Currency – Currency symbol – Currency codes of countries around the world

There are a total of 164 types of national currencies in the world.

Although the number of independent states is 197, plus dozens of dependent territories. The reason is that some countries do not have their own currencies and use foreign currencies as the main currencies.

Therefore, the Euro is used as the main currency in 35 countries and territories around the globe. The US Dollar is used in 10 countries outside and in the US. West African CFA Franc – used in 8 countries and Central African CFA Franc – used in 6 African countries. The East Caribbean Dollar is mainly used in 6 Caribbean countries. The most traded currency in the world is the US dollar with about 47% of the global payment market share and 87% of daily turnover in the foreign exchange market. Second place is the Euro with about 23% of daily foreign exchange transactions and 28% of payments via international banks.

List of currencies currently circulating in the respective countries:

Currency – a three-letter symbol for the currency set according to ISO 4217. The letter code used in banking operations and international transactions, and abbreviated with the amount.

Symbols – global graphical symbols used when abbreviation of a currency along with money.

Electronic code – a three-digit code for money that conforms to ISO 3166-1 numeric. Usually, the currency code will match the country code. The electronic code was developed to meet the needs of countries that do not use the latin alphabet.

Name – the official name of the currency.

Country – the country that owns the currency and the image of the nation’s flag.