Rhodesia Statistics
Extracts from the Rhodesian Central Statistics Office Monthly Digests.
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Snapshot of the Rhodesian Dollar
Many of the pages on this site quote values in Rhodesian dollars. To get an idea of what these figures would be in present day money, some 50 years on, readers should multiply the quoted figures by about 20. (using an inflator based on either earnings or GDP per capita.)
It may also be helpful to know what the Rhodesian dollar would buy about 50 years ago in terms of some of the leading foreign currencies.
Rhodesia decimalised its currency based on two dollars per pound so that one dollar was equal to £0,50.
Here are the buying rates as at 12 December 1973.
South African rand 1,197
American dollars 1,69
Canadian dollars 1,69
British pounds 0,7308
French francs 7,69
German marks 4,46
Portuguese escudos 42,75
Swiss franc 5,38
Italian lira 1028