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Central Bank Gold Holdings - vrk100 - 21Mar2022

Central Bank Gold Holdings

 

Gold Reserves

 

The US, Germany and Italy are the top three nations with the biggest gold reserves in the world. Their gold reserves are 8,100 tonnes, 3,400 tonnes and 2,500 tonnes respectively valued at USD 472 billion, USD 195 billion and USD 142 billion respectively.

Gold forms the largest part of the foreign exchange reserves of the US, Germany and Italy -- for example, the US has 66 per cent of its forex reserves in gold. 

Among emerging markets, Russia, China and India are the fifth, sixth and ninth largest holders of gold reserves respectively -- with 2,300 tonnes, 1,900 and 750 tonnes of gold reserves.

The data are as of 31Dec2021, according to World Gold Council.

Table 1: Nations with the biggest gold reserves >


Forex Reserves

China, Japan and Switzerland are the top three nations with the biggest foreign exchange reserves. But gold forms only a small part of their total forex reserves.

The data are as of 31Dec2021, according to World Gold Council.

 Table 2: Nations with the largest foreign exchange (forex) reserves >



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