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
Reserves · May 2026
8,134 t
metric tonnes
Month over month
unchanged
change in holdings
Monthly monetary gold reserves for United States, in metric tonnes, last 15 years.
Germany
Reserves · Apr 2026
3,350 t
metric tonnes
Month over month
unchanged
change in holdings
Monthly monetary gold reserves for Germany, in metric tonnes, last 15 years.
Italy
Reserves · Apr 2026
2,452 t
metric tonnes
Month over month
unchanged
change in holdings
Monthly monetary gold reserves for Italy, in metric tonnes, last 15 years.
France
Reserves · Apr 2026
2,437 t
metric tonnes
Month over month
unchanged
change in holdings
Monthly monetary gold reserves for France, in metric tonnes, last 15 years.
Russia
Reserves · Apr 2026
2,299 t
metric tonnes
Month over month
-6 t
change in holdings
Monthly monetary gold reserves for Russia, in metric tonnes, last 15 years.
China
Reserves · Apr 2026
2,322 t
metric tonnes
Month over month
+9 t
change in holdings
Monthly monetary gold reserves for China, in metric tonnes, last 15 years.
Switzerland
Reserves · Apr 2026
1,040 t
metric tonnes
Month over month
unchanged
change in holdings
Monthly monetary gold reserves for Switzerland, in metric tonnes, last 15 years.
India
Reserves · Apr 2026
881 t
metric tonnes
Month over month
unchanged
change in holdings
Monthly monetary gold reserves for India, in metric tonnes, last 15 years.
Japan
Reserves · May 2026
846 t
metric tonnes
Month over month
unchanged
change in holdings
Monthly monetary gold reserves for Japan, in metric tonnes, last 15 years.
Turkey
Reserves · May 2026
730 t
metric tonnes
Month over month
-2 t
change in holdings
Monthly monetary gold reserves for Turkey, in metric tonnes, last 15 years.
Poland
Reserves · Apr 2026
596 t
metric tonnes
Month over month
+14 t
change in holdings
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.