World official gold holding (December 2009)[11] Rank Country/Organization Gold
(tonnes) Gold's share
of national
forex reserves (%)[11]

1	United States	8,133.5	68.7%
2	Germany	3,407.6	64.6%
3	International Monetary Fund	3,005.3	-
4	Italy	2,451.8	63.4%
5	France	2,435.4	64.2%
6	China	1,054.0[12]	1.5%
7	Switzerland	1,040.1	28.8%
8	Japan	765.2	2.4%
9	Netherlands	612.5	51.7%
10	Russia	607.7[13]	4.7%
11	India	557.7[6]	6.4%
12	European Central Bank	501.4	19.6%
13	Taiwan	423.6	4.1%
14	Portugal	382.5	83.8%
15	Venezuela	356.4	35.7%
16	United Kingdom	310.3	15.2%
17	Lebanon	286.8	26.5%
18	Spain	281.6	34.6%
19	Austria	280.0	52.7%
20	Belgium	227.5	31.8%
21	Algeria	173.6	3.8%
22	Philippines	154.7	12.1%
23	Libya	143.8	4.6%
24	Saudi Arabia	143.0	10.2%
25	Singapore	127.4	2.3%
26	Sweden	125.7	8.6%
27	South Africa	124.8	10.5%
28	Bank for International Settlements	120.0	-
29	Turkey	116.1	5.2%
30	Greece	112.4	71.5%
31	Romania	103.7	7.4%
32	Poland	102.9	4.4%
33	Thailand	84.0	2.1%
34	Australia	79.9	6.0%
35	Kuwait	79.0	11.4%
36	Egypt	75.6	7.4%
37	Kazakhstan	74.5	12.0%
38	Indonesia	73.1	3.9%
39	Denmark	66.5	2.8%
40	Pakistan	65.4	15.8%
41	Argentina	54.7	3.7%
42	Finland	49.1	15.1%
43	Bulgaria	39.9	7.1%
44	West African Economic and Monetary Union	36.5	9.9%
45	Malaysia	36.4	1.3%
46	Peru	34.7	3.6%
47	Brazil	33.6	0.5%
48	Slovakia	31.8	60.3%
49	Bolivia	28.3	11.0%
50	Belarus	28.3	23.1%
51	Ukraine	26.9	3.2%
52	Ecuador	26.3	19.1%
53	Syria	25.8	-
54	Morocco	22.0	3.1%
55	Nigeria	21.4	1.5%
56	Sri Lanka	15.3[7]	22.3%
57	South Korea	14.4	0.2%
58	Cyprus	13.9	38.7%
59	Netherlands Antilles	13.1	33.1%
60	Serbia	13.0	3.1%
61	Czech Republic	12.9	1.0%
62	Jordan	12.8	3.7%
63	Cambodia	12.4	12.8%
64	Qatar	12.4	2.4%
65	Mexico	8.8	0.3%
66	Latvia	7.7	3.9%
67	El Salvador	7.3	7.9%
68	Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa	7.1	1.6%
69	Guatemala	6.9	4.5%
70	Colombia	6.9	0.9%
71	Macedonia	6.8	9.9%
72	Tunisia	6.8	2.1%
73	Iraq	5.9	0.4%
74	Lithuania	5.8	2.3%
75	Ireland	5.5	8.4%
76	Mauritius	3.9[8]	5.6%
77	Bangladesh	3.5	1.3%
78	Canada	3.4	0.2%
79	Slovenia	3.2	9.7%
80	Aruba	3.1	15.8%
81	Hungary	3.1	0.2%
82	Mozambique	2.7	4.4%
83	Kyrgyzstan	2.6	5.7%
84	Luxembourg	2.3	9.4%
85	Tajikistan	2.2	-
86	Hong Kong	2.1	0.0%
87	Iceland	2.0	1.9%
88	Papua New Guinea	2.0	2.7%
89	Trinidad and Tobago	1.9	0.7%
90	Suriname	1.7	7.6%
91	Albania	1.6	2.1%
92	Yemen	1.6	0.7%
93	Cameroon	0.9	0.9%
94	Honduras	0.7	0.9%
95	Paraguay	0.7	0.6%
96	Dominican Republic	0.6	0.8%
97	Gabon	0.4	0.7%
98	Malawi	0.4	4.3%
99	Malta	0.4	2.2%
100	Central African Republic	0.3	8.1%
101	Chad	0.3	1.4%
102	Republic of the Congo	0.3	0.3%
103	Uruguay	0.3	0.1%
104	Fiji	0.2	-
105	Estonia	0.2	0.2%
106	Chile	0.2	0.0%
107	Costa Rica	0.1	0.1%

[edit] Privately held gold

As of October 2009, gold exchange-traded funds held 1,750 tonnes of gold for private and institutional investors.[14]

Gold Holdings Corp. a publicly listed gold company estimates that the amount of in-ground verified gold resources currently controlled by publicly traded gold mining companies is roughly 50,000 tonnes.[15]

Privately held gold Rank Organization Gold (Tonnes) Reference

1	SPDR Gold Trust	1,104.0	[16]
2	iShares Gold Trust	66.9	[17]
3	Central Fund of Canada	30.2	[18]
4	BullionVault (storage)	18.8	[19]