ArmInfo. Gross international reserves for 2016 increased by 24.2% to $ 2.204.2 billion. According to the Central Bank of Armenia, in the structure of reserves $ 1.579.4 billion is external assets in hard currency, which have undergone annual growth by 34.4%.
The SDR's share in the IMF was $ 3.5 million, an increase by 21.8% over the year. Only for the IV quarter gross international reserves increased by 22.2%, and the share of SDR in the IMF almost 9 times. Before that, gross international reserves in the third quarter increased by 12.5%, while the share of SDR in the IMF decreased 14 times, which was preceded by a 3.6% decline in gross international reserves in the second quarter and 2.4 times the SDR's share in the IMF, after the decline in international reserves in the I quarter by 8.4% and the growth of the share of SDR in the IMF in 4.8 times.
In January-February 2017, gross international reserves fell by 7.9% (against a decline of 5.3% in January- February 2016), to $ 2.026 billion, while the share of SDR in the IMF decreased by 17.5 times (against a decline in almost 3 times in January-February 2016) to $ 0.2 million. On an annual basis (in the same period of 2016) gross international reserves increased by 20.5%, while the share of SDR in the IMF declined 5.5 times.
A year earlier, in 2015, Armenia's gross international reserves increased by 19.2% to $ 1.775 billion, in the structure of which external assets in hard currency increased by 27.6% to $ 1.175 billion, while the share of SDR in the IMF decreased by 53.2% to $ 2.9 million. In 2014, Armenia's gross international reserves decreased by 33.9% to $ 1.489 billion, in the structure of which external assets decreased by 42.7% to $ 920.9 million, while the share of SDR in the IMF increased 3.3-fold to $ 6.2 million
The share of bank gold in Armenia's gross international reserves was zeroed in December 2003.