Data · Finance & banking
Total reserves in months of imports: Vietnam, 1996–2025
- Latest (2025)
- 2.1 months
- Source
- World Bank
- Code
- FI.RES.TOTL.MO
- Frequency
- Yearly
Definition
Reserve assets are external assets, including monetary gold, that are readily available to and controlled by monetary authorities for meeting balance of payments financing needs, for intervention in exchange markets to affect the currency exchange rate, and for other related purposes (such as maintaining confidence in the currency and the economy, and serving as a basis for foreign borrowing). Reserve assets must be denominated and settled in foreign currency. This item is expressed in terms of the number of months of imports of goods and services they could pay for [X/(Imports/12)].
What the series shows
The series runs from 1996 to 2025 (30 years of data). It moved from 1.6 to 2.1 months, a change of 28.5%. The highest value was 4.1 in 2007 and the lowest 1.4 in 2011. The comparison below sets Vietnam against 9 neighbouring economies on the latest available year.
Using it in a thesis
Indicators like this one are typical control or explanatory variables in macro and finance theses: merge the CSV with your other series on the year column, check for missing years before running a regression, and log-transform level variables that grow over time. If you use the series in a panel with other countries, take every country from the same source and vintage so the definitions match. Cite the original publisher, not this site, as shown below.
Values by year
| Year | Value (months) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.1 |
| 2024 | 2.4 |
| 2023 | 3.0 |
| 2022 | 2.7 |
| 2021 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 4.0 |
| 2019 | 3.4 |
| 2018 | 2.5 |
| 2017 | 2.5 |
| 2016 | 2.2 |
| 2015 | 1.9 |
| 2014 | 2.5 |
| 2013 | 2.1 |
| 2012 | 2.5 |
| 2011 | 1.4 |
| 2010 | 1.6 |
| 2009 | 2.6 |
| 2008 | 3.2 |
| 2007 | 4.1 |
| 2006 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 2.4 |
| 2003 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 2.2 |
| 2001 | 2.4 |
| 2000 | 2.3 |
| 1999 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 1.7 |
| 1997 | 1.7 |
| 1996 | 1.6 |
Comparison with other countries
| Country | Latest year | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnam | 2025 | 2.1 |
| Thailand | 2025 | 8.1 |
| Indonesia | 2025 | 5.5 |
| Malaysia | 2025 | 4.3 |
| Philippines | 2025 | 7.3 |
| Singapore | 2025 | 4.4 |
| Cambodia | 2025 | 7.9 |
| Laos | 2025 | 3.4 |
| Myanmar | 2019 | 3.3 |
| China | 2025 | 11.9 |
How to cite (APA 7)
World Bank. (2026). Total reserves in months of imports, Vietnam [Data set]. World Development Indicators. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/FI.RES.TOTL.MO?locations=VN
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved 2026-11-02. The CSV has one row per period
with the variable name fi_res_totl_mo, ready for Stata, R or SPSS.