This chart shows the fall of the Russian Ruble when compared to the United States Dollar over time.

The Y-axis shows how many rubles one USD is worth.
The X-axis shows time from 1995 untill today, november 14 2024.

A rise in the Y-axis means the Ruble is losing value compared to the USD.

On top of this is an overlay of Russias military operations during the same time.

I am an amature, and this is not ment to support or attack any side. It's just interesting to see how war could potentially have an effect on a country's economy.

Posted by Zealousideal-Bowl635

16 comments

  2. TL;DR: Ruble bad.

    I listened to your critique and updated the post with as many suggestions as possible.
    I reloaded the browser, so I could not make any changes to the image itself, but I did add some clarifying text and a better description and title.
    I hope this will improve the underlying message and reduce the confusion.

    For those who are not custom to exchange rates, a rise in USD/RUB means a decrease in the value of the Ruble compared to the USD. This means the Ruble is getting weaker. This can have many explanation, but is usually not good.

  3. Wow I actually didn’t know Russia was so busy invading other countries.

  4. Nicely done leaders and military conflicts, but the “A rise in the Y-axis means the Ruble is losing value” part is confusing. IMHO it would look much better if it was the other way around and we could see rubble going down, which feels much more natural.

    EDIT: Guys, I understand that graph, no need to explain it to me. My point was that for a layman, who’s not used to see currency market, it might feel more natural, if we saw a nice red line going down. But thanks for the comments, appreciate it.

  5. Thanks for the graphic, but… You chose a rising usd/rub graph to show the fall of rub?
    I think mostly ppl are looking to exchange the other way.

  6. >This chart shows the fall of the Russian Ruble when compared to the United States Dollar over time.

    >The Y-axis shows how many rubles one USD is worth.
    The X-axis shows time from 1995 untill today, november 14 2024.

    >A rise in the Y-axis means the Ruble is losing value compared to the USD.

    This is confusing. If the point is to show a decline in the RUB then show the decline by benchmarking how many USD a RUB buys, not the other way around. By showing a chart with a rising trend but making it about a downward progression, it’s confusing to sort out.

  7. That sharp rise and fall in 2022 is when the big Ukraine invasion began. What causes the fall though? Only looking at that short time frame apparently gives the idea that following invasion Rouble was doing extremely well!

  8. Yeltsin scores 10000% inflation, the best president of Russian Federation.

  9. A lot of the drop in the ruble is because Russia has been printing money at like 3x the rate of the USD.

    You could just do a comparison of the change in money supply for the US and Russia and you’d see a similar trend.

  10. How were the relative inflations in the period? You need to correct both currencies for inflation to get a clearer picture of the change in the exchange rate in term of real goods.

    For example, if the ruble had higher cumulative inflation than the dollar, one would expect, all else equal, that the exchange would devalue by the same ammount relative to the dollar.

  11. Why isn’t the “0” point on the vertical axis even with the horizontal axis?

  12. Falling ruble isn’t that bad for the rich who still can still sell things, exchange to ruble and buy more stuff at home and amass feudal lord type wealth. Domestically the prices isnt rising either AFAIK.

    Ive heard some westerners, americans even migrated to Russia recently and bought some pretty nice houses.

    A countries purchasing power towards energy and domestic food and rent world wide compared to average income should be a better indicator of prosperity than comparing things to dollar. Imho this has raised more than a few eyebrows for me (in norway) when compared to so called “poorer countries” that can have an entire meal on something that cost something like less than a minute of my salary but if I want to buy that here ill have to work for an hour or two.
    It seems like currency strenght is just some scam used to buy cheap raw resources and not actually logical.

    Nice map by the way. Its pretty cool and well done.

  13. It’s just how investing.com choose to display their data.
    In this case it was convenient because the logo would otherwise cover it up.

  14. What does the y height of each war represent? If it’s military spending per war perhaps a stacked area chart would be better.
    Another interesting twist on this would be to see total military spending of each country as a %gdp and you could just include the wars each country is wageing along the top and bottom.

  15. I kind of feel like now is the time to maybe buy Rubles. Trump is president and will not support Ukraine so I’m not sure how much longer Ukraine can hold out. Once the war is over things will settle down and you’d assume the Ruble will start gaining some value

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