1.01B2024
27Seychelles$773.68M2024
28Republic of the Congo$758.55M2024
29Djibouti$655.74M2025
30Gabon$638.79M2024
31Gambia$628.85M2024
32Eswatini$536.57M2024
33Central African Republic$489.29M2024
34Zimbabwe$484.97M2024
35Sierra Leone$433.27M2024
36Comoros$409.07M2025
37Liberia$338.8M2025
38Burundi$90.35M2023
39Sao Tome and Principe$58.79M2024
40South Sudan$15.96M2024
Which observations are included?
The ranking includes 40 of 54 countries with available observations for 2023 or later and within 2 years of the freshest result. Each figure shows its reporting period. Countries without an eligible observation are omitted.
Does a higher value mean a better result?
The ranking is sorted by value, from highest to lowest. The order does not rate a country's performance. Interpretation depends on the indicator and its definition.

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