In May 2020, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) country report urged Ethiopia to accelerate the birr depreciation. The second and current Birr has been the official currency of Ethiopia since the nineteen forties. Although the first Birr dates back as far as the early nineties, the coins used in Ethiopia were Maria Theresa thalers and Menelik II talari. The Ethiopian Birr is the second most used currency in Africa after Nigeria’s Naira. The National Bank of Ethiopia and formerly the Bank of Abyssinia is the central bank.
It has been in service since the Nineteen-Thirties. The Ethiopian currency is called Ethiopian Birr. – Black market exchange is illegal in Ethiopia therefore its advisable to use legal channels to exchange foreign currency. Black market exchange rate is 68.00 – 82.00 birr depending on location. – Holiday season () Dollar official exchange rate 52.26 birr.
