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Average Exchange Rates for 2009

RC4152 Rev. 10

This table provides the 2009 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)

0.3037

Morocco (dirham)

0.1409

Australia (dollar)

0.8969

Netherlands Antilles (guilder)

0.6474

Bahamas (dollar)

1.1420

New Zealand (dollar)

0.7193

Brazil (new real)

0.5738

Norway (krone)

0.1815

Burma [Myanmar] (kyat)

0.2065

Pakistan (rupee)

0.01402

Chile (peso)

0.002043

Panama (balboa)

1.1420

China (renminbi)

0.1672

Peru (new sol)

0.3788

Colombia (peso)

0.000531

Philippines (peso)

0.02401

Croatia (kuna)

0.2160

Poland (zloty)

0.3667

Czech Republic (koruna)

0.05998

Romania (nouveau leu)

0.3741

Denmark (krone)

0.2129

Russia (rouble)

0.03595

East Caribbean (dollar)

0.4293

Serbia (dinar)

0.01687

European Monetary Union (euro)

1.5855

Singapore (dollar)

0.7842

Fiji (dollar)

0.5887

South Africa (rand)

0.1362

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

0.002417

South Korea (won)

0.000895

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

0.01329

Sri Lanka (rupee)

0.009932

Ghana (cedi)

0.7999

Sweden (krona)

0.1493

Guatemala (quetzal)

0.1405

Switzerland (franc)

1.0505

Honduras (lempira)

0.06045

Taiwan (new Taiwan dollar)

0.03453

Hong Kong (dollar)

0.147321

Thailand (baht)

0.03322

Hungary (forint)

0.005657

Trinidad and Tobago (dollar)

0.1832

Iceland (krona)

0.009261

Tunisia (dinar)

0.8448

India (rupee)

0.02360

Turkey (lira)

0.7333

Indonesia (rupiah)

0.000110

United Arab Emirates (dirham)

0.3109

Israel (shekel)

0.2903

United Kingdom (pound)

1.78035578

Jamaica (dollar)

0.01306

United States (dollar)

1.14197729

Japan (yen)

0.01220

Venezuela (bolivar)

0.5318

Malaysia (ringgit)

0.3236

Vietnam (dong)

0.000064

Mexico (peso)

0.08448

 

 

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 × 0.1493 exchange rate for Sweden = 5,972.00 Canadian dollars