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What are India's forex reserves this week?

US$ 726.0 bn
9 Oct 2026▼ 8.6 vs 2 Oct 2026

RBI · released 16 Oct 2026 · next due by 23 Oct 2026

What are India's forex reserves this week?
PeriodValue (US$ bn)
9 Oct 2026726.0
2 Oct 2026734.6
25 Sep 2026747.6
18 Sep 2026765.9
11 Sep 2026780.8
4 Sep 2026785.7
28 Aug 2026740.8
21 Aug 2026729.3
14 Aug 2026716.9
7 Aug 2026707.0
31 Jul 2026692.9
24 Jul 2026682.4
17 Jul 2026676.2
10 Jul 2026675.2
3 Jul 2026674.2
26 Jun 2026666.9
19 Jun 2026672.6
12 Jun 2026671.6
5 Jun 2026681.6
29 May 2026682.3
22 May 2026681.4
15 May 2026688.9
8 May 2026697.0
1 May 2026690.7
24 Apr 2026698.5
17 Apr 2026703.3
10 Apr 2026700.9
3 Apr 2026697.1

Use in your answer

India's foreign exchange reserves were US$ 726.0 bn in the week to 9 Oct 2026, against US$ 734.6 bn a week earlier (2 Oct 2026), according to the RBI. Source: RBI, Weekly Statistical Supplement (Extract), Table 2: Foreign Exchange Reserves.

Cite as: Weekly Statistical Supplement (WSS), Table 2: Foreign Exchange Reserves (RBI), 9 Oct 2026

What this shows

  • Reserves were US$ 726.0 billion on 9 October 2026, US$ 8.6 billion lower than a week earlier, as published in the RBI's Weekly Statistical Supplement of 16 October 2026.
  • They were US$ 34.9 billion above end-March 2026 and US$ 28.2 billion above a year earlier; the highest week in this series was 4 September 2026, at US$ 785.7 billion.
  • Gold made up US$ 105.1 billion and foreign currency assets US$ 597.6 billion of the total on 9 October 2026.

What it is made of 9 Oct 2026

  • Foreign currency assets597.682.3%
  • Gold105.114.5%
  • SDRs18.52.6%
  • Reserve position in the IMF4.80.7%

Figures as published by RBI; shares are worked out from them.

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Weekly Statistical Supplement (WSS), Table 2: Foreign Exchange Reserves (RBI), 9 Oct 2026

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Source and method

Source
RBI, Weekly Statistical Supplement (Extract), Table 2: Foreign Exchange Reserves
Table
WSS Table 2, row 1 Total Reserves, US$ Mn., as on the previous Friday
Released
16 Oct 2026
Retrieved
18 Oct 2026
Next due
by 23 Oct 2026
Processing
US$ million divided by 1,000 to give US$ billion.
Licence
RBI website terms of use
What exactly is measured

India's total foreign exchange reserves in US dollars (foreign currency assets, gold, SDRs and the reserve position in the IMF) at the end of each week, as the RBI publishes them every Friday for the previous Friday in its Weekly Statistical Supplement. Weekly figures are provisional; the end-March figures in the RBI Handbook are the annual series.

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History: every published version

Each time the source changes this series we archive the full series as it stood, with an archived copy of the source, and never delete an old version. Each version has a permanent page you can cite. Recorded since 18 Oct 2026: 1 version.

No figure in this series has been revised since we began recording on 18 Oct 2026.

  1. 28 periods, latest 9 Oct 2026: US$ 726.0 bn · first snapshotArchived sourceb6975136793d
Release notes (1)
  • US$ 726.0 bn9 Oct 2026 (Weekly Statistical Supplement of 16 Oct 2026)

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