The GBPUSD increased 0.0035 or 0.27% to 1.2924 on Thursday March 27 from 1.2889 in the previous trading session. British Pound - values, historical data, forecasts and news - updated on March of 2025.

The pound to euro history reveals that exchange rates in 2022 were not as low as they were during 2008 or since the Brexit referendum. Since the United Kingdom (UK) held a referendum on its European Union membership in June 2016, the British pound (GBP) weakened against the euro. From a high of 1.43 at the end of Nov 2015, the GBP to EUR exchange rate has remained below 1.2 since July 2016, sitting at 1.11 as of October 2020. By March 25, 2025, values had reached 1.20 euros per pound. The euro to pound exchange rate can be found on a different page.Hitting UK citizens' pockets It is not just European holiday makers that are hit when the British pound to Euro exchange rate falls. The average UK consumer also feels the pinch as inflation rates often rise to cover the shortfall of the pound. When the inflation rate rises, the price of imported goods goes up and the consumer ends up paying more. GBP to U.S. dollarSince 2016's referendum, the British pound (GBP) fell across the exchange. The GBP's fall against the Euro was also reflected against the U.S. dollar where the exchange rate in May 2016 (pre-referendum) of 1.46 dollars to the pound has fallen significantly.

This statistic shows the exchange rate of Pound Sterling (GBP) against the Euro (EUR) between June 20th and July 25th, 2016. The data displays a stable rate of exchange until the day after the UK’s EU Referendum, referred to as Brexit (June 23rd), at which point the value of the pound against the euro began to drop.

Long term dataset showing the daily Euro - British Pound (EURGBP) exchange rate back to 1999.

When converted to the value of one British pound Sterling in 2019, goods and services that cost one pound in 1210 would cost just over two thousand pounds in 2019, meaning that one pound in 1210 was worth approximately two thousand times more than it is today. This data can be used to calculate how much goods and services from the years shown would cost today, by multiplying the price from then by the number shown in the graph. For example, an item that cost 50 pounds in 1970 would theoretically cost 780 pounds in 2019's money.

The USDEGP increased 0.0487 or 0.10% to 50.5487 on Thursday March 27 from 50.5000 in the previous trading session. Egyptian Pound - values, historical data, forecasts and news - updated on March of 2025.

During 2022, the GBP/USD exchange rate reached its lowest value ever recorded, after the UK government announced its initial plans to combat inflation. Prices did increase again after these plans were turned back shortly after. As of March 25, 2025, one pound was valued at roughly 1.29 U.S. dollars.What affects an exchange rateThere are several factors that can affect an exchange rate. In terms of the current situation, the political and economic standings surrounding Brexit is probably the largest driver in the current form of the British pound. Other factors include inflation and interest rates, public debts, deficits as well as the country's export prices to import prices ratio.British pound to EuroSince the United Kingdom (UK) held a referendum on its European Union membership in June 2016, the British pound's (GBP) standing against the Euro has also been affected. During the first half of 2020, the British pound against the Euro weakened overall.

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In 2023, the annual retail revenue from mobile data services in the United Kingdom (UK) amounted to approximately 1.5 billion British pounds (GBP). From 2009 to 2013 the revenues generated from mobile services increased and reached their peak in 2013 with 2.73 billion GBP. After this peak, it fell by 0.97 billion GBP to 1.76 billion GBP in 2014. Since this significant drop, the revenues have continued to decrease, but not with the same speed.

In the fourth quarter of 2023, the retail revenues generated by SMS and MMS messages in the United Kingdom (UK) amounted to 114 million British pounds (GBP). Since 2012 the revenues have decreased, with two larger drops. The first significant drop was in the first quarter of 2013 when it dropped from 589 million GBP in the last quarter of 2012 to 420 million GBP, and the second significant drop was in the first quarter of 2015 when it fell from 314 million GBP in the last quarter of 2014 to 193 GBP.

The USDSYP traded at 13,005.0000 on Wednesday March 26. Syrian Pound - values, historical data, forecasts and news - updated on March of 2025.

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A graphic that displays the dollar performance against other currencies reveals that economic developments had mixed results on currency exchanges. The third quarter of 2023 marked a period of disinflation in the euro area, while China's projected growth was projected to go up. The United States economy was said to have a relatively strong performance in Q3 2023, although growing capital market interest rate and the resumption of student loan repayments might dampen this growth at the end of 2023. A relatively weak Japanese yen Q3 2023 saw pressure from investors towards Japanese authorities on how they would respond to the situation surrounding the Japanese yen. The USD/JPY rate was close to 150, whereas analysts suspected it should be around 90 given the country's purchase power parity. The main reason for this disparity is said to be the differences in central bank interest rates between the United States, the euro area, and Japan. Any future aggressive changes from, especially the U.S. Fed might lower those differences. Financial markets responded somewhat disappoint when Japan did not announce major plans to tackle the situation. Potential rent decreases in 2024 Central bank rates peak in 2023, although it is expected that some of these will decline in early 2024. That said, analysts expect overall policies will remain restrictive. For example, the Bank of England's interest rate remained unchanged at 5.25 percent in Q3 2023. It is believed the United Kingdom's central bank will ease its interest rate in 2024 but less than either the U.S. Fed or the European Central Bank. This should be a positive development for the pound compared to either the euro or the dollar.

The gross domestic product of the United Kingdom was around 2.56 trillion British pounds, an increase when compared to the previous year, when UK GDP amounted to about 2.54 trillion pounds. The significant drop in GDP visible in 2020 was due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with the smaller declines in 2008 and 2009 because of the global financial crisis of the late 2000s. Low growth problem in the UK Despite growing by 0.9 percent in 2024, and 0.4 percent in 2023 the UK economy is not that much larger than it was before the COVID-19 pandemic. Since recovering from a huge fall in GDP in the second quarter of 2020, the UK economy has alternated between periods of contraction and low growth, with the UK even in a recession at the end of 2023. While economic growth picked up somewhat in 2024, GDP per capita is lower than it was in 2022, following two years of negative growth. How big is the UK economy in relation to the rest of the world? As of 2024, the UK had the sixth-largest economy in the world, behind the United States, China, Japan, Germany, and India. Among European nations, this meant that the UK currently has the second-largest economy in Europe, although the economy of France, Europe's third-largest economy, is of a similar size. The UK's global economic ranking will likely fall in the coming years, however, with the UK's share of global GDP expected to fall from 2.16 percent in 2025 to 2.02 percent by 2029.  

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