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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%