The 15 fastest money printers
Every bar shows how many times a currency’s M2 money supply grew in 20 years, counted in its own units. A bar at 50x means fifty units of money now exist for every one back then. Hover a bar for the exact figure.
Zimbabwe is missing on purpose. Its supply grew 13,702x in 20 years, and its bar would be 26 times wider than this whole chart.
For contrast: the US dollar grew 3.3x and the Swiss franc 2.0x over the same 20 years.
20-year M2 growth, top 15 of 138 tracked currencies
How many times the money supply multiplied, in local units
Source: central-bank and statistics feeds per currency (FRED, ECB, IMF, World Bank, OECD) via the public money2069 API, refreshed daily. Growth is measured in each currency’s own units, so exchange rates play no part.
See the numbers
| # | Currency | 20y growth |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zimbabwe (ZWL) · off the chart | 13,702x |
| 2 | Sudan (SDG) | 533x |
| 3 | DR Congo (CDF) | 491x |
| 4 | Somalia (SOS) | 483x |
| 5 | Laos (LAK) | 480x |
| 6 | Argentina (ARS) | 417x |
| 7 | Belarus (BYN) | 141x |
| 8 | Iran (IRR) | 125x |
| 9 | Ghana (GHS) | 105x |
| 10 | Venezuela (VES) | 96.3x |
| 11 | Türkiye (TRY) | 84.4x |
| 12 | Tajikistan (TJS) | 74.1x |
| 13 | Myanmar (MMK) | 65.6x |
| 14 | Cambodia (KHR) | 48.4x |
| 15 | Vietnam (VND) | 46.1x |
| 16 | Angola (AOA) | 38.8x |