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How Many U.S. Dollar Bills Are There In Circulation?

By Kurt Osterberg · On April 17, 2018

How Many U.S. Dollar Bills Are There in Circulation?

When you think about it, the journey of each individual currency note is pretty incredible.

After being printed or minted, each bill is then passed between people and businesses to facilitate transactions. If it’s a $1 or $5 bill, it changes hands on average about 110 times per year – and if it’s a $20 bill, it’s more like 75. The interesting part is that almost every transaction is linked to the one before it, and the series of subsequent transactions for each bill creates a unique, broad story.

By the time a bill is retired, it would have facilitated many hundreds of transactions that enabled everything from the purchase of used cars to the shadier deals in underground markets. It’s a pretty interesting tale for such a little piece of paper.

DOLLAR BILLS, IN AGGREGATE

Today’s infographic from TitleMax gives a sense of what happens when all of those individual stories are combined together into one large one: the U.S. supply of currency notes, the shelf life of each type of bill, and how the whole system works as a whole.

In total, there is a total of about $1.5 trillion in U.S. physical currency in circulation, and roughly 80% of this value comes from the 11.5 billion $100 notes that are in circulation.

Note Number of bills in circulation $1 bill 11.7 billion $2 bill 1.2 billion $5 bill 2.8 billion $10 bill 1.9 billion $20 bill 8.9 billion $50 bill 1.7 billion $100 bill 11.5 billion

Of course, as we showed in All the World’s Money and Markets, this is just a fraction of the total money that exists as a whole, which includes digital deposits and liquidity added by central banks. That’s why, in the U.S. today, there’s about $14 trillion in total money supply (M2), of which physical currency makes up only about 11% of the total value.

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