Monthly Economic and Social Indicators

HISTORICAL SUPPLEMENT 1999

6.4b Exchange Rates Trade weighted index (a)
		Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun
1969-70												100.0	99.6
1970-71		99.4	99.1	99.2	99.2	99.2	99.3	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	99.8	99.8
1971-72		99.7	99.3	99.8	99.4	99.3	99.8	98.8	98.1	97.8	97.9	97.9	98.5
1972-73		98.6	98.5	98.9	99.8	99.4	106.5	105.9	110.7	110.5	110.5	109.1	107.9
1973-74		107.9	108.9	113.9	113.8	117.3	118.1	121.3	119.0	115.5	116.0	117.0	117.3
1974-75		118.8	120.5	105.3	105.3	105.3	105.3	105.3	105.3	105.3	105.3	105.3	105.3
1975-76		105.3	105.3	105.3	105.3	105.3	105.3	105.3	105.3	105.3	105.3	105.3	105.3
1976-77		105.3	105.3	105.3	105.3	86.9	92.2	92.2	92.5	92.5	92.5	92.5	92.5
1977-78		92.5	91.5	91.5	90.9	90.0	89.4	89.2	88.5	87.5	87.5	87.3	86.2
1978-79		84.7	83.7	83.6	82.2	83.2	82.7	82.8	82.4	82.3	82.8	83.1	83.1
1979-80		83.3	83.5	83.5	83.7	83.6	83.3	83.2	83.5	84.4	84.5	84.7	85.0
1980-81		85.5	85.8	85.8	86.2	86.8	87.1	87.5	88.2	88.8	89.5	90.8	92.9
1981-82		94.2	94.4	93.8	93.0	91.2	90.5	90.1	89.2	88.8	88.2	88.0	88.2
1982-83		86.1	84.1	83.8	83.9	83.5	83.4	83.6	82.4	76.1	76.2	77.6	77.7
1983-84		78.8	79.6	80.4	81.7	82.0	81.1	83.5	84.2	82.9	82.6	81.6	79.2
1984-85		78.7	80.1	80.3	82.0	83.5	81.3	80.8	72.3	69.2	64.2	64.8	65.0
1985-86		68.5	66.4	64.8	63.4	60.9	60.7	62.7	59.8	61.1	61.4	60.7	56.3
1986-87		49.3	50.3	51.9	54.0	54.3	55.0	52.8	54.1	55.4	54.5	55.8	56.6
1987-88		55.3	55.2	56.2	51.7	52.3	52.0	52.5	53.1	53.8	55.2	58.9	59.8
1988-89		61.0	61.8	60.0	61.1	63.7	63.2	66.7	59.6	62.2	60.0	58.8	59.4
1989-90		57.8	60.0	59.8	60.7	60.4	61.1	59.4	59.0	59.8	59.6	60.2	61.6
1990-91		60.4	61.4	61.6	57.2	56.9	57.3	57.5	57.9	59.7	60.2	58.5	59.7
1991-92		60.1	60.5	60.6	59.3	59.0	55.9	55.8	56.8	58.6	57.9	56.9	55.2
1992-93		54.7	51.6	51.7	51.9	51.8	52.4	51.6	52.7	52.9	52.3	49.4	49.5
1993-94		50.6	49.3	47.3	49.4	49.1	50.8	54.0	53.6	52.1	52.6	54.6	53.0
1994-95		53.9	53.9	53.4	53.1	55.5	56.2	54.5	52.9	50.7	49.6	48.5	48.4
1995-96		51.0	53.9	53.8	54.3	53.8	53.9	54.7	55.5	56.8	57.1	58.7	58.1
1996-97		56.5	57.9	58.5	58.6	59.9	59.4	58.8	59.3	60.5	60.7	58.0	56.9
1997-98		58.3	58.2	57.7	57.1	57.0	58.1	61.9	60.6	59.6	58.0	57.2	57.9
1998-99		57.3	53.4	54.5	54.2	55.6
(a) Trade weighted index of average value of Australian dollar vis-a-vis currencies of Australia's major trading partners at the end of the month. Base: May 1970 = 100.0. Source: Reserve Bank of Australia Bulletin, RBA

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