Official reference rate, SSP per USD

What this is not

Almost every serious error in operational data is a category error rather than an arithmetic one. These are the things this indicator shares a unit with and must never be combined with.

• The parallel cash rate. These are two regimes with different eligibility, not two estimates of one number, and the gap between them is a finding rather than an error.
• The rate most commercial transactions actually settle at.

How current a reading has to be

Current within 7 days, usable within 30 days, measured against the 2026-09-23 build rather than against the time you read this page. A static deployment cannot re-age itself, so the build date is the honest anchor.

The parallel rate has moved by double digits within single months in this corpus. A reading older than a week describes a different market; past a month it is history.

Readings held (1)

• 3,450 SSP per USD — observed 2026-08-25, 29 days before the 2026-09-23 build
  Source: Bank of South Sudan Daily Gazette Benchmark · Central Equatoria & Major State Capitals (named only — no coordinate held) · Aging · DISPUTED · evidence ev-00483
  As the source states it: “3,450 SSP / USD (Official Peg)”
  Another source makes an incompatible claim about this subject. Both positions are published and neither is preferred.

What SSIP says about it

• Official reference rate, SSP per USD: 3,450 SSP per USD, recorded 2026-08-25 by Bank of South Sudan Daily Gazette Benchmark. Past this indicator's 7-day currency window (29 days old as of 2026-09-23); usable with its date shown.
  Rule: Take the most recent dated observation bound to this indicator and classify its age against the indicator's own freshness policy (7 days current, 30 days usable — The parallel rate has moved by double digits within single months in this corpus. A reading older than a week describes a different market; past a month it is history.).
  Does not establish: That the condition still holds today. This is the most recent reading SSIP holds, not a statement about 2026-09-23. The parallel cash rate. These are two regimes with different eligibility, not two estimates of one number, and the gap between them is a finding rather than an error.
• On 2026-08-25 the parallel cash rate stood 33.9% above the official reference rate — 4,620 against 3,450 SSP per USD. These are two exchange-rate regimes with different eligibility, not two estimates of one rate, and SSIP publishes both rather than a blend.
  Rule: Where SSIP holds an official reference rate and a parallel cash rate carrying the same observation date, report the percentage distance between them. The two are never averaged, and no ratio is computed across different dates, because part of any such spread would be the passage of time rather than the divergence.
  Does not establish: Which rate any particular transaction settles at. Eligibility for the official rate is restricted to qualifying letter-of-credit allocations, and SSIP holds no data on the share of transactions clearing under each regime.
• Parallel Exchange Rate vs Central Bank Official Peg: Bank of South Sudan Daily Gazette Benchmark records 3,450 SSP / USD (Official Peg), Juba FX Dealers Association Morning Spot Survey records 4,620 SSP / USD (Parallel Cash). The register attributes the divergence to: "Structural liquidity gap: Central Bank official rate applies only to qualified letters of credit for essential medicines and grain imports, while retail traders, transport operators, and construction contractors must procure cash dollars on the open market."
  Rule: Publish both positions from the contradiction register with their own sources and dates, and carry the register's stated root cause. SSIP does not choose between them and does not average them.
  Does not establish: Which figure is correct. The register records these as measuring different things on different bases; where that is so, both can be right and neither answers the other's question.

What SSIP does not hold

• SSIP holds this rate only on the dates a contradiction register recorded it. There is no continuous official series in the corpus.

How to read this

Every figure on this page carries an evidence state — Verified, Operational, Announced, Estimated, Inferred, Disputed, Simulated, Reference or Unavailable — and each state has a stated definition. SSIP does not present an estimate as an observation, and it does not record a missing value as zero.

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Cite, check and correct

Cite as: “Official reference rate, SSP per USD”. Strategic Systems Intelligence. https://ssintelligence.online/indicators/fx-official-ssp-usd. Last updated 2026-08-25. Carry the evidence state with any figure you quote.

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