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Sept/2008 World Official Gold Holding

posted on Dec 12, 2008 03:46PM
RankCountry/OrganizationGold
(tonnes)Gold's share
of total
forex reserves (%)[6]
World official gold holding (September 2008)[6]
- World 29,783.9 -
- Eurozone (incl. ECB) 10,911.4 58.0%
1 USA 8,133.5 77.3%
2 Germany 3,413.1 66.4%
3 International Monetary Fund 3,217.3 -
4 France 2,540.9 57.8%
5 Italy 2,451.8 67.0%
6 Switzerland 1,064.1 38.1%
7 Japan 765.2 2.1%
- SPDR Gold Trust (a Gold exchange-traded fund) 745.2[7] -
8 Netherlands 621.4 59.9%
9 People's Republic of China 600.0 0.9%
10 European Central Bank 533.6 23.0%
11 Russia 472.6 2.1%
12 Republic of China (Taiwan) 422.4 3.8%
13 Portugal 382.5 85.5%
14 India 357.7 3.1%
15 Venezuela 356.8 29.3%
16 United Kingdom 310.3 15.4%
17 Lebanon 286.8 33.5%
18 Spain 281.6 39.0%
19 Austria 280.0 40.4%
20 Belgium 227.6 37.3%
21 Algeria 173.6 3.4%
22 Libya 143.8 4.2%
23 Sweden 143.2 11.7%
24 Saudi Arabia 143.0 10.0%
25 Philippines 133.1 9.9%
26 Singapore 127.4 1.9%
27 Bank for International Settlements 125.0 -
28 South Africa 124.3 9.6%
29 Turkey 116.0 3.9%
30 Greece 104.6 87.6%
31 Romania 103.7 6.6%
32 Poland 102.9 3.3%
33 Thailand 84.0 2.2%
34 Australia 79.8 6.1%
35 Kuwait 79.0 13.4%
36 Egypt 75.6 5.8%
37 Indonesia 73.1 3.3%
38 Kazakhstan 73.0 9.4%
39 Denmark 66.5 5.1%
40 Pakistan 65.3 16.0%
41 Argentina 54.7 3.1%
42 Finland 49.1 15.7%
43 Bulgaria 39.6 5.1%
44 West African Economic and Monetary Union 36.5 9.0%
45 Malaysia 36.4 0.8%
46 Slovakia 35.1 4.8%
47 Peru 34.7 2.6%
48 Brazil 33.6 0.4%
- Central Fund of Canada (Closed End Mutual Fund - (AMEX:CEF)) 30.2[8] -
49 Bolivia 28.3 10.3%
50 Ecuador 26.3 11.6%
51 Ukraine 26.2 2.0%
52 Syria 25.9 -
53 Morocco 22.0 2.2%
54 Nigeria 21.4 0.9%
55 Belarus 20.3 11.6%
56 Jordan 14.8 5.2%
57 South Korea 14.3 0.1%
58 Cyprus 13.9 29.7%
59 Czech Republic 13.2 0.9%
60 Netherlands Antilles 13.1 31.4%
61 Cambodia 12.4 12.9%
62 Qatar 12.4 2.6%
63 Serbia 12.2 2.3%
- BullionVault 11.9[9] -
64 Laos 8.1 23.1%
65 Latvia 7.7 3.3%
66 El Salvador 7.3 8.2%
67 Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa 7.1 -
68 Guatemala 6.9 3.9%
69 Colombia 6.9 0.8%
70 Macedonia 6.8 7.6%
71 Tunisia 6.8 2.1%
72 Lithuania 5.8 2.3%
73 Ireland 5.5 16.3%
74 Sri Lanka 5.3 3.8%
75 Mongolia 5.2 10.9%
76 Bahrain 4.7 -
77 Bangladesh 3.5 1.6%
78 Mexico 3.4 0.1%
79 Canada 3.4 0.2%
80 Slovenia 3.2 7.2%
81 Aruba 3.1 17.1%
82 Hungary 3.1 0.3%
83 Mozambique 3.0 4.6%
84 Kyrgyzstan 2.6 5.3%
85 Luxembourg 2.3 10.8%
86 Albania 2.2 2.6%
87 Hong Kong 2.1 0.0%
88 Iceland 2.0 1.9%
89 Tajikistan 2.0 -
90 Papua New Guinea 2.0 2.1%
91 Mauritius 1.9 2.4%
92 Trinidad and Tobago 1.9 0.6%
93 Yemen 1.6 0.5%
94 Suriname 1.4 7.0%
95 Cameroon 0.9 -
96 Honduras 0.7 0.7%
97 Paraguay 0.7 0.6%
98 Dominican Republic 0.6 0.7%
99 Gabon 0.4 -
100 Republic of the Congo 0.3 -
101 Chad 0.3 -
102 Central African Republic 0.3 -
103 Uruguay 0.3 0.1%
104 Estonia 0.2 0.1%
105 Chile 0.2 0.0%
106 Malta 0.2 0.8%
107 Costa Rica 0.1 0.0%

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