Top 10 Countries With The Biggest Gold Reserves 2017

A gold reserve is the gold held by a national central bank, intended as a store of value and as a guarantee to redeem promises to pay depositors, note holders (e.g. paper money), or trading peers, or to secure a currency.

This list presents the gold reserves of largest gold holding countries worldwide as of June 2017.

10. India 557.8 tonnes

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9. Netherlands 612.5 tonnes

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8. Japan 765.2 tonnes

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7. Switzerland 1,040 tonnes

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6. Russia 1,687.3 tonnes

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5. China 1,842.6 tonnes

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4. France 2,435.9 tonnes

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3. Italy 2,451.8 tonnes

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2. Germany 3,377.3 tonnes

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1. United States 8,133.5 tonnes

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Sources: gold.org, wikipedia.org

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