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Who's buying gold, country by country.
Central banks hold gold when they don't trust paper. Track official reserves in tonnes, USD value, quarterly flows, and how much of each country's currency is implicitly backed by bullion. Sustained buying from BRICS and emerging markets has preceded every major gold move of the last 20 years.
34 countries tracked11 buying YoYSource · IMF IFS + World Gold Council
Global CB reserves
All tracked central banks
Total value
At spot today
Top buyer (YoY)
+132.0t added
Countries buying
of 34 tracked
Showing 34 of 34 countries
| 1 |  Poland PLEurope | 580 | $54.08B | 28.0% | +132.0t | — |
| 1 |  United States USNorth America | 8,133.5 | $750.50B | 84.2% | +0.6t | 3.90% |
| 2 |  Germany DEEurope | 3,350.3 | $309.14B | 84.0% | +1.3t | 9.66% |
| 3 |  Italy ITEurope | 2,451.8 | $226.23B | 81.3% | — | 10.77% |
| 4 |  France FREurope | 2,437 | $224.87B | 81.8% | -0.5t | 8.03% |
| 5 |  Russia RUEurope | 2,317.2 | $213.81B | 47.0% | +36.9t | 85.53% |
| 6 |  China CNAsia | 2,306.3 | $212.81B | 9.6% | +57.3t | 1.29% |
| 7 |  Switzerland CHEurope | 1,039.9 | $95.95B | 15.2% | — | 11.29% |
| 8 |  India INAsia | 880.2 | $81.22B | 19.4% | +82.2t | 11.89% |
| 9 |  Japan JPAsia | 846 | $78.06B | 9.7% | — | 1.09% |
| 10 |  Turkey TRMiddle East | 613.7 | $56.63B | 34.0% | +28.8t | 22.65% |
| 11 |  Netherlands NLEurope | 612.5 | $56.52B | 74.2% | +0.5t | 12.56% |
| 13 |  Taiwan TWAsia | 423.6 | $39.09B | 5.0% | — | 5.58% |
| 14 |  Kazakhstan KZAsia | 387 | $35.71B | 72.0% | +0.7t | 0.12% |
| 15 |  Uzbekistan UZAsia | 383 | $35.34B | 65.0% | -3.8t | 0.63% |
| 16 |  Portugal PTEurope | 382.5 | $35.29B | 78.0% | -0.1t | 100.84% |
| 17 |  Saudi Arabia SAMiddle East | 323.1 | $29.81B | 5.0% | — | 11.93% |
| 18 |  United Kingdom GBEurope | 310.3 | $28.63B | 12.0% | — | 0.89% |
| 19 |  Lebanon LBMiddle East | 286.8 | $26.46B | 82.0% | — | 0.26% |
| 20 |  Spain ESEurope | 281.6 | $25.98B | 20.0% | — | 1.62% |
| 21 |  Austria ATEurope | 280 | $25.84B | 69.7% | — | 6.89% |
| 22 |  Thailand THAsia | 234.5 | $21.64B | 12.9% | -9.7t | 19.46% |
| 23 |  Belgium BEEurope | 227.4 | $20.98B | 59.6% | — | 6.71% |
| 24 |  Singapore SGAsia | 193.6 | $17.86B | 7.0% | +39.6t | 4.26% |
| 25 |  Algeria DZAfrica | 173.6 | $16.02B | 0.0% | — | 32.04% |
| 26 |  Iraq IQMiddle East | 170.9 | $15.77B | 24.6% | — | 30.92% |
| 27 |  Philippines PHAsia | 133.1 | $12.28B | 18.8% | -95.9t | 9.12% |
| 28 |  Egypt EGAfrica | 129.4 | $11.94B | 41.5% | — | 15.00% |
| 29 |  Sweden SEEurope | 125.7 | $11.60B | 26.1% | — | 2.60% |
| 30 |  South Africa ZAAfrica | 125.3 | $11.56B | 0.0% | -0.1t | 16.28% |
| 31 |  Mexico MXNorth America | 123.5 | $11.40B | 0.0% | +3.4t | 2.33% |
| 32 |  Libya LYAfrica | 116.5 | $10.75B | 0.0% | -0.1t | 51.19% |
| 33 |  Australia AUOceania | 79.9 | $7.37B | 13.5% | — | 0.57% |
| 34 |  Czech Republic CZEurope | 71.6 | $6.61B | 5.8% | — | 2.35% |