Report: 81 countries around the world are exploring central bank digital currencies

A tracking report on global central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) released by the U.S. Geoeconomics Center on August 22 showed that 81 countries (accounting for more than 90% of global GDP) are currently exploring central bank digital currencies.

This number is 46 more than the number in May last year. In addition, five countries have fully launched their own digital currencies. The center said that the report released in April last year has been used by the Federal Reserve and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). Josh Lipsky, a former senior adviser to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), pointed out that among the countries with the four largest central banks (the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, the Bank of Japan and the Bank of England), the United States is the most backward in developing state-backed digital currencies.

At the same time, five countries have now officially launched digital currencies: the Bahamas, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Lucia and Grenada.