Global Gold Market Pulse

At a glance

Headline figures across the whole dataset — every number below traces to a cited source in the Sources section.

Which country holds the most gold?

Reserves by region

De-dollarization leaderboard: gold as % of reserves

Ranking countries not by tonnes, but by how much of their own foreign-exchange reserves they choose to hold in gold rather than currency or bonds.

Country explorer

Pick any of the 29 countries in the dataset for a full snapshot.

26 years of reserve history: sellers → buyers

From 2000-2008, European central banks were coordinated net sellers under the Central Bank Gold Agreement. Since 2009, the trend has reversed almost every single year.

The selling era: Central Bank Gold Agreements, 1999–2019

10-year momentum: who's rising, who's flat

% change in official reserves over roughly the last decade (exact base year varies slightly by country depending on data availability — see table for the precise years compared).

Who's actually buying gold right now?

Reserve value: how much is all this gold worth?

Where is gold actually mined?

🌐 Global gold price — world market, USD per troy ounce

Record demand: who's buying, and why

Outlook: 2026 – 2030

Sources & methodology

This dashboard mixes a primary dataset (real World Gold Council / IMF IFS reserve files, supplied directly by the project author) with cited secondary data for production, price and demand. Nothing here is simulated.