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BRL against the US dollar

How the Brazilian Real has changed against the US dollar over 1, 5 and 10 years, and what happened to savings kept in BRL.

Daily closes up to 2026-10-07 (UTC) · 50 currencies

Exchange rate5.02 BRL1 USD · 2026-10-07
1 year+6.7%BRL value in USD
5 years+9.9%BRL value in USD
10 years−35.7%BRL value in USD

What happened to my money?

Start with the same amount, converted on the same date. Results are expressed in US dollars.

1 year ago 3 years ago 5 years ago 8 years ago

1,000 BRL from 2018-01-01 was worth $301.89. Kept as cash it is worth $199.24 today, in dollars it stays $301.89, and in Bitcoin it is $1,880.

  • Kept in local currency $199.24 −34.0%
  • Converted to USD $301.89 0.0%
  • Converted to Bitcoinbest $1,880 +522.7%

9.4× more than keeping local cash: converted to bitcoin.

Nominal comparison. No inflation, interest, fees or taxes. Not an investment recommendation. FX fixings 2018-01-01 → 2026-10-07, BTC 2018-01-01 → 2026-10-07.

The devaluation race

Lower means greater loss in dollar value. USD is the 0% reference. No inflation adjustment.

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Currency ranking

Change in dollar value. Sorted by the selected period, biggest losses first.

# BTC to record
1 TRYTurkish Lira −15.2% −82.0% −93.8% −21.2%
2 EGPEgyptian Pound −9.2% −70.0% — −26.7%
3 INRIndian Rupee −8.3% −22.6% −31.1% −27.1%
4 RONRomanian Leu −8.2% −10.4% −15.4% −26.6%
5 UAHUkrainian Hryvnia −7.9% −41.4% −42.5% −27.3%
6 PHPPhilippine Peso −7.5% −19.6% −22.9% −27.9%
7 IDRIndonesian Rupiah −7.3% −20.5% −27.6% −27.7%
8 PLNPolish Zloty −6.3% +1.6% −1.8% −28.1%
9 ARSArgentine Peso −5.8% −93.5% −99.0% −29.1%
10 SEKSwedish Krona −5.5% −12.1% −13.4% −29.2%
11 TWDNew Taiwan Dollar −4.1% −12.0% −1.2% −29.8%
12 RUBRussian Ruble −4.0% −16.0% −27.2% −35.8%
13 CHFSwiss Franc −3.8% +11.6% +17.7% −30.1%
14 CZKCzech Koruna −3.7% +1.0% +11.1% −29.9%
15 DKKDanish Krone −3.7% −3.5% −0.1% −30.1%
16 EUREuro −3.6% −3.0% +0.4% −30.2%
17 JPYJapanese Yen −3.5% −29.2% −34.5% −30.0%
18 THBThai Baht −3.4% +0.7% +3.9% −30.8%
19 NZDNew Zealand Dollar −2.5% −19.2% −21.3% −30.4%
20 CADCanadian Dollar −2.1% −12.0% −6.7% −31.7%
21 CLPChilean Peso −1.9% −17.0% −31.5% −32.0%
22 GBPBritish Pound −1.3% −2.9% +6.4% −31.9%
23 BDTBangladeshi Taka −1.1% −30.6% −36.3% −32.2%
24 HKDHong Kong Dollarpeg −0.8% −0.8% −1.1% −32.6%
25 ISKIcelandic Króna −0.4% +5.5% −6.9% −32.5%
26 KESKenyan Shilling −0.4% −14.7% −22.0% −32.7%
27 UYUUruguayan Peso −0.3% +7.5% −30.0% −32.6%
28 AZNAzerbaijani Manat 0.0% −0.1% −5.0% −33.2%
29 USDUS Dollar 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% −33.2%
30 AEDUnited Arab Emirates Dirhampeg 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% −33.2%
31 SARSaudi Riyalpeg 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% −33.2%
32 PENPeruvian Sol +0.1% +18.9% −1.1% −34.2%
33 SGDSingapore Dollar +1.2% +6.2% +7.5% −33.7%
34 VNDVietnamese Dong +1.7% −12.5% −14.1% −34.1%
35 PKRPakistani Rupee +2.3% −38.2% −62.2% −34.4%
36 MXNMexican Peso +2.5% +15.1% +7.5% −34.9%
37 MYRMalaysian Ringgit +3.2% +2.3% +1.5% −35.2%
38 HUFHungarian Forint +3.6% −5.0% −16.5% −35.2%
39 ZARSouth African Rand +3.7% −10.0% −16.3% −35.9%
40 NOKNorwegian Krone +4.4% −10.3% −15.2% −36.5%
41 GELGeorgian Lari +4.7% +20.8% −9.9% −36.2%
42 AMDArmenian Dram +5.3% +32.3% +30.9% −36.3%
43 GHSGhanaian Cedi +5.8% −48.8% −66.3% −38.6%
44 KRWSouth Korean Won +5.9% −10.9% −16.7% −36.5%
45 AUDAustralian Dollar +6.1% −4.7% −7.9% −36.5%
46 CNYChinese Yuan +6.2% −3.8% −0.5% −37.0%
47 BRLyoursBrazilian Real +6.7% +9.9% −35.7% −37.6%
48 NGNNigerian Naira +10.6% −69.1% −76.3% −41.4%
49 COPColombian Peso +19.7% +16.5% −9.9% −45.5%
50 KZTKazakhstani Tenge +21.0% −4.8% −25.8% −45.0%

Where is Bitcoin at a record right now?

One Bitcoin, different records. Compare the distance to each currency’s highest daily close.

How to read these numbers

BTC price in a currency
BTC/XXX = BTC/USD × USD/XXX

BTC/USDT spot is used as a USD proxy. Earlier Bitcoin history is not included. maximum since 2017-08-17.

Currency loss
Δ = (FX₀ / FX₁ − 1) × 100%

Nominal comparison. No inflation, interest, fees or taxes. Not an investment recommendation.

Exchange rates

Reference FX rates; provider does not identify every fixing as an official central-bank close. Parallel market rates may differ. Periods crossing unreliable historical fixings are excluded. Weekends and short provider holidays (up to three weekdays) use the last known reference rate; longer outages are not filled.

Sources

fxapi.app · Binance BTCUSDT · Natural Earth. TRY 2005 (1 000 000 : 1), GHS 2007 (10 000 : 1). EGP: 2016-11-03 → 2017-03-16 IMF.

Nominal values are not purchasing power

The results do not adjust for inflation, banking spreads, commissions, taxes, deposit interest or restrictions on moving money. A dollar amount that is unchanged can still buy fewer goods over time. A Bitcoin outcome can be negative, and a favorable historical interval does not protect a future holder from losses. Fiat currencies also serve everyday purposes such as paying wages, taxes and local expenses, which the calculator does not evaluate. The results should be read as nominal valuation examples rather than a ranking of suitable savings products. Gold is excluded because the existing futures proxy does not represent an unqualified physical-gold holding.

Reference rates and coverage limitations

FX observations come from the already integrated fxapi.app provider. Its documentation does not identify every historical fixing as an official central-bank close, so the page labels them reference rates. Parallel market prices, restrictions and executable bank quotes may differ, particularly in currencies with multiple exchange-rate regimes. Pegged currencies remain in the comparison and have visible labels. A denomination adjustment is applied only when a source still uses old monetary units; already normalized observations are not adjusted again. No missing business observation is silently invented. Shared calculations preserve their data date, and a new calculation is required to compare a later endpoint.

Questions and answers

Why can Bitcoin reach a record outside USD?

Bitcoin has no single price that is identical in every monetary unit. A quoted price in a local currency combines the dollar value of Bitcoin with the number of local currency units required to buy one dollar. These two components can move in opposite directions. Bitcoin can fall in dollars while rising in a currency that weakens more quickly. The map makes that arithmetic visible without implying that a record is a trading signal. A local record describes a historical comparison in that currency; it does not establish future returns or explain every change in the exchange rate.

What does a daily record mean here?

The highest value shown here is the maximum of completed daily Bitcoin prices multiplied by the reference exchange rate recorded for the same calendar date. Intraday peaks are outside this calculation. Bitcoin history begins in August 2017, so these figures are explicitly maxima since that date, rather than claims about the entire life of Bitcoin. The price series is Binance spot BTC/USDT, used as a proxy for dollars. USDT can diverge from USD. Small differences from another exchange, daily fixing or chart are therefore possible, especially near a previous high.

How is currency devaluation calculated?

An exchange rate that rises from ten local units per dollar to twenty does not mean that the local currency lost one hundred percent. One local unit previously bought one tenth of a dollar and now buys one twentieth: a fifty percent loss. The race uses this inverse relationship and starts each selected currency at zero percent. Positive values indicate appreciation against USD; negative values indicate depreciation. The table uses completed one, five and ten calendar-year periods. A custom start date changes the race baseline. Comparisons use the same end date and do not measure domestic consumer prices.

How are equal starting amounts compared?

The calculator starts with the amount entered in the selected local currency. It converts that amount to dollars using the starting reference rate, then compares keeping local cash, keeping those dollars and converting the dollars into Bitcoin. All three results are displayed in dollars at the end date. Dollar cash has no interest in this scenario, while local cash retains its nominal number of units. Bitcoin holdings are valued using the ratio of ending and starting prices. This is a mathematical comparison of historical scenarios, without assumptions about whether a person could execute every conversion at the displayed reference price.