Central Bank of Iraq Exchange Rate History, 2009–2026: Official USD/IQD Rates

For most of the last 17 years the Central Bank of Iraq's official dollar rate has not moved at all. It sat at 1,170 dinars from 2009 to 2012 and has changed only seven times since. Three of those changes were large: December 2020, February 2023 and, most recently, 7 October 2026, when the published reference rate went from 1,310 to 1,510 dinars per dollar. This article lists every change using the bank's own published tables: 3,881 of them, all in the AllRatesToday central-bank archive.

Every change in the official dollar rate

Each row is the first table on which the bank published a new reference rate for the US dollar.

Dinars per US dollar, reference column. Source: Central Bank of Iraq daily exchange tables, via the AllRatesToday archive.

2009 to 2020: eleven years within two percent

From the start of the archive on 11 January 2009 until December 2020 the official rate never changed by more than 1.5% at a time. It was 1,170 dinars through 2012, 1,166 from January 2013, and then crept up in three small steps to 1,190 in May 2018, where it stayed for two and a half years.

20 December 2020: 1,460

The table for 17 December 2020 had 1,190. The next one, dated 20 December, had 1,460, a 22.7% devaluation and the largest single change in the series. The bank held 1,460 for just over two years.

8 February 2023: back to 1,310

On 8 February 2023 the bank revalued, moving the reference rate from 1,460 to 1,310. That level then held for three years and eight months, the longest unchanged stretch since the 1,170 years of 2009 to 2012.

7 October 2026: 1,510

The table for 6 October 2026 had 1,310. The table for 7 October had 1,510 in the reference column, 1,500 in the buying column and 1,520 in the selling column, the same 10-dinar spacing as before. Every table since has carried the same figures. The new level is consistent with other central banks' published tables: the Central Bank of Iran's table of 20 October 2026 prices the dollar at 1,832,816 rials and the dinar at 1,209.95 rials, which works out to about 1,515 dinars per dollar.

Year by year: the official rate at each year end

Dinars per US dollar, reference column. 2009 starts on 11 January; 2026 runs to 19 October. The archive has a few short gaps, mostly around holidays; the API returns the last table in force for any date in one.

What the table looked like on 19 October 2026

The bank's table covers 19 currencies. The reference column, in dinars per one unit:

Pulling any date from the archive

The latest table is free and needs no key:

GET https://allratestoday.com/api/open/central-bank/cbiq

A specific past date returns the table the bank published that day. If the bank published nothing that day, the response carries the most recent earlier table and says so, instead of guessing:

GET https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/central-bank/cbiq/2023-02-08?source=USD&target=IQD
Authorization: Bearer art_live_your_key

{
  "bank": "cbiq",
  "requested_date": "2023-02-08",
  "rate_date": "2023-02-08",
  "published_on_requested_date": true,
  "source": "USD",
  "target": "IQD",
  "rate": 1310,
  "rate_type": "reference",
  "derived": false,
  ...
}

Leave off the pair parameters and the same call returns all 19 currencies from that day's table.

Or with the npm SDK:

import { getRatesForDate } from 'central-bank-of-iraq-exchange-rate';

const day = await getRatesForDate('2023-02-08', { apiKey: process.env.ALLRATES_KEY });
const row = day.rates.find(r => r.base === 'USD' && r.quote === 'IQD');
console.log(day.rate_date, row.value); // 2023-02-08 1310

Historical dates and time series need a paid plan. The spoke page for the bank also has an Excel and CSV download for any date range from 2009, and the same archive is in the open central-bank exchange rates dataset under a CC BY-NC 4.0 licence for research and non-commercial use.

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