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Currency 1 PKR in PKR
American Dollar 0.0125392 79.7498
Argentine Peso 0.044454 22.4951
Australian Dollar 0.0189746 52.7021
Botswana Pula 0.0995176 10.0485
Brazilian Real 0.0284922 35.0973
British Pound 0.00864583 115.663
Brunei dollar 0.0189079 52.888
Bulgarian Lev 0.0191252 52.2871
Canadian Dollar 0.0154825 64.5889
Chilean Peso 7.25117 0.137909
Chinese Yuan 0.0856867 11.6704
Colombian Peso 31.495 0.0317511
Croatian Kuna 0.0727095 13.7534
Danish Krone 0.0728747 13.7222
Estonian Kroon 0.153004 6.5358
Euro 0.0097787 102.263
Hong Kong Dollar 0.0972109 10.2869
Hungarian Forint 2.9162 0.342913
Iceland Krona 1.42504 0.701733
Indian Rupee 0.607208 1.64688
Israeli New Shekel 0.0506662 19.737
Japanese Yen 1.14988 0.869659
Kazakhstani Tenge 1.86069 0.537434
Kuwaiti Dinar 0.00363261 275.284
Latvian Lat 0.00691451 144.623
Libyan Dinar 0.0242304 41.2705
Lithuanian Litas 0.0337638 29.6175
Malaysian Ringgit 0.0451981 22.1248
Maltese Lira 0.0374541 26.6993
Mexican Peso 0.179875 5.55941
Nepalese Rupee 0.979313 1.02112
New Zealand Dollar 0.0237866 42.0404
Norwegian Kroner 0.0852604 11.7288
Omani Rial 0.00482133 207.412
Qatari Rial 0.0456427 21.9093
Romanian Leu 0.0420533 23.7794
Russian Ruble 0.43456 2.30118
Saudi Riyal 0.0470221 21.2666
Singapore Dollar 0.0189061 52.8929
South African Rand 0.125016 7.99899
South Korean Won 17.6145 0.0567715
Sri Lanka Rupee 1.43027 0.699167
Swedish Krona 0.105077 9.51684
Swiss Franc 0.0146005 68.4906
Taiwan Dollar 0.42689 2.34252
Thai Baht 0.439817 2.27367
Trinidad Dollar 0.0734685 13.6113
Turkish Lira 0.0206624 48.3972
Venezuelan Bolivar 0.0269257 37.1392
Currency Name 1 USD =
U.A.E. Dirham 3.672492
Argentine Peso 3.167963
Bahrain Dinar 0.375999
Brazilian Real 2.260016
Canadian Dollar 1.243299
Chilean Peso 593.017455
Colombian Peso 2,520.059814
Czech Koruna 22.285002
Euro 0.779848
Hungarian Forint 231.329922
Israeli New Sheqel 4.045001
Iranian Rial 9,561.453507
Japanese Yen 90.999738
Kuwaiti Dinar 0.289700
Libyan Dinar 1.295771
Mauritian Rupee 33.311160
Malaysian Ringgit 3.615990
Nepalese Rupee 78.100168
Omani Rial 0.384499
Polish Zloty 3.594901
Saudi Arabian Riyal 3.750002
Singapore Dollar 1.507896
Thai Baht 35.150910
U.S. Dollar 1.000000
South African Rand 9.964997
The currency in the Philippines is the Philippine peso (or piso), divided into 100 centavos (or centimo). Currently (January 2002), the U.S. dollar is worth about 52 pesos, and the euro about 46 pesos. Current are coins of 1, 5, 10, and 25 centavos and 1 and 5 pesos, and bank notes of 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 500 and 1000 pesos. The 5 peso note is no longer printed, but still legal tender. The coins can be seen on a separate page.
A few years ago, all old Philippine currency was replaced by new banknotes and coins, which are now the only ones valid. Older notes cannot be used anymore. If you are interested in what the old notes looked like, just have a look at our old Philippine money page
The name for the Indonesia Rupiah was adopted from the Indian form of currency, the Rupee. Prior to the Rupiah, Indonesia used the Dutch guilder from 1610 to 1817, when the Dutch East Indies guilder was introduced. The Rupiah was first introduced during the World War II Japanese occupation. Following the end of the war, the Java Bank briefly issued its own Java Rupiah as a replacement.
Preceding their independence, the Indonesian Rupiah was introduced on November 2, 1949 as the new national currency. The Riau islands and the Indonesian half of New Guinea (Irian Barat) had their own variants of the Rupiah, but these were incorporated into the national Rupiah in 1964 and 1971. Devalued by inflation, in 1965 the New Rupiah was introduced at a rate of 1000 old Rupiah to one new Rupiah.
More recently, the Asian economic crisis of 1997-1998 depreciated the Rupiah's value by 35% in a matter of one night and was a major factor in the overthrow of President Suharto's government. The Rupiah had traded at about 2000-3000 Rupiah per 1 US dollar, but reached a low of 16,800 Rupiah per dollar in June 1998.
The Rupiah is a freely convertible currency, but remains plagued by high inflation. As of early June 2005, 1 US dollar is worth approximately 9,560 Rupiah.
The official currency of Pakistan is the rupee (PKR). One rupee consists of 100 paise (singular = paisa). When Pakistan began printing its own currency in 1948, they used Indian currency with "Pakistan" stamped on it for the first few months until enough of the Pakistani notes were in circulation. Until 1961, the rupee was divided into 16 Annas before being changed to 100 paise. From the time of the rupee's introduction until the turn of the 21 st century, it steadily declined in value against the U.S. dollar. Then, Pakistan's large current-account surplus drove up the value of the rupee until the government lowered interest rates and bought dollars to stabilize the currencies value and maintain its export competitiveness
The Indian Rupee is the original official currency of India. The English translation of "Rupee" is "silver," and the name exists because it was previously a silver coin. This very fact had severe consequences in the 19th century, when the strongest economies in the world were on the gold standard. The discovery of vast quantities of silver in the U.S. and various European colonies resulted in a decline in the relative value of silver to gold. Suddenly, the standard currency of India could not buy as much from the outside world. Such circumstances led to what is now referred to as "the fall of the Rupee."
During the period 1950-1951 until mid-December 1973, India followed an exchange rate regime with the Rupee linked to the Pound Sterling, except for the devaluations in 1966 and 1971. When the Pound Sterling floated on June 23, 1972, the Rupee's link to the British unit was maintained-thus, paralleling the Pound's depreciation and de facto devaluation.
In 1975, the Rupee's ties to the Pound Sterling were disengaged. India established a float exchange regime, with the Rupee's effective rate placed on a controlled, floating basis and linked to a "basket of currencies" of India's major trading partners. More recently, the Indian Rupee has been depreciating in step formation, but roughly in line with the fall in its Purchasing Power Parity since the early 1980s. While the PPP was 15 around 1982, the actual exchange rate was 9.30 per US dollar. After the devaluation, the Rupee underwent the change from a controlled regime to a "Managed" or "Dirty" float regime, where the market supposedly determines the exchange rate. In mid 2005, the actual rate was near 43.60
