Central African FX Rates — Daily CFA Franc (XAF) Exchange Rates

Official USD/XAF exchange rates for all 6 CEMAC member states — Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon — derived daily from the ECB Statistical Data Warehouse using the fixed EUR/XAF peg of 655.957.

Unlike the World Bank, IMF, or ECB datasets already on Apify — which publish African macro data annually with a 6–12 month lag — this actor pulls fresh, daily rates directly from ECB's public API, with historical depth back to 1999.

Part of a regional family: West African FX Rates · East African FX Rates · Southern African FX Rates · Central African FX Rates (this actor) · North African actor in the same normalised schema.

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Modes

Mode	What you get	When to use it
usd-core (default)	One USD/XAF rate per country, latest available date	Daily monitoring, dashboards, FX baskets
all-currencies	Latest USD/XAF rate per country (same as usd-core — see note)	Cross-country comparisons
historical	USD/XAF rate per country, every trading day in a date range	Backtesting, time-series analysis, academic research

Note on all-currencies: The XAF rate is derived solely from the ECB EUR/USD series combined with the fixed EUR/XAF peg of 655.957. Only the USD bilateral rate can be freshly computed each trading day; all-currencies therefore returns the same rows as usd-core. The EUR/XAF rate is constant at 655.957 and is not included as a separate row.

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Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	usd-core	See modes table above.
countries	array	all 6	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes to include. CM Cameroon, CF Central African Republic, TD Chad, CG Republic of Congo, GQ Equatorial Guinea, GA Gabon.
dateFrom	string	—	Start date (YYYY-MM-DD). Required in historical mode. Available back to 1999-01-04.
dateTo	string	—	End date (YYYY-MM-DD). Required in historical mode.
maxItems	integer	5000	Hard cap on output rows.

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Output

One record per country per run (in usd-core / all-currencies), or per country-day (in historical).

{
  "id": "CM:USD:2026-06-03:derived",
  "country": "CM",
  "centralBank": "BEAC",
  "baseCurrency": "USD",
  "quoteCurrency": "XAF",
  "pair": "USD/XAF",
  "date": "2026-06-03",
  "buying": null,
  "selling": null,
  "mid": 563.1016,
  "midMethod": "published",
  "inverseMid": 0.001776,
  "rateType": "derived",
  "sharedRate": true,
  "warnings": [],
  "source": {
    "name": "BEAC / ECB (derived daily)",
    "url": "https://data-api.ecb.europa.eu/service/data/EXR/D.USD.EUR.SP00.A",
    "retrievedAt": "2026-06-03T08:00:00.000Z",
    "asOfDate": "2026-06-03",
    "licenseNote": "EUR/USD source: ECB Statistical Data Warehouse (free reuse with attribution). USD/XAF derived using the fixed EUR/XAF peg of 655.957.",
    "derivationNote": "USD/XAF = 655.957 ÷ ECB daily EUR/USD reference rate. The EUR/XAF peg is fixed by treaty; derivation is exact, not estimated."
  }
}

Read it as: 1 USD = 563.10 XAF (derived from ECB EUR/USD on 2026-06-03 and the fixed 655.957 peg).

Field reference

Field	Meaning
country / centralBank	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code + issuing bank abbreviation (BEAC for all 6)
baseCurrency / quoteCurrency / pair	ISO 4217 codes. pair = base/quote. Read as: "price of 1 baseCurrency in quoteCurrency."
date	The rate's as-of date (ISO 8601, YYYY-MM-DD)
buying / selling / mid	XAF is derived from ECB EUR/USD — no bid/ask spread. buying and selling are always null; use mid.
midMethod	How the mid was obtained: published (ECB's own EUR/USD figure)
inverseMid	1/mid — units of base per 1 quote (e.g. USD per XAF)
rateType	derived — USD/XAF is computed from the fixed EUR/XAF peg and ECB EUR/USD
sharedRate	true — all 6 CEMAC countries share the same XAF rate; rows differ only in country and id
warnings	Data-quality flags, e.g. mid_out_of_range, non_positive_rate
id	Deterministic natural key (country:baseCurrency:date:rateType) — safe to use for upsert/dedup
source	Full attribution and provenance block: bank name, ECB URL, retrieval timestamp, as-of date, licence note, derivation formula

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Coverage and source notes

Country	Bank	Rate type	buying / selling	Historical depth
Cameroon (CM)	BEAC	derived — EUR/XAF peg + ECB EUR/USD	null	Back to 1999-01-04
Central African Republic (CF)	BEAC	derived	null	Back to 1999-01-04
Chad (TD)	BEAC	derived	null	Back to 1999-01-04
Republic of Congo (CG)	BEAC	derived	null	Back to 1999-01-04
Equatorial Guinea (GQ)	BEAC	derived	null	Back to 1999-01-04
Gabon (GA)	BEAC	derived	null	Back to 1999-01-04

Why are all rows derived? All 6 CEMAC member states use the Central African CFA franc (XAF) as a common currency. XAF is pegged to EUR at the fixed rate of 655.957 under the Coopération Monétaire Franco-Africaine agreement, maintained since 1948 and guaranteed by the French Treasury. After France adopted the euro in 1999, the peg transferred to EUR. The USD/XAF rate varies daily only because EUR/USD fluctuates; the EUR/XAF peg itself never changes.

No individual country publishes a separate XAF rate — BEAC issues a single rate that applies identically across all 6 states. Per-country rows are emitted for dataset consistency with the other regional actors; sharedRate: true signals that the mid value is the same across all countries for any given date.

ECB EUR/USD series: D.USD.EUR.SP00.A — the ECB's daily reference rate published each business day at approximately 16:00 CET. History starts 1999-01-04.

Delayed data. The ECB reference rate is published at ~16:00 CET and reflects the consensus of central bank surveys, not real-time trading. Intraday and overnight moves are not captured.

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Cost

Pay-per-event pricing:

Mode	Charge	Typical cost
usd-core	One fx-snapshot per run	$0.10 per run
all-currencies	One fx-country-day per unique (country, date) row	$0.015 per row
historical	One fx-country-day per unique (country, date) row	$0.015 per country-day

Examples:

• Daily usd-core for all 6 countries: $0.10/day (~$2.20/month)
• 1 year of historical for one country (USD/XAF): 252 trading days → **$3.78**
• 1 year of historical for all 6 countries: ~252 × 6 = 1,512 events → **$22.68**
• Full 25-year USD/XAF history (1999–2024): 6,500 trading days per country → **$97.50/country**

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Legality & disclaimers

Is the data real-time? No — the ECB reference rate is published once per business day at approximately 16:00 CET.

Legal basis. The USD/XAF rate is derived from two public-domain sources:

1. ECB Statistical Data Warehouse (data-api.ecb.europa.eu) — the ECB explicitly provides its data for free reuse with attribution; no redistribution prohibition.
2. EUR/XAF peg of 655.957 — this is a treaty fact, established by the Coopération Monétaire Franco-Africaine agreement. The peg rate is a legal constant in international monetary law, not proprietary data. It is published in the Official Journal of the EU.

BEAC's own website terms (beac.int/mentions-legales) restrict redistribution of site content to non-commercial personal use. This actor does not scrape BEAC's website; it uses only the ECB API and the publicly-known treaty peg value.

Every output record carries the ECB URL, retrieval timestamp, and a derivationNote documenting the exact formula.

Why no buying / selling? The XAF rate is derived from ECB EUR/USD, which is a mid rate with no bid/ask spread. BEAC does not publish per-currency buying/selling rates via a machine-readable feed.

Resilience. The actor makes a single HTTP call to the ECB API. If ECB is unreachable, the run fails gracefully with a clear error; partial results are never silently returned.

Accuracy. The ECB EUR/USD value is reproduced as published. Use asOfDate and retrievedAt to track versions.

Issues / feedback: use the Issues tab on the actor page.

This is not legal or financial advice. Verify rates against the issuing central bank before acting on them.