October 26, 2019 — This is a good time to gauge the rankings of the dollar and its rivals as major international currencies. The Bank for International Settlements came out in September with its triennial survey of turnover in the world’s foreign exchange markets. The IMF’s statistics on central bank holdings of foreign exchange reserves have gotten much more reliable lately, because China has joined in on reporting its holdings to the IMF (as Eswar Prasad explains). And SWIFT offers every month its numbers on use of major currencies in international payments.