Top 10 Golden Countries
United States Tonnes: 8,133.5 Percent of foreign reserves: 79% With the largest official holdings in the world, the US lays claim to nearly as much gold as the next three countries combined. It also has the highest gold allocation as a percentage of its foreign reserves at 79 percent. Germany Tonnes: 3,363.6 Percent of foreign reserves: 75.6% In 2017 Germany completed a four-year repatriation operation to move a total of 674 tonnes of gold from the Banque de France and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York back to its own vaults. Italy Tonnes: 2,451.8 Percent of foreign reserves: 71.3% Italy has likewise maintained the size of its reserves over the years, and it has support from European Central Bank (ECB). France Tonnes: 2,436.0 Percent of foreign reserves: 65.5% France’s central bank has sold little of its gold over the past several years, and there are calls to halt it altogether. Russia Tonnes: 2,299.9 Percent of foreign reserves: 23% Th