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Central Bank Gold Reserves ·Data as of May 2026

The 11 tracked official gold holders are net buyers over the 12 months to May 2026, by +28 t

Poland led buyers with +87 t; Turkey trimmed -55 t.

Official reserves by country in metric tonnes, as reported to the IMF's International Financial Statistics.

What this count leaves out

This tracks 11 major official holders and key accumulators only, and the full official sector is far larger. The World Gold Council estimates central banks worldwide bought on the order of 1,000 tonnes of gold over the past year, much of it from China and other buyers that report to the IMF irregularly or aren't tracked here. Figures derive from reported IMF reserve filings, so a quiet reporting stretch understates true buying.

The tracked net change is about 0.8% of world mine production.

Who bought and who sold

The change in each central bank's most recently filed month against the month before it. Reporters file on different lags, so each row is labelled with its own month rather than forced into a shared one. 67 other reporters filed no change.

Added  ·  8 reporters

Poland +14 t Apr 2026
China +9 t Apr 2026
Kazakhstan +6 t Apr 2026
Czechia +2 t May 2026
Jordan +2 t Apr 2026
Cambodia +1 t Feb 2026
Malta +1 t Apr 2026
Uruguay +1 t Apr 2026

Sold  ·  2 reporters

Russia -6 t Apr 2026
Turkey -2 t May 2026

Gold reserves by country

Every one of the 77 monetary authorities that files gold holdings to the IMF, largest first, each at its own most recent reported month.

# Country Reserves Change Reported
1 United States 8,134 t unchanged May 2026
2 Germany 3,350 t unchanged Apr 2026
3 Italy 2,452 t unchanged Apr 2026
4 France 2,437 t unchanged Apr 2026
5 China 2,322 t +9 t Apr 2026
6 Russia 2,299 t -6 t Apr 2026
7 Switzerland 1,040 t unchanged Apr 2026
8 India 881 t unchanged Apr 2026
9 Japan 846 t unchanged May 2026
10 Turkey 730 t -2 t May 2026
11 Netherlands 612 t unchanged May 2026
12 Poland 596 t +14 t Apr 2026
13 European Central Bank 508 t unchanged Apr 2026
14 Portugal 383 t unchanged Apr 2026
15 Kazakhstan 354 t +6 t Apr 2026
16 Saudi Arabia 323 t unchanged Mar 2026
17 United Kingdom 310 t unchanged May 2026
18 Spain 282 t unchanged May 2026
19 Austria 280 t unchanged Apr 2026
20 Belgium 227 t unchanged Apr 2026
21 Singapore 194 t unchanged Apr 2026
22 Brazil 172 t unchanged Feb 2026
23 Philippines 134 t unchanged Apr 2026
24 Egypt 129 t unchanged Feb 2026
25 Sweden 126 t unchanged Apr 2026
26 South Africa 124 t unchanged Apr 2026
27 Mexico 120 t unchanged Apr 2026
28 Greece 115 t unchanged Apr 2026
29 Hungary 110 t unchanged Apr 2026
30 South Korea 105 t unchanged Apr 2026
31 Romania 104 t unchanged May 2026
32 Indonesia 87 t unchanged Apr 2026
33 Czechia 81 t +2 t May 2026
34 Australia 80 t unchanged Apr 2026
35 Jordan 75 t +2 t Apr 2026
36 Denmark 67 t unchanged Apr 2026
37 Argentina 62 t unchanged Apr 2026
38 Cambodia 56 t +1 t Feb 2026
39 Belarus 54 t unchanged May 2026
40 Serbia 54 t unchanged Apr 2026
41 Finland 44 t unchanged Apr 2026
42 Malaysia 44 t unchanged Apr 2026
43 Bulgaria 41 t unchanged Apr 2026
44 Peru 35 t unchanged Feb 2026
45 Ukraine 27 t unchanged Apr 2026
46 Ecuador 26 t unchanged Apr 2026
47 Morocco 22 t unchanged Apr 2026
48 Guatemala 16 t unchanged Apr 2026
49 Cyprus 14 t unchanged Apr 2026
50 Ireland 12 t unchanged Apr 2026
51 Mauritius 12 t unchanged Apr 2026
52 Mongolia 8 t unchanged Feb 2026
53 Paraguay 8 t unchanged Mar 2026
54 Georgia 7 t unchanged May 2026
55 Latvia 7 t unchanged May 2026
56 North Macedonia 7 t unchanged Apr 2026
57 Lithuania 6 t unchanged May 2026
58 Colombia 5 t unchanged May 2026
59 Albania 4 t unchanged Apr 2026
60 Slovenia 4 t unchanged Apr 2026
61 El Salvador 2 t unchanged Apr 2026
62 Hong Kong 2 t unchanged Apr 2026
63 Iceland 2 t unchanged May 2026
64 Luxembourg 2 t unchanged May 2026
65 Dominican Republic 1 t unchanged Mar 2026
66 Honduras 1 t unchanged Apr 2026
67 Malta 1 t +1 t Apr 2026
68 Sri Lanka 1 t unchanged Apr 2026
69 Uruguay 1 t +1 t Apr 2026
70 Armenia 0 t unchanged Mar 2026
71 Chile 0 t unchanged Apr 2026
72 Costa Rica 0 t unchanged Apr 2026
73 Estonia 0 t unchanged May 2026
74 Moldova 0 t unchanged Apr 2026
75 Nicaragua 0 t unchanged Apr 2026
76 Norway 0 t unchanged Apr 2026
77 West Bank and Gaza 0 t unchanged Mar 2026

The European Central Bank is listed as an institution, not a country: it holds gold on its own balance sheet, separate from the euro-area national central banks also listed. Angola files to the IMF but its reported figures are inconsistent with a real holding by roughly four orders of magnitude, so it is excluded rather than published. Brazil's filings from March 2026 carry the same fault and are excluded from that month forward; its earlier history is shown.

United States

Monetary gold

Reserves · May 2026

8,134 t

metric tonnes

Month over month

unchanged

change in holdings

8,134 t8,134 t8,134 t8,134 t8,134 t Sep 2011May 2015Jan 2019Sep 2022May 2026

Monthly monetary gold reserves for United States, in metric tonnes, last 15 years.

Germany

Monetary gold

Reserves · Apr 2026

3,350 t

metric tonnes

Month over month

unchanged

change in holdings

3,350 t3,362 t3,375 t3,388 t3,401 t Sep 2011May 2015Jan 2019Sep 2022Apr 2026

Monthly monetary gold reserves for Germany, in metric tonnes, last 15 years.

Italy

Monetary gold

Reserves · Apr 2026

2,452 t

metric tonnes

Month over month

unchanged

change in holdings

2,452 t2,452 t2,452 t2,452 t2,452 t Sep 2011May 2015Jan 2019Sep 2022Apr 2026

Monthly monetary gold reserves for Italy, in metric tonnes, last 15 years.

France

Monetary gold

Reserves · Apr 2026

2,437 t

metric tonnes

Month over month

unchanged

change in holdings

2,435 t2,435 t2,436 t2,436 t2,437 t Sep 2011May 2015Jan 2019Sep 2022Apr 2026

Monthly monetary gold reserves for France, in metric tonnes, last 15 years.

Russia

Monetary gold

Reserves · Apr 2026

2,299 t

metric tonnes

Month over month

-6 t

change in holdings

852 t1,223 t1,594 t1,965 t2,336 t Sep 2011May 2015Jan 2019Sep 2022Apr 2026

Monthly monetary gold reserves for Russia, in metric tonnes, last 15 years.

China

Monetary gold

Reserves · Apr 2026

2,322 t

metric tonnes

Month over month

+9 t

change in holdings

1,658 t1,824 t1,990 t2,156 t2,322 t Jun 2015Feb 2018Oct 2020Jun 2023Apr 2026

Monthly monetary gold reserves for China, in metric tonnes, last 15 years.

Switzerland

Monetary gold

Reserves · Apr 2026

1,040 t

metric tonnes

Month over month

unchanged

change in holdings

1,040 t1,040 t1,040 t1,040 t1,040 t Sep 2011May 2015Jan 2019Sep 2022Apr 2026

Monthly monetary gold reserves for Switzerland, in metric tonnes, last 15 years.

India

Monetary gold

Reserves · Apr 2026

881 t

metric tonnes

Month over month

unchanged

change in holdings

557 t638 t719 t800 t881 t Sep 2011Apr 2015Nov 2018Jun 2022Apr 2026

Monthly monetary gold reserves for India, in metric tonnes, last 15 years.

Japan

Monetary gold

Reserves · May 2026

846 t

metric tonnes

Month over month

unchanged

change in holdings

765 t785 t805 t825 t846 t Sep 2011May 2015Jan 2019Sep 2022May 2026

Monthly monetary gold reserves for Japan, in metric tonnes, last 15 years.

Turkey

Monetary gold

Reserves · May 2026

730 t

metric tonnes

Month over month

-2 t

change in holdings

116 t296 t476 t656 t837 t Sep 2011May 2015Jan 2019Sep 2022May 2026

Monthly monetary gold reserves for Turkey, in metric tonnes, last 15 years.

Poland

Monetary gold

Reserves · Apr 2026

596 t

metric tonnes

Month over month

+14 t

change in holdings

103 t226 t349 t472 t596 t Sep 2011May 2015Jan 2019Sep 2022Apr 2026

Monthly monetary gold reserves for Poland, in metric tonnes, last 15 years.

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Common questions

What are central-bank monetary gold reserves?
Monetary gold reserves are the physical gold a country's central bank or treasury holds as an official reserve asset, reported in metric tonnes. It is the gold on the monetary authority's own balance sheet — not privately held bullion, jewelry, or gold in the ground. Countries report these holdings to the International Monetary Fund, which publishes them in its International Financial Statistics (IFS).
Why do central banks hold gold?
Central banks hold gold as a reserve asset that carries no credit or counterparty risk and is nobody else's liability, which is why it sits alongside foreign-currency reserves. It is used to diversify away from any single currency, as a long-term store of value, and historically as a backstop of confidence in the national balance sheet. This page reports the holdings; it does not offer a view on what any central bank will do next.
More questions
Which countries hold the most gold?
The United States is by far the largest official holder at roughly 8,100 tonnes, followed by Germany, Italy, and France. Russia and China hold large and, in China's case, steadily growing reserves, while accumulators such as Turkey, India, and Poland have added meaningfully in recent years. This page shows each tracked country's latest reported holding and its full monthly history.
How much gold are central banks buying?
The scoreboard at the top of this page sums the trailing-12-month change in reported holdings across the largest official holders tracked here — showing which added gold and which sold, and the net. This is only the biggest holders, not the whole official sector: the World Gold Council estimates central banks worldwide bought on the order of 1,000 tonnes over the past year, well above the tracked-holder net, because much of the buying comes from China and other banks that report to the IMF irregularly or aren't tracked here. Figures come from IMF reserve reports.
Which central bank is buying the most gold?
The net-demand summary names the tracked country that added the most gold over the trailing 12 months. In recent years the largest accumulators have been emerging-market central banks — China, Turkey, Poland, and India among them — diversifying reserves away from the US dollar, while the big Western holders (the US, Germany, Italy, France) have kept their holdings broadly flat. The figure shown reflects reported changes; a country that reports irregularly can understate its true buying.
How often is this data updated?
The IMF publishes monetary gold reserves monthly through its International Financial Statistics, but reporting runs a month or two behind, so the newest reading here is commonly a month or two old. Each country card labels the exact observation month, and the page refreshes as new IFS data is released.
Data source

Figures are official monetary gold holdings reported by national authorities to the International Monetary Fund's International Financial Statistics (IFS), converted to metric tonnes. Coverage is monthly for the largest holders and key accumulators, published with a one-to-two-month reporting lag. This page reports the holdings; it does not offer investment advice.

Cite this page

The Vault Report. "Central Bank Gold Reserves by Country." https://thevaultreport.com/central-bank-gold (Accessed August 31, 2026).