Belize Currency

Find out the Belize currency exchange rate for your currency. Look at the following tables for at-a-glance comparison of Belize dollar (BZD) conversions.

 
Reef hole split in Caye Caulker, Belize.
(images courtesy of Belize Tourism Board)

There are tables of Belize Dollar conversions for exchange rates in countries in the following areas:

• Key Trading Partners
• All Countries

Belize Currency

The currency used in Belize is the Belize Dollar.

A quick look down the tables will allow you to compare currencies. The tables show you one column with the local currency value of one Belize Dollar (BZD) and one column with the value of one unit of the local currency in Belize Dollars.

Beach and palm trees in Belize

Key Trading Partners with Belize (Export and Import)

According the World Factbook, there were approximately $556 million (US Dollars) worth of exports from Belize in 2012, the majority of which consisted of sugar, bananas, citrus, clothing, fish products, molasses, wood, and crude oil.

Exports:
$555.8 million (2012 est.)
$603.3 million (2011 est.)
$475.7 million (2010 est.)
$383.9 million (2009 est.)

Imports to the country were valued at approximately $770 million in 2012; mainly machinery and transport equipment, manufactured goods; fuels, chemicals, pharmaceuticals; food, beverages, and tobacco.

Imports:
$770.1 million (2012 est.)
$773.9 million (2011 est.)
$647.2 million (2010 est.)
$620.5 million (2009 est.)


The following list shows the most important trading partners with Belize for both exports and imports by percentage value.

Exports - partners:

• US 38.1%, UK 16.5%, Costa Rica 10%, Nigeria 4.4% (2011)
  
• US 30.3%, UK 20.8%, Costa Rica 12.7%, Cote dIvoire 4.6%, Nigeria 4.6% (2010)
  
• US 27.8%, UK 27%, Costa Rica 11.1%, Nigeria 4.4%, Cote d'Ivoire 4% (2009)

Imports - partners:

• US 38.2%, Mexico 10.2%, Cuba 9.2%, Guatemala 5.4%, China 5%, Trinidad and Tobago 4.1% (2011)
  
• US 34%, Mexico 14.3%, Cuba 9.5%, Guatemala 7.6%, China 4.7%, Trinidad and Tobago 4.3% (2010)
  
• US 34%, Mexico 12.9%, Cuba 8.6%, Guatemala 6.8%, Spain 6.1%, China 4.4% (2009)
  
  

Source: CIA World Factbook

Exchange Rate Table of Key Trading Partners and
Major Markets against the Belize Dollar

Table of All Countries against Belize Dollar (BZD)

Belize Exchange Rate - quick currency converter

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