List of currencies in North America

There are 25 currencies currently in official use in North America. All de jure present currencies in North America are listed here, including currencies from countries which are not sovereign states or dependencies.

A commonly used North American currency is the United States dollar.^[1] It is the world's largest reserve currency,^[2] the resulting economic value of which benefits the U.S. at over $100 billion annually.^[3] However, its position as a reserve currency damages American exporters because this increases the value of the United States dollar.^[4][5] The United States dollar is also "standard" in international commodity markets.^[1] In the phenomenon known as 'dollarization', the U.S. dollar has been adopted as the official currency of several other countries.^[6] However, semi-dollarization also exists in a few other countries where the U.S. dollar is recognised as legal tender alongside another currency, and unofficial dollarization exists in many areas where the U.S. dollar is widely used and accepted-although it is not recognised as legal tender.^[6]

The East Caribbean dollar is the most used currency by the number of countries in North America utilising it. The East Caribbean dollar is pegged to the United States dollar, and has been for over 35 years since 1976,^[7] having previously been pegged to the pound sterling.^[7] In 1965, the East Caribbean Currency Authority was established (coming after the British Caribbean Currency Board), to distribute currency, but The Bahamas withdrew from the organisation to create its own bank.^[8] The East Caribbean dollar is used in all seven member countries of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) and Anguilla (a British overseas territory); the only OECS member using a different currency is the British Virgin Islands,^[9] a British overseas territory where the U.S. dollar is the official currency.^[10][11] Cuba and Panama both use two currencies. Cuba is attempting to gradually phase out the Cuban convertible peso, unifying the two in the Cuban peso.^[12] Although there is no confirmed timescale for the reform, whilst quoting Cuban economists, Reuters gave an estimation of 18 months (from October 2013).^[12] Panama uses the United States dollar informally,^[13] but additionally uses the Panamanian balboa as legal tender.^[14]

North American sovereign state currencies

List of all North American sovereign state currencies
Present currency	Country or dependency (administrating country)	Currency sign	Fractional unit	Ref(s)
Aruban florin	Aruba (Netherlands)	ƒ	Cent	[15] [16] [17]
Bahamian dollar	The Bahamas	$	Cent	[18]
Barbadian dollar (also called Bajan dollar)	Barbados	$	Cent	[19] [20]
Bermudian dollar	Bermuda (United Kingdom)	$	Cent	[21]
Belize dollar	Belize	$	Cent	[22] [23]
Canadian dollar	Canada	$	Cent	[24] [25]
Cayman Islands dollar	Cayman Islands (United Kingdom)	$	Cent	[26]
Colombian peso	Colombia[lower-alpha 1]	$	Cent	[27] [28]
Costa Rican colón	Costa Rica	₡	Céntimo	[29] [30]
Cuban convertible peso	Cuba	₱	Centavo	[31] [32] [33]
Cuban peso	Cuba	CUC$	Cent	[34]
Danish krone	Greenland (Denmark)	kr	Øre	[35]
Dominican peso	Dominican Republic	RD$	Centavo	[36] [37]
East Caribbean dollar	Antigua and Barbuda	$	Cent	[38]
	Dominica			[38]
	Grenada			[39]
	Montserrat (United Kingdom)			[38]
	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines			[38]
	Saint Kitts and Nevis			[40]
	Saint Lucia			[41]
Euro	France[lower-alpha 2]	€	Cent	[42]
Guatemalan quetzal	Guatemala	Q	Centavo	[43] [44]
Haitian gourde	Haiti	G	Centime	[45] [46]
Honduran lempira	Honduras	L	Centavo	[47] [48]
Jamaican dollar	Jamaica	J$	Cent	[49] [50]
Mexican peso	Mexico	$	Cent	[51] [52]
Netherlands Antillean guilder	Curaçao (Netherlands)	ƒ	Cent	[53] [54] [55]
	Sint Maarten (Netherlands)			[56]
Nicaraguan córdoba	Nicaragua	C$	Centavo	[57] [58]
Panamanian balboa	Panama	B/.	Centésimo	[14] [59]
Trinidad and Tobago dollar	Trinidad and Tobago	TT$	Cent	[60] [61]
United States dollar	Bonaire (Netherlands)	$	Cent	[62] [63] [64]
	British Virgin Islands (United Kingdom)			[62]
	El Salvador			[62]
	Panama			[62]
	Puerto Rico (United States)			[62]
	Saba (Netherlands)			[65]
	Sint Eustatius (Netherlands)			[66]
	Turks and Caicos Islands (United Kingdom)			[67]
	United States			[62]
	United States Virgin Islands (United States)			[62]

See also

• List of circulating currencies

Notes

References