About the AUD/VUV rate
The AUD/VUV rate is how many VUV one Australian dollar buys. It moves constantly with interest-rate expectations, commodity prices and global risk sentiment - see what moves the rate. Tradergy shows the mid-market reference rate and does not forecast where it’s heading. For the 52-week highs and lows and a daily table, see the AUD/VUV rate history.
Reading the same rate from the other side: the reverse rate, VUV → AUD, is on the receiving Vanuatu vatu view, and sending Australian dollars to Vanuatu is covered on the AUD → VUV transfer page. Every AUD pair sits on the convert hub, and to work in more than one currency at once there is the currency converter.
What actually moves money between Australia and Vanuatu
The Australia to Vanuatu corridor is a labour one before it is anything else, and the scale is documented. Over 2012 to 2024 Vanuatu was the largest supplier of seasonal workers among Pacific island countries, and in 2022-23 some 16,562 ni-Vanuatu workers were in Australia and New Zealand - 9,462 in Australia and 7,100 in New Zealand - the most from any Pacific island country. Around a thousand were granted long-term visas across 2022 to 2024, with the remainder on the short-term stream. By industry in 2024 they were 56.0 per cent in agriculture and 35.7 per cent in meat processing, with the rest in accommodation and in health care and social assistance.
The money that flows back is a first-order part of the economy, running at roughly a tenth of gross domestic product in 2024 on the International Monetary Fund's estimates, having peaked at around a fifth in 2021. The Fund also records the cost side of the same arrangement in the authorities' own terms: an increasing loss of skilled workers, felt most in tourism and hospitality, construction and the technical trades.
The currency those payments arrive in is pegged to a basket, and the basket is not published. The Reserve Bank of Vanuatu does not disclose its composition or weights, and neither does the Fund's staff report, which describes the peg as serving as a nominal anchor that requires close review and monitoring. As at September 2025 a revised set of weights had been worked out with technical assistance from the Fund and the authorities were prepared to implement them - pending approval from the Reserve Bank's own board, which had not yet been given.
Sources: International Monetary Fund, Vanuatu 2025 Article IV Consultation