ARCHIVED - Average Exchange Rates for 2008

RC4152 Rev. 09

This table provides the 2008 average exchange rates for the following currencies. It will help you to convert the amounts in the Old Age Security Return of Income to Canadian dollars.

Country
(monetary unit)

Exchange rate

Country (monetary unit)

Exchange rate

Argentina (peso)

0.3319

Morocco (dirham)

0.1375

Australia (dollar)

0.9002

Netherlands Antilles (guilder)

0.5990

Bahamas (dollar)

1.0660

New Zealand (dollar)

0.7547

Brazil (new real)

0.5868

Norway (krone)

0.1900

Burma [Myanmar] (kyat)

0.1976

Pakistan (rupee)

0.01515

Chile (peso)

0.002057

Panama (balboa)

1.0660

China (renminbi)

0.1536

Peru (new sol)

0.3642

Colombia (peso)

0.000544

Philippines (peso)

0.02400

Croatia (kuna)

0.2160

Poland (zloty)

0.4456

Czech Republic (koruna)

0.06259

Romania (nouveau leu)

0.4241

Denmark (krone)

0.2093

Russia (rouble)

0.04285

East Caribbean (dollar)

0.4040

Serbia (dinar)

0.01918

European Monetary Union (euro)

1.5603

Singapore (dollar)

0.7525

Fiji (dollar)

0.6701

Slovakia (koruna)

0.04999

Communauté Financière Africaine (franc) C.F.A.

0.002379

South Africa (rand)

0.1299

Communauté Française du Pacifique (franc) C.F.P.

0.01308

South Korea (won)

0.000979

Ghana (cedi)

0.9865

Sri Lanka (rupee)

0.009836

Guatemala (quetzal)

0.1410

Sweden (krona)

0.1623

Honduras (lempira)

0.05641

Switzerland (franc)

0.9840

Hong Kong (dollar)

0.136931

Taiwan (new Taiwan dollar)

0.03377

Hungary (forint)

0.006215

Thailand (baht)

0.03229

Iceland (krona)

0.01264

Trinidad and Tobago (dollar)

0.1718

India (rupee)

0.02458

Tunisia (dinar)

0.8650

Indonesia (rupiah)

0.000111

Turkey (lira)

0.8207

Israel (shekel)

0.2974

United Arab Emirates (dirham)

0.2902

Jamaica (dollar)

0.01466

United Kingdom (pound)

1.96166905

Japan (yen)

0.01037

United States (dollar)

1.06601429

Malaysia (ringgit)

0.3195

Venezuela (bolivar)

0.4964

Mexico (peso)

0.09587

Vietnam (dong)

0.000065

Example

Mr. White is a resident of Sweden. He received 40,000 kronas in interest from a savings account at a bank in Sweden. Using the chart above, Mr. White has to do the following calculation to report his foreign income in Canadian dollars.

40,000 kronas × 0.1623 exchange rate for Sweden = 6,492.00 Canadian dollars

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