How much U.S. money is currently in circulation throughout the world?
2 trillion or more… ================================ How much money is “all the money in the world”? To make this question answerable in a finite amount of time, let’s make a simplification and ask, “How much money is there in the United States?” Since the statistics for the U.S. are easy to come by, we can look at it in a couple of different ways. The first way to look at it might be, “How much cash is there in U.S. currency?” If you took all the bills and coins floating around today, how much money is that? According to the Federal Reserve, the current number is very close to half a trillion dollars. This page shows the total amount of currency available by month since 1959. That sounds like an incredible amount, but think about it this way: In 1990, there were about 250,000,000 people in the U.S. (see this page). If you took all the cash and divided it up equally, each person would only get about $2,000. Obviously there is more money floating around than that. [obviously!] The res
