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West African FX Rates — Daily Central Bank Exchange Rates

Official USD exchange rates published daily by West African central banks, normalised into one consistent schema. Covers Nigeria (CBN), Ghana (BoG), the 8 WAEMU states (Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo), and Cape Verde (BCV) — 11 countries in total.

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 straight from the issuing institutions.

Part of a regional family: West African FX Rates (this actor), with East, Southern, and North African actors in the same normalised schema.

Modes

Choose a mode to match your use case:

Input

Output

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

Nigeria example:

{
"id":"NG:USD:2026-06-02:official",
"country":"NG",
"centralBank":"CBN",
"baseCurrency":"USD",
"quoteCurrency":"NGN",
"pair":"USD/NGN",
"date":"2026-06-02",
"buying":1360.0497,
"selling":1361.0497,
"mid":1360.5497,
"midMethod":"published",
"inverseMid":0.00073499,
"rateType":"official",
"warnings":[],
"source":{
"name":"Central Bank of Nigeria",
"url":"https://www.cbn.gov.ng/rates/ExchRateByCurrency.html",
"retrievedAt":"2026-06-02T15:00:00.000Z",
"asOfDate":"2026-06-02",
"licenseNote":"Reproduced with attribution per the CBN website Legal Disclaimer."
}
}

Read it as: 1 USD = 1360.55 NGN (buying rate: 1360.05, selling rate: 1361.05).

WAEMU/XOF example (Senegal):

{
"id":"SN:USD:2026-06-02:derived",
"country":"SN",
"centralBank":"BCEAO",
"baseCurrency":"USD",
"quoteCurrency":"XOF",
"pair":"USD/XOF",
"date":"2026-06-02",
"buying":null,
"selling":null,
"mid":563.1016,
"midMethod":"published",
"inverseMid":0.001776,
"rateType":"derived",
"sharedRate":true,
"warnings":[],
"source":{
"name":"BCEAO / ECB (derived daily)",
"url":"https://data-api.ecb.europa.eu/service/data/EXR/D.USD.EUR.SP00.A",
"retrievedAt":"2026-06-02T15:00:00.000Z",
"asOfDate":"2026-06-02",
"licenseNote":"EUR/USD source: ECB Statistical Data Warehouse (free reuse with attribution). USD/XOF derived using the fixed EUR/XOF peg of 655.957.",
"derivationNote":"USD/XOF = 655.957 ÷ ECB daily EUR/USD reference rate. The EUR/XOF peg is fixed by the French Treasury / EU treaty; derivation is exact, not estimated."
}
}

Field reference

Coverage and source notes

Why are WAEMU and Cape Verde rows derived? Both currencies are permanently pegged to the EUR by treaty:

• XOF (8 WAEMU states): pegged at 655.957 since 1999 (French Treasury / EU treaty)
• CVE (Cape Verde escudo): pegged at 110.265 since 1998 (Portugal, continued with the euro)

There is no independent USD rate for either currency — it is derived mathematically: USD/local = peg ÷ ECB daily EUR/USD. The derivation is exact, not estimated. Each row carries sharedRate: true and rateType: "derived". For billing, all 8 WAEMU rows count as one chargeable event per day (they share a single ECB data point); Cape Verde is a separate event.

Delayed data. Rates are scraped from each institution's published page — not a real-time feed. Expect a few hours' lag after a central bank publishes its daily figure.

Cost

Pay-per-event pricing:

Examples:

• Daily usd-core for all 11 countries: $0.10/day (~$2.20/month)
• 1 year of historical for Nigeria + Ghana: 2 × ~252 trading days = $7.56**
• 1 year of historical for all 11 countries: Nigeria + Ghana + 1 WAEMU data point + Cape Verde = 4 × ~252 = $15**

Legality & disclaimers

Is the data real-time? No — it is delayed. We scrape each bank's published web page; publishing lag varies by institution.

Legal basis. Official exchange rates are factual data. Copyright protects creative expression, not facts. These central-bank sites carry only a general copyright notice with no contractual restriction on reusing the published rate figures. The Central Bank of Nigeria additionally grants explicit permission to copy material "provided that CBN is stated expressly as the source." Every output record carries the issuing bank's name, URL, and a licence note — we reproduce values exactly as published without alteration.

Accuracy. Values are reproduced as published. If a bank revises a figure, re-run to pick up the change; use asOfDate and retrievedAt to track versions.

Resilience. Each source is fetched independently. If one central bank's site is down, the run still returns data from the others and logs a per-source summary.

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.