How much U.S. paper currency is in circulation?

Money hard Data from 2024

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Answer in dollars. Shorthand like 9m or 1.2bn works.

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$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
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Unit dollars

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