Country Report Bahrain April 2011

Data and charts: Monthly data

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Exchange rate BD:US$ (av)
2008	0.376	0.376	0.376	0.376	0.376	0.376	0.376	0.376	0.376	0.376	0.376	0.376
2009	0.376	0.376	0.376	0.376	0.376	0.376	0.376	0.376	0.376	0.376	0.376	0.376
2010	0.376	0.376	0.376	0.376	0.376	0.376	0.376	0.376	0.376	0.376	0.376	0.376
Exchange rate BD:¥100 (av)
2008	0.405	0.402	0.379	0.386	0.392	0.402	0.402	0.411	0.401	0.376	0.365	0.343
2009	0.339	0.349	0.368	0.372	0.363	0.363	0.355	0.357	0.343	0.340	0.336	0.338
2010	0.343	0.339	0.341	0.351	0.346	0.341	0.329	0.321	0.317	0.307	0.310	0.313
M1 (end-period; % change, year on year)
2008	24.1	26.0	25.6	25.8	29.7	31.1	25.1	44.0	37.8	20.7	21.8	19.8
2009	15.5	12.8	11.9	6.8	-0.7	-0.8	-6.0	-4.1	-2.1	4.3	0.2	13.7
2010	14.1	5.2	6.0	9.2	13.9	9.6	18.5	13.8	12.5	11.1	18.9	n/a
M2 (end-period; % change, year on year)
2008	38.2	38.2	40.8	33.5	33.5	37.9	34.2	29.6	30.8	31.5	25.3	19.7
2009	15.9	15.0	12.0	11.8	5.4	2.4	3.7	3.8	0.9	-0.8	2.6	5.8
2010	7.0	5.2	6.7	9.6	9.5	13.8	15.6	12.8	14.0	13.9	11.2	n/a
Treasury bill rate (av; %)
2008	3.7	2.8	2.0	2.0	2.1	2.3	2.3	2.3	2.4	3.0	2.9	2.7
2009	1.5	1.0	1.3	1.3	1.1	1.1	0.9	0.8	0.8	0.9	0.9	1.1
2010	1.0	0.9	0.9	0.8	0.8	1.0	0.8	0.7	0.8	0.7	0.7	n/a
Total exports fob (US$ m)
2008	1,292	1,438	1,591	1,594	1,675	1,884	1,779	1,830	1,530	n/a	n/a	n/a
2009	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
2010	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Total imports cif (US$ m)
2008	854.8	946.3	1,053.5	1,116.8	1,192.0	1,096.0	1,023.7	997.6	659.0	n/a	n/a	n/a
2009	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
2010	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Trade balance fob-cif (US$ m)
2008	436.7	491.2	537.7	477.6	483.0	788.0	755.3	832.7	870.8	n/a	n/a	n/a
2009	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
2010	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Central bank of Bahrain foreign reserves (US$ m)
2008	4,305	5,016	4,977	4,716	4,493	4,307	4,252	3,857	3,615	3,189	3,423	3,797
2009	3,946	3,799	3,761	3,679	3,468	3,628	3,684	3,817	3,946	3,450	3,555	3,534
2010	3,817	4,036	5,288	5,003	5,106	4,986	4,970	4,975	4,842	4,741	4,920	n/a
Sources: IMF, International Financial Statistics; Haver Analytics.

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