The two biggest global reserve currencies (USD and EURO) and their influence worldwide

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  1. I used to live and work in SE Asia, having dollars while traveling could be used anywhere, more than the local currency, while not official you could easily colour in most of this map green, África as well.

    Having Euros was pointless, everyone wanted USD

  2. Terrible graphic with no real information.

    What percent of corporate debt is done in USD?

    What percent of global trade is done in USD?

  3. The guilder used in the Dutch islands of St Maarten, Curacao and Aruba is pegged to the US dollar, in the rest of the Dutch Caribbean the US dollar is the official currency.

  4. the maps literally useless, the picture should instead be how many countries use the dollar and euro as a second currency, what percentage of global trade uses the euro and dollar and what percentage of banks use the dollar or euro. All this graph does is make the euro look bigger than what it is, the dollar exerts more than double the influence of the euro though

  5. Cambodia is missed out for daily use of $. Actually the cambodian national currency Riel is used side-by-side with US-$.

  6. This really doesn’t tell you anything about currency influence.

    % of global transactions denominated in X currency & % of reserves in X currency is far more important.

  7. i think this is inaccurate as many many african countries accept usd be it the legal currency or not

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