The SDR is an international reserve asset, created by the IMF in 1969 to supplement its member countries’ official reserves. To date, a total of SDR 660.7 billion (equivalent to about US$943 billion) have been allocated. This includes the largest-ever allocation of about SDR 456 billion approved on August 2, 2021 (effective on August 23, 2021).

The IMF created the SDR as a supplementary international reserve asset in 1969, when currencies were tied to the price of gold and the US dollar was the leading international reserve asset. The IMF defined the SDR as equivalent to a fractional amount of gold that was equivalent to one US dollar.

2025年3月28日 · The value of the U.S. dollar in terms of the SDR is the reciprocal of the sum of the dollar values, based on market exchange rates, of specified quantities of the SDR basket currencies. See SDR Valuation .

Special drawing rights (SDRs, code XDR) are supplementary foreign exchange reserve assets defined and maintained by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). [1] SDRs are units of account for the IMF, and not a currency per se. [2] They represent a claim to currency held by IMF member countries for which they may be exchanged. [3]

特别提款权（英語： Special Drawing Rights ，缩写：SDRs）是國際貨幣基金組織（IMF）創設的一種儲備資產和記账單位，IMF于1969年进行第一次国际货币基金协定修订时创立的用于进行国际支付的特殊手段。

2024年8月21日 · Special drawing rights (SDRs) refer to an international type of monetary reserve currency created by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 1969. It operates as...

2024年12月5日 · Special drawing rights (SDRs) are a world reserve asset whose value is based on a basket of five major international currencies. SDRs were created by the...

Yield and Cost of SDRs. The IMF pays interest on the SDR holdings by member countries to increase its attractiveness as a reserve asset. It also levies a charge on the cumulative SDR allocations to members. The rate of charge is equal to the rate of interest.

The latest IMF’s Currency Composition of Official Foreign Exchange Reserves (COFER) survey results show that total foreign exchange (FX) reserves decreased to $12.36 trillion. ... They are reserve assets other than monetary gold, SDRs, and reserve position in the IMF; and consist of the monetary authorities' claims on nonresidents in the form ...

IMF Rule O-2(a) defines the value of the U.S. dollar in terms of the SDR as the reciprocal of the sum of the equivalents in U.S. dollars of the amounts of the currencies in the SDR basket. Under current IMF procedures, each U.S. dollar equivalent is calculated on the basis of the mid-market rates, as provided to the IMF by the Bank of England ...