{"id":272406,"date":"2026-04-21T14:20:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T10:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/?p=272406"},"modified":"2026-04-21T14:20:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T10:20:38","slug":"armenias-gross-reserves-rose-to-5-5-billion-in-march-providing-4-1-months-of-import-coverage-wb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2026\/04\/21\/272406\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenia&#8217;s gross reserves rose to $5.5 billion in March, providing 4.1 months of import coverage \u2013 WB"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>YEREVAN, April 21. \/ARKA\/.<\/strong> Gross reserves in Armenia increased to $5.5 billion at the end of March, equivalent to 4.1 months of import coverage, according to the World Bank&#8217;s &#8220;Armenia Monthly Economic Update \u2013 March 2026.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Central Bank of Armenia, Armenia&#8217;s gross international reserves as of March 2026 amounted to $5,542.4 million, compared to $5,520.7 million in February 2026 and $3,926.1 million in March 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The WB study notes that the Armenian dram remained stable against the US dollar (MoM) in March and strengthened by 2.3% against the euro (MoM). &#8220;In March, the dram strengthened by 3.9% year-on-year against the US dollar, while it weakened by 2.8% and 2.4% year-on-year against the euro and the Russian ruble, respectively,&#8221; the bank&#8217;s analysts note.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Armstat, the average settlement exchange rate for the Armenian dram to the US dollar was 377.4 drams in March 2026, compared to 392.8 drams in March 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gross reserves in Armenia increased to $5.5 billion at the end of March, equivalent to 4.1 months of import coverage, according to the World Bank&#8217;s &#8220;Armenia Monthly Economic Update \u2013 March 2026.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":156984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[12139,9216],"tags":[17467,12318],"class_list":{"0":"post-272406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy-en","8":"category-news","9":"tag-month","10":"tag-wb"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272407,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272406\/revisions\/272407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}