How much U.S. paper currency is in circulation?
Money hard Data from 2024
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The answer
$2,300,000,000,000
Roughly $2.3T.
There is about $2.3 trillion of physical U.S. currency in circulation, roughly $7,000 for every American. Most of it is in $100 bills, and the Federal Reserve estimates that well over half of all U.S. paper money is held outside the United States.
Where this number comes from
| Source | U.S. Federal Reserve |
|---|---|
| Figure refers to | 2024 |
| Last checked | |
| Unit | dollars |
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