All The World's Gold

All The World's Gold
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We here at NumberSleuth are all about exploring the world of numbers, and with this infographic we decided to take a look at the numbers behind the entire amount
of gold in the world. Below are a series of questions that we began with and the answers we discovered in our research. We believe that this is the most thorough
and in-depth resource about the world's gold on the Internet and we hope you have as much fun reading through the information as we did in putting it all together.
1. How much above-ground gold (gold that has been mined) is there in all the world?
The best estimate at the end of 2011 is that around 165,000 metric tons (or tonnes) have been mined in all of human history. Thats about 181,881 ordinary tons or
363,762,732 pounds, or 5,820,203,717 ordinary ounces. Gold typically is measured in what are known as troy ounces, which are a little bigger than ordinary ounces
(a troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams whereas an ordinary ounce is 28.3495231 grams). There are 32.1507466 troy ounces in a kilogram or 32,150.7466 troy ounces in
a metric ton.
More than half of all humanitys gold has been extracted in the past 50 years. Now the worlds richest deposits are fast being depleted, and new discoveries are
rare. Gone are the hundred-mile-long gold reefs in South Africa or cherry-size nuggets in California. Most of the gold left to mine exists as traces buried in remote
and fragile corners of the globe. It's an invitation to destruction. But there is no shortage of miners, big and small, who are willing to accept. [QUOTE
SOURCE: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/print/2009/01/gold/larmer-text.]
SOURCES: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/print/2009/01/gold/larmer-text, http://www.gold.org/about_gold, and http://minerals.usgs.gov.
2. How much gold gets mined per year worldwide?

The table below shows world gold production from 1900 thru 2011. Production in 1900 was around 400 metric tons per year and has consistently moved up over the
years. It is currently around 2,500 metric tons per year. The all time high was reached in 2001, with 2,600 metric tons of gold production worldwide. The total gold
mined from 1900 to the present is just under 141,000 metric tons. Given that humans have mined a total of 165,000 metric tons over the course of history, that
leaves just 24,000 metric tons mined before the 20thcentury.
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SOURCE: http://goldratefortoday.org/world-gold-production-1900-2010.
Year
Average Price
Total Dollar Value by Year
Troy Ounces per Year
1900
1901
1902
1903
1904
1905
1906
1907
1908
1909
1910
1911
1912
World Production (in

metric tons)
386
395
451
496
526
575
608
623
668
687
689
699
705
$ 18.96
$18.98
$18.97
$18.95
$18.96
$18.92
$18.90
$18.94
$18.95
$18.96
$18.92
$18.92
$18.93
$235,297,168.04
$241,037,362.33
$275,064,748.01
$302,191,297.44
$320,638,109.81
$349,767,972.26
$369,450,659.33
$379,366,592.60
$406,983,440.91
$418,780,192.85
$419,113,274.59
$425,196,195.84
$429,072,611.36
12,410,188.19
12,699,544.91
14,499,986.72
15,946,770.31
16,911,292.71
18,486,679.30
19,547,653.93
20,029,915.13
21,476,698.73
22,087,562.91
22,151,864.41
22,473,371.87
22,666,276.35
1913
1914
1915
1916
1917
1918
1919
1920
1921
1922
1923
1924
1925
1926
1927
1928
1929
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
694
663
704
685
631
578
550
507
498
481
554
592
591
602
597
603
609
648
695
754
793
841
924
1,030
1,100
1,170
1,230
1,310
1,080
1,120
896
813
$18.92
$18.99
$18.99
$18.99
$18.99
$18.99
$19.95
$20.68
$20.58
$20.66
$21.32
$20.69
$20.64
$20.63
$20.64
$20.66
$20.63
$20.65
$17.06
$20.69
$26.33
$34.69
$34.84
$34.87
$34.79
$34.85
$34.42
$33.85
$33.85
$33.85
$33.85
$33.85
$422,154,735.22
$404,789,795.47
$429,822,045.27
$418,221,734.38
$385,252,429.78
$352,893,667.85
$352,774,067.07
$337,092,861.92
$329,507,857.78
$319,496,758.31
$379,741,470.30
$393,797,776.72
$392,182,523.21
$399,288,481.22
$396,164,071.66
$400,533,358.13
$403,931,370.54
$430,215,570.40
$381,201,757.21
$501,560,006.15
$671,297,622.28
$937,975,205.02
1,035,001,978.67
1,154,729,429.96
1,230,376,921.64
1,310,930,617.24
1,361,153,298.51
1,425,676,631.86
1,175,366,994.20
1,218,899,105.10
$975,119,284.08
$884,790,153.97
22,312,618.14
21,315,945.00
22,634,125.61
22,023,261.42
20,287,121.10
18,583,131.53
17,682,910.63
16,300,428.53
16,011,071.81
15,464,509.11
17,811,513.62
19,033,241.99
19,001,091.24
19,354,749.45
19,193,995.72
19,386,900.20
19,579,804.68
20,833,683.80
22,344,768.89
24,241,662.94
25,495,542.05
27,038,777.89
29,707,289.86
33,115,269.00
35,365,821.26
37,616,373.52
39,545,418.32
42,117,478.05
34,722,806.33
36,008,836.19
28,807,068.95
26,138,556.99
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
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1944
1945
1946
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1949
1950
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1952
1953
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1981
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1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
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813
762
860
900
932
964
879
883
868
864
965
947
978
1,020
1,050
1,130
1,190
1,230
1,290
1,340
1,390
1,440
1,450
1,420
1,440
1,450
1,480
1,450
1,390
1,350
1,250
1,200
1,210
1,210
1,210
1,210
1,220
1,280
1,340
1,400
1,460
1,530
1,610
1,660
1,870
2,010
2,180
2,160
2,260
2,280
2,260
2,230
2,290
2,450
2,500
2,570
2,590
2,600
2,550
2,540
2,420
2,470
2,370
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$33.85
$34.71
$34.71
$34.71
$34.71
$31.69
$34.72
$34.72
$34.60
$34.84
$35.04
$35.03
$34.99
$34.95
$35.10
$35.10
$35.27
$35.25
$35.23
$35.09
$35.10
$35.12
$35.13
$34.95
$39.31
$41.28
$36.02
$40.62
$58.42
$97.39
154.00
160.86
124.74
147.84
193.40
306.00
615.00
460.00
376.00
424.00
361.00
317.00
368.00
447.00
437.00
381.00
383.51
362.11
343.82
359.77
384.00
383.79
387.81
331.02
294.24
278.98
279.11
271.04
309.73
363.38
409.72
444.74
603.46
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$884,790,153.97
$850,355,739.84
$959,719,076.46
1,004,357,173.04
1,040,067,650.30
$982,178,302.00
$981,204,777.40
$985,669,873.08
$965,576,942.49
$967,794,057.97
1,087,132,485.23
1,066,549,898.77
1,100,205,621.82
1,146,141,965.54
1,184,915,765.94
1,275,195,062.40
1,349,408,630.77
1,393,975,995.71
1,461,145,335.51
1,511,747,395.58
1,568,602,775.87
1,625,953,277.65
1,637,710,805.68
1,595,609,403.01
1,819,938,022.34
1,924,415,088.49
1,713,943,440.95
1,893,646,823.99
2,610,762,796.76
4,227,067,635.35
6,189,018,720.50
6,206,122,917.69
4,852,685,798.37
5,751,331,316.59
7,523,724,814.85
11,904,135,436.12
24,122,705,173.98
18,930,359,598.08
16,198,832,166.94
19,084,683,181.76
16,945,372,503.00
15,593,433,608.47
19,048,674,345.57
23,856,496,992.13
26,273,268,614.05
24,621,363,253.75
26,879,689,566.27
25,146,950,798.86
24,982,197,512.99
26,372,472,957.76
27,901,703,929.34
27,516,271,133.88
28,552,592,579.19
26,074,223,341.85
23,650,089,198.96
23,051,397,286.22
23,241,610,748.33
22,656,759,732.01
25,393,029,398.27
29,674,663,280.75
31,878,185,430.62
35,317,845,915.92
45,982,004,217.47
26,138,556.99
24,498,868.91
27,649,642.08
28,935,671.94
29,964,495.83
30,993,319.72
28,260,506.26
28,389,109.25
27,906,848.05
27,778,245.06
31,025,470.47
30,446,757.03
31,443,430.17
32,793,761.53
33,758,283.93
36,330,343.66
38,259,388.45
39,545,418.32
41,474,463.11
43,082,000.44
44,689,537.77
46,297,075.10
46,618,582.57
45,654,060.17
46,297,075.10
46,618,582.57
47,583,104.97
46,618,582.57
44,689,537.77
43,403,507.91
40,188,433.25
38,580,895.92
38,902,403.39
38,902,403.39
38,902,403.39
38,902,403.39
39,223,910.85
41,152,955.65
43,082,000.44
45,011,045.24
46,940,090.04
49,190,642.30
51,762,702.03
53,370,239.36
60,121,896.14
64,623,000.67
70,088,627.59
69,445,612.66
72,660,687.32
73,303,702.25
72,660,687.32
71,696,164.92
73,625,209.71
78,769,329.17
80,376,866.50
82,627,418.76
83,270,433.69
83,591,941.16
81,984,403.83
81,662,896.36
77,804,806.77
79,412,344.10
76,197,269.44
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2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
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2,360
2,290
2,450
2,500
2,500*
$
695.39
$
871.96
$
972.35
$ 1,224.53
$1,560.85**
$
$
$
$
$
52,763,246,120.49
64,198,237,862.22
76,591,357,218.45
98,423,884,335.25
125,456,232,076.53
75,875,761.98
73,625,209.71
78,769,329.17
80,376,866.50
80,376,866.50
*Estimated value for 2011.

**Cumulative average thru November 22, 2011, http://www.kitco.com/scripts/hist_charts/yearly_graphs.plx.
SOURCE: This table thru 2009 appears here: http://minerals.usgs.gov/ds/2005/140/gold.pdf.
3. But didnt the Spanish get lots and lots of gold from the New World, especially from the Aztecs and
Incas?
In fact, the Spanish got much more silver than gold from the New World. In the 16th century, when production was in full swing, the Spanish only got 154 metric
tons of gold, whereas they got 7440 metric tons of silver. Gold production in the new world for the entire the 16thcentury was thus less than half of what it was
worldwide in 1900. Here is a comparison, decade by decade, of Spanish gold and silver production in the New World in the 16th century:
Year
1503-1510
value in millions of pesos

1.18
gold (in metric tons)

5
silver (in metric tons)

0
1511-1520
1521-1530
1531-1540
1541-1550
1551-1560
1561-1570
1571-1580
1581-1590
1591-1600
2.18
1.17
5.58
10.46
17.86
25.34
29.15
53.2
69.6
9.2
4.9
14.5
25
42.6
11.5
9.4
12.1
19.5
0
0
86
178
303
943
1119
2103
2708
SOURCE: http://mygeologypage.ucdavis.edu/cowen/~GEL115/115ch8.html
4. How much gold, really, is 165,000 metric tons (the total mined throughout human history) and 2,500
metric tons (the total thats currently mined annually)?
An Olympic swimming pool is 50 by 25 by 2 meters. It therefore contains 2,500 cubic meters of water. Each cubic meter of water is one metric ton. Gold is 19.3
times as dense as water. Therefore an Olympic swimming pool would contain 48,250 metric tons of gold. It follows that 3.42 Olympic-sized swimming pools could
contain all the gold thats ever been mined. Another way to imagine this is to think of all the gold in the world ever mined as a single cube. That would be a cube
with each side just over 20 meters, or 67 feet, in length. Given that about 2,500 metric tons of gold is mined each year, this annual production of gold would fit in a
cube whose sides were 5 meters, or 16.6 feet, in length. All the production of gold in the world for a given year would thus fit in a 20 by 30 foot room with an 8 foot
ceiling.
5. Given 165,000 metric tons as an upper bound on available gold, how much does that leave to each
human on the planet?
Humanity has just hit the 7 billion mark. That leaves just under 24 grams of gold to each person on planet earth, or .76 troy ounces or .83 ordinary ounces per
person. In an ordinary male gold wedding band at 18-karat purity, there are about 5 grams of pure gold. That means every person on planet earth could own about 5
gold rings. At the current price of $1,750.00 per troy ounce of gold, that leaves $1,326.00 in gold for each person on planet earth. Gold production has increased by
a factor of 2.1 from 1959 to 2010. At the same time, the world population has been multiplied by a factor 2.2. Thus we produced more or less the same amount of
gold per inhabitant as in 1959. [QUOTE SOURCE: http://news.goldseek.com/Dani/1309290922.php)
6. How does the gold thats mined get used?

52 percent gets used for jewelry, 18 percent constitute official holdings (as in central banks of nations), 16 percent take the form of investments, 12 percent find
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52 percent gets used for jewelry, 18 percent constitute official holdings (as in central banks of nations), 16 percent take the form of investments, 12 percent find
industrial uses, leaving 2 percent unaccounted for.
SOURCE: http://dollardaze.org/blog/?post_id=00479&cat_id=20
7. Which nations consume the most gold?

Since jewelry is the most common use of gold, gold consumption worldwide is most easily gauged by gold jewelry consumption. India is in this respect far and
away the biggest consumer of gold. Here are the data for 2009 and 2010 of gold jewelry consumption by country in metric tons:
Country
India
Greater China
United States
Turkey
Saudi Arabia
Russia
United Arab Emirates
Egypt
Indonesia
United Kingdom
2010
745.7
428
128.61
74.07
72.95
67.5
63.37
53.43
32.75
27.35
2009
442.37
376.96
150.28
75.16
77.75
60.12
67.6
56.68
41
31.75
% Change
69
14
-14
-1
-6
12
-6
-6
-20
-14
Other Gulf Countries

Japan
South Korea
Vietnam
Thailand
Total
Other Countries
World Total
21.97
18.5
15.87
14.36
6.28
1805.6
254
2059.6
24.1
21.85
18.83
15.08
7.33
1508.7
251.6
1760.3
-10
-15
-16
-5
-14
20
1
17
SOURCE: See Full Year 2010 Gold Demand Trends Report available
at http://www.gold.org/media/press_releases/archive/2011/02/global_gold_demand_in_2010_reached_a_10_year_high_in_tonnage_and_all_time_high_in_value/
well as http://www.forexyard.com/en/news/Gold-jewellery-consumption-by-country-2011-02-28T130619Z-FACTBOX.
8. Where does the worlds gold get produced?

Here is the breakdown of 100 top gold-producing nations in the world for 2009. China sits at the top, with the United States the runner up:
1
2
3
4
2009 Production by Country

China
United States
Australia
South Africa
2009 (in kilograms)

320,000
223,000
222,000
197,698
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Russian Federation
Peru
Indonesia
Canada
Uzbekistan
Ghana
Papua New Guinea
Brazil
Mexico
Colombia
Argentina
Mali
Chile
Tanzania, United Republic Of
Philippines
Kazakhstan
Guinea
Kyrgyzstan
Burkina Faso
New Zealand
Suriname
Turkey
Venezuela
Mongolia
Guatemala
Guyana
Mauritania
Japan
Finland
Bolivia
Cte D'ivoire
Senegal
Saudi Arabia
Sweden
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Zimbabwe
Bulgaria
Spain
Nicaragua
Ethiopia
Viet Nam
Thailand
India
Malaysia
Uruguay
Honduras
Ecuador
Namibia
Congo, The Democratic Republic Of The
Korea, Democratic People's Republic Of
French Guiana
Niger
Georgia
Botswana
Sudan
Cameroon
Uganda
Zambia
France
Tajikistan
Morocco
Denmark
Fiji
190,693
182,391
130,000
97,367
90,000
86,000
66,000
60,000
51,393
47,837
47,000
42,000
40,834
40,000
37,047
22,000
18,083
16,950
13,500
13,442
12,193
12,000
10,500
9,803
8,485
8,183
8,000
7,000
7,000
7,000
6,573
5,600
5,500
5,000
5,000
4,200
4,200
3,450
3,400
3,400
3,000
3,000
2,800
2,794
2,180
2,127
2,092
2,022
2,000
2,000
2,000
2,000
2,000
2,000
1,922
1,600
1,600
1,500
1,500
1,361
1,200
1,117
1,040
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Fiji
Algeria
Armenia
Poland
Panama
Burundi
Liberia
Mozambique
Serbia
Costa Rica
Greece
Italy
Iran, Islamic Republic Of
Romania
Azerbaijan
Gabon
Kenya
Nigeria
Sierra Leone
Equatorial Guinea
Slovakia
United Kingdom
Korea, Republic Of
Dominican Republic
Myanmar
Chad
Congo
Madagascar
Eritrea
Oman
Rwanda
Benin
Central African Republic
Belize
1,040
1,010
944
814
800
750
600
511
500
500
500
450
400
400
353
300
300
200
200
200
200
185
175
173
100
100
100
70
30
28
20
20
10
5
SOURCES: http://www.indexmundi.com/minerals/?
product=gold&graph=production and http://www.indexmundi.com/en/commodities/minerals/gold/gold_t8.html. See
also http://www.dani2989.com/gold/goldproduction2011gb.html.
9. Whats happening with gold prices?

The trend since 1900 has been rising gold prices with occasional sharp volatility. See the table in question 2 for the history of gold prices from 1900 to the present.
Here is a graph of gold prices over the last fifty years, which includes also gold prices adjusted for inflation:
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SOURCES: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gold_price_in_USD.png and http://minerals.usgs.gov/ds/2005/140/gold.pdf.

Heres whats happened with gold prices in the last decade:
SOURCE: http://www.kitco.com.
Heres whats happened with gold in the last year (2011):
SOURCE: http://www.kitco.com.
10. Whos got the gold thats used for monetary and investment purposes and how much of this type of
gold is out there?
In 2011, about 2,100 metric tons of gold appeared in what are known as exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The lions share was in one fund: 1,240 metric tons in
SPDR Gold Shares (http://www.spdrgoldshares.com). As of 2009, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) held 3,217 metric tons of gold. In 2010, the central banks
of nations held a total of 28,398 metric tons of gold. Here is the breakdown:
Gold Reserves in Central
Banks
1
United States USA
Germany
metric tons
% of
value @ $1750 per
forex
troy oz.
reserves
74.70% $457,621,670,574.43
8,133.50
71.70% $191,353,206,076.55
3,401.00
3
Italy
71.40% $137,947,600,899.29
2,451.80
France
66.10% $137,024,874,471.87
2,435.40
China
1.70%
$59,307,678,484.36
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China
1.70%
$59,307,678,484.36
1,054.10
6
Switzerland
16.40% $58,519,985,192.66
1,040.10
Qatar
7.10%
$53,467,495,364.47
6.70%
$43,615,702,837.56
3.00%
$43,053,064,772.06
950.30
8
Russia
775.20
Japan
765.20
10 Netherlands
59.40% $34,630,372,931.53
615.50
11 India
8.10%
$34,590,988,266.94
4.60%
$26,269,571,278.20
614.80
12 Republic of China (Taiwan)
466.90
13 Portugal
81.10% $23,720,820,841.48
421.60
14 Venezuela
52.40% $22,567,412,807.21
401.10
15 Saudi Arabia
3.00%
$18,167,583,135.00
0.00%
$18,004,418,096.00
322.90
16 Iran -- Islamic Republic of Iran
320.00
17 United Kingdom
16.80% $17,458,659,172.47
310.30
18 Lebanon
27.60% $16,879,141,965.00
300.00
19 Spain
38.60% $15,843,887,924.48
281.60
20 Austria
56.20% $15,753,865,834.00
280.00
21 Belgium
36.80% $12,800,015,990.13
227.50
22 Pakistan
19.20% $10,375,045,927.82
184.40
23 Philippines
14.00% $9,896,803,572.15
175.90
24 Algeria
4.50%
$9,767,396,817.08
5.60%
$8,090,735,381.89
2.50%
$7,168,008,954.47
173.60
25 Libya
143.80
26 Singapore
127.40
27 Sweden
11.10% $7,072,360,483.34
125.70
28 South Africa
12.20% $7,027,349,438.10
124.90
29 Turkey
6.00%
$6,532,227,940.46
116.10
30 Greece
78.70% $6,284,667,191.64
111.70
31 Romania
9.10%
$5,834,556,739.24
4.50%
$5,789,545,694.00
3.80%
$5,632,007,035.66
2.50%
$5,598,248,751.73
8.10%
$4,495,478,143.35
103.70
32 Poland
102.90
33 Mexico
100.10
34 Thailand
99.50
35 Australia
79.90
36 Kuwait
13.50% $4,444,840,717.45
79.00
37 Egypt
8.70%
$4,253,543,775.18
3.60%
$4,112,884,258.81
75.60
38 Indonesia
73.10
39 Kazakhstan
10.00% $3,786,554,180.82
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39 Kazakhstan
10.00% $3,786,554,180.82
67.30
40 Denmark
3.30%
$3,741,543,135.58
4.50%
$3,077,630,218.29
66.50
41 Argentina
54.70
42 Finland
20.60% $2,762,552,901.61
49.10
43 Bulgaria
9.90%
$2,244,925,881.35
1.50%
$2,048,002,558.42
3.60%
$1,952,354,087.29
39.90
44 Malaysia
36.40
45 Peru
34.70
46 Belarus
24.50% $1,800,441,809.60
32.00
47 Brazil
0.50%
$1,890,463,900.08
33.60
48 Slovakia
65.40% $1,789,189,048.29
31.80
49 Bolivia
13.40% $1,592,265,725.37
28.30
50 Ukraine
3.50%
$1,530,375,538.16
27.20
51 Ecuador
31.00% $1,479,738,112.27
26.30
52 Syria
0.00%
$1,451,606,208.99
4.20%
$1,237,803,744.10
0.00%
$1,204,045,460.17
25.80
53 Morocco
22.00
54 Nigeria
21.40
55 Sri Lanka Sri Lanka
11.90% $984,616,614.63
17.50
56 South Korea South Korea
0.20%
$810,198,814.32
14.40
57 Cyprus
50.80% $782,066,911.05
13.90
58 Bangladesh
5.20%
$759,561,388.43
4.20%
$737,055,865.81
13.50
59 Serbia
13.10
60 Netherlands Antilles
36.30% $737,055,865.81
13.10
61 Jordan
4.30%
$720,176,723.84
1.20%
$714,550,343.19
12.80
62 Czech Republic
12.70
63 Cambodia
14.40% $697,671,201.22
12.40
64 Laos
36.50% $495,121,497.64
8.80
65 Latvia
4.00%
$433,231,310.44
7.70
66 El Salvador
10.60% $410,725,787.82
7.30
67 Guatemala
5.30%
$388,220,265.20
1.10%
$388,220,265.20
6.90
68 Colombia
6.90
69 Republic of Macedonia,
Former Yugoslav Republic of 6.80
Macedonia
70 Tunisia
6.80
71 Ireland
6.00
72 Lithuania
5.80
12.70% $382,593,884.54
0.00%
$382,593,884.54
11.80% $337,582,839.30
3.80%
$326,330,077.99
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5.80
73 Bahrain
0.00%
$264,439,890.79
6.80%
$219,428,845.55
0.20%
$191,296,942.27
0.00%
$185,670,561.62
4.70
74 Mauritius
3.90
75 Canada
3.40
76 Tajikistan
3.30
77 Slovenia
13.40% $180,044,180.96
3.20
78 Aruba
17.70% $174,417,800.31
3.10
79 Hungary
0.30%
$174,417,800.31
6.50%
$146,285,897.03
3.10
80 Kyrgyzstan
2.60
81 Luxembourg
11.70% $123,780,374.41
2.20
82 Hong Kong
0.00%
$118,153,993.76
2.10
83 Suriname
11.40% $112,527,613.10
2.00
84 Iceland
1.60%
$112,527,613.10
2.90%
$112,527,613.10
0.80%
$106,901,232.45
2.80%
$90,022,090.48
1.10%
$90,022,090.48
1.20%
$50,637,425.90
2.40%
$50,637,425.90
0.00%
$39,384,664.59
0.70%
$39,384,664.59
1.00%
$33,758,283.93
0.80%
$22,505,522.62
6.20%
$22,505,522.62
8.40%
$16,879,141.97
2.40%
$16,879,141.97
0.40%
$16,879,141.97
0.10%
$16,879,141.97
0.00%
$11,252,761.31
2.00
85 Papua New Guinea
2.00
86 Trinidad and Tobago
1.90
87 Albania
1.60
88 Yemen
1.60
89 Cameroon
0.90
90 Mongolia
0.90
91 Honduras
0.70
92 Paraguay
0.70
93 Dominican Republic
0.60
94 Gabon
0.40
95 Malawi
0.40
96 Central African Republic
0.30
97 Chad
0.30
98 Republic of the Congo
0.30
99 Uruguay
0.30
100 Fiji
0.20
SOURCES: http://www.gold.org/investment/statistics/reserve_asset_statistics and http://af.reuters.com/article/southAfricaNews/idAFLDE7551YW20110606.
================
ADDITIONAL SOURCES:
http://money.howstuffworks.com/question213.htm [neat article on the worlds gold, titled All the Gold in the World, provides some background for this
infographic]
http://www.forbes.com/sites/afontevecchia/2010/11/19/how-many-olympic-sized-swimming-pools-can-we-fill-with-billionaire-gold [describes how worlds gold
fills 3.27 Olympic-sized swimming pools with gold, at 157,000 metric tons of above-ground gold in 2007 these numbers have since increased, as reflected above]
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