China’s central bank includes digital yuan in report on currency circulation

The People’s Bank of China, or PBoC, has begun including the country’s central bank digital currency, the e-CNY, in reports measuring the amount of currency in circulation.

According to a 2022 financial statistics report released on Jan. 10, the PBoC said there was 13.61 billion digital yuan — worth roughly $2 billion at the time of publication — in circulation as of Dec. 31. The currency in circulation grew at a rate of 15.3% in December, with the broad money supply reported to be 266.43 trillion yuan.