The Scale of Gold · By country
Every nation’s gold, as a single cube
The same dense truth, scaled across the world. The 38 biggest holders each get a page rendering their reserve as a cube beside a person; below them, every other reporting nation is listed by the numbers. The bar shows the cube’s edge in meters.
The world’s gold, ranked
Tap any nation to see its reserve drawn to scale.
- #1
United States 7.5 m 8,134 t - #2
Germany 5.6 m 3,350 t - #3
Italy 5.0 m 2,452 t - #4
France 5.0 m 2,437 t - #5
China 4.9 m 2,313 t - #6
Russia 4.9 m 2,305 t - #7
Switzerland 3.8 m 1,040 t - #8
India 3.6 m 881 t - #9
Japan 3.5 m 846 t - #10
Netherlands 3.2 m 613 t - #11
Poland 3.1 m 582 t - #12
Turkey 3.0 m 535 t - #13
Uzbekistan 2.8 m 416 t - #14
Portugal 2.7 m 383 t - #15
Kazakhstan 2.6 m 354 t - #16
Saudi Arabia 2.6 m 323 t - #17
United Kingdom 2.5 m 310 t - #18
Lebanon 2.5 m 287 t - #19
Spain 2.4 m 282 t - #20
Austria 2.4 m 280 t - #21
Thailand 2.3 m 235 t - #22
Belgium 2.3 m 227 t - #23
Azerbaijan 2.2 m 200 t - #24
Singapore 2.2 m 194 t - #25
Iraq 2.1 m 175 t - #26
Algeria 2.1 m 174 t - #27
Brazil 2.1 m 172 t - #28
Libya 2.0 m 147 t - #29
Philippines 1.9 m 134 t - #30
Egypt 1.9 m 130 t - #31
Sweden 1.9 m 126 t - #32
South Africa 1.9 m 126 t - #33
Mexico 1.8 m 120 t - #34
Qatar 1.8 m 115 t - #35
Greece 1.8 m 115 t - #36
Hungary 1.8 m 110 t - #37
South Korea 1.8 m 104 t - #38
Romania 1.8 m 104 t
Every other reporting nation
78 more countries hold gold but in smaller amounts — their cubes range from roughly head height down to the size of a brick. Listed by the numbers (no separate page).
- Taiwan 2.8 m 424 t
- Venezuela 2.0 m 162 t
- Indonesia 1.6 m 86 t
- Australia 1.6 m 80 t
- Kuwait 1.6 m 79 t
- United Arab Emirates 1.6 m 75 t
- Jordan 1.5 m 72 t
- Czechia 1.5 m 72 t
- Denmark 1.5 m 67 t
- Pakistan 1.5 m 65 t
- Argentina 1.5 m 62 t
- Cambodia 1.4 m 54 t
- Belarus 1.4 m 54 t
- Serbia 1.4 m 53 t
- Kyrgyzstan 1.3 m 46 t
- Finland 1.3 m 44 t
- Bulgaria 1.3 m 43 t
- Malaysia 1.3 m 39 t
- Peru 1.2 m 35 t
- Slovakia 1.2 m 32 t
- Ukraine 1.1 m 27 t
- Ecuador 1.1 m 26 t
- Syrian Arab Republic 1.1 m 26 t
- Bolivia 1.1 m 23 t
- Morocco 1.0 m 22 t
- Afghanistan 1.0 m 22 t
- Nigeria 1.0 m 21 t
- Ghana 1.0 m 19 t
- Bangladesh 0.9 m 14 t
- Cyprus 0.9 m 14 t
- Guatemala 0.9 m 13 t
- Mauritius 0.9 m 12 t
- Ireland 0.9 m 12 t
- Tajikistan 0.8 m 8 t
- Paraguay 0.8 m 8 t
- Nepal 0.7 m 8 t
- Mongolia 0.7 m 8 t
- Georgia 0.7 m 7 t
- North Macedonia 0.7 m 7 t
- Tunisia 0.7 m 7 t
- Oman 0.7 m 7 t
- Latvia 0.7 m 7 t
- Guinea 0.7 m 6 t
- Lithuania 0.7 m 6 t
- Colombia 0.6 m 5 t
- Bahrain 0.6 m 5 t
- Brunei Darussalam 0.6 m 5 t
- Slovenia 0.6 m 4 t
- Zimbabwe 0.6 m 4 t
- Mozambique 0.6 m 4 t
- Albania 0.6 m 4 t
- Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.6 m 3 t
- Aruba 0.5 m 3 t
- Luxembourg 0.5 m 2 t
- Hong Kong SAR 0.5 m 2 t
- Iceland 0.5 m 2 t
- Papua New Guinea 0.5 m 2 t
- Trinidad and Tobago 0.5 m 2 t
- Haiti 0.5 m 2 t
- El Salvador 0.5 m 2 t
- Yemen 0.4 m 2 t
- Suriname 0.4 m 1 t
- Lao People's Democratic Republic 0.4 m 1 t
- Honduras 0.3 m 1 t
- Dominican Rep. 0.3 m 1 t
- Sri Lanka 0.3 m 0 t
- Malawi 0.3 m 0 t
- Malta 0.3 m 0 t
- Mauritania 0.3 m 0 t
- Chile 0.2 m 0 t
- Estonia 0.2 m 0 t
- Bhutan 0.2 m 0 t
- Uruguay 0.2 m 0 t
- Moldova 0.2 m 0 t
- Burundi 0.1 m 0 t
- Fiji 0.1 m 0 t
- Comoros 0.1 m 0 t
- Kenya 0.1 m 0 t
The top-38 figures are World Gold Council · IMF IFS, as of May 2026. The smaller holders above are IMF-reported (International Financial Statistics) and use the latest available year — they can differ slightly from World Gold Council estimates and update on a lag. Cube edge from gold’s density (19.32 g/cm³): mass → volume → edge. Methodology.