The reserve value totaled 621.5 billion patacas (€71.8 billion) at the end of January, according to data published in the Official Gazette of Macau.
Despite this, the figure remains far from the record 663.6 billion patacas (€76.6 billion) reached in February 2021, at the height of the pandemic.
According to data from the Monetary Authority of Macau (AMCM), the reserve recorded in 2024 the best year since the Covid-19 pandemic, after gaining 35.7 billion patacas (€4.12 billion).
This was the highest annual increase since 2019, when the reserve value rose by 70.6 billion patacas (€8.15 billion).
The extraordinary reserve value at the end of January was 452 billion patacas (€52.2 billion), and the basic reserve, equivalent to 150% of Macau’s public budget, was 164.2 billion patacas (€19 billion).
The territory’s budget for 2025 forecasts a 7% increase in total expenditure, reaching 109.4 billion patacas (€12.6 billion).
Macau’s financial reserve is mainly composed of deposits and current accounts amounting to 248.1 billion patacas (€28.7 billion), credit securities totaling 119.3 billion patacas (€13.8 billion), and up to 247.6 billion patacas (€28.6 billion) in subcontracted investments.
In 2024, investments yielded the financial reserve almost 31 billion patacas (€3.57 billion), corresponding to a return rate of 5.3%, stated the AMCM at the end of February.
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