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China now pays the world mostly in yuan

Currency shares of China's non-bank outbound cross-border payments, %, SAFE data, 2010–2025.

0.5% → 53.9%

The yuan's share of China's outbound payments: one month (Jan 2010) vs all of 2025.

80.7% → 40.5%

The dollar's share of the same payments halved. The yuan has led since 2023.

49.5%

Yuan share of China's inbound receipts in 2025, vs 46.7% for the dollar: the lead now holds both ways.

Source State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE), non-bank cross-border payments by currency, as compiled by FXC Intelligence and Bloomberg ·Data 2025 ·Fact
the numbers
China now pays the world mostly in yuan. Source: State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE), non-bank cross-border payments by currency, as compiled by FXC Intelligence and Bloomberg, 2025.
YearChinese yuan (RMB) (%)US dollar (%)
20100.580.7
201522.066.0
202348.545.2
202452.241.7
202553.940.5
source notes & method

Secondary sourcing quoting SAFE monthly data. Full annual series could not be verified, so points are the clearest published snapshots of outbound (payment) shares: 2010 = January 2010, 2015 = January 2015 (FXC Intelligence, Jun 2023 and Jan 2025), 2023 = April 2023 (FXC), 2024 = March 2024 (FXC), 2025 = full year (FXC, Jan 2026). Inbound 2025: yuan 49.5%, dollar 46.7%. H1 2026 combined share 52.9% from SAFE press release (17 Jul 2026). Bloomberg (Apr 2023) reports the combined yuan share at nearly zero and dollar 83% in 2010.

Published 30 Sep 2026

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