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At the end of 2000, the black market rate was 435 kyat to the dollar. ^ Unofficial exchange rates ranged in 2004 from 815 kyat/U.S. dollar to nearly 970 kyat/U.S. dollar, and by end of year 2005, the unofficial exchange rate was 1,075 kyat/U.S. dollar; data shown for 2005 and before are official exchange rates.

The United States dollar ( symbol: $; code: USD; also abbreviated US$ or U.S. Dollar, to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official currency of the United States and several other countries.

Currency for international travel and cross-border payments is predominantly purchased from banks, foreign exchange brokerages and various forms of bureaux de change. [citation needed] These retail outlets source currency from the interbank markets, which are valued by the Bank for International Settlements at US$5.3 trillion per day.

The value of one current peso is 10,000,000,000,000 (trillion) pesos moneda nacional (m$n), the currency in use from 1881 to 1969. It's also equal, as of March 2022, to 490 trillion 1914 pesos with the U.S. dollar as reference – an average annual depreciation relative to the dollar of 27% (i.e. an annual increase of the value of the dollar of 37%).