Activity Lesson 3

Germany hold 3364 Tons of gold
for actually about 182,2 bn USD

USA has 8134 tonnes in gold
35,274 ounces in one tonne
which is 286,918,716 total ounces
current price for gold per ounce is $1709 on 6/6
$490,344,085,644 in USD

Taiwan: 422 Tons Goldreserve
Germany: 3.364 - second on the list worldwide (which I doubt…)

Dont understand WHY gold-producing countries have in comparison very little Goldreserve, like:
Canada: 0 ??
Australia: 79.9 only
Myanmar: 7.3 (was for decades poorest countr in Asia - perhapy a lot went to China…also do not trust the numver for China: probably much higher)
But how come that countries with great recourses / lots of gold-mining do not keep their wealth / backup in gold? Canada is most surprising on this list…

UK - 310 tonnes - 310,000 kg - 310,000,000 grams
310,000,000 / 31.1gr (one oz) * $1,700 an oz = around $16,945 Billions

Canada 0:

https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2019/11/official-international-reserves---november-5-2019.html

Belgium holds 227 Tons of gold.
At current gold price of 53.137,36 USD/kg that means 12.289.180.720‬ USD worth of Gold

Zimbabwe’s information is not on list.

My country India has 642 tonnes of gold reserves as of 2020. The current value of this Gold reserve at today’s prices is $34770 million.

Using the website below, find out how much gold your country’s central bank currently holds in its reserves.
https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/gold-reserves
Post the amount in tonnes and calculate the total current value in USD.
US - 8,133.50 tonnes in gold.
1 tonnie = 35,274 ounces
35,274 (ounces)* 1,680.89 (price of gold as of June 7, 2020)
= 59,291,713.86 (Per Tonne)
59,291,713.86 (Cost) * 8,133.50 (tonnies of gold) = 482,249,154,680.31(USD)

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8134 Tonnes
$438,281,000,000

USA holds 8134 Tonnes
1t=32,000 oz
8134x32000=260,288,000 oz.
Gold = $1683.83 per oz
260288000 x 1683.83= $438,281,000,000

Chile has 0.25 metric tons of gold
8,818.49 ounces of gold
x
$1682 / ounce price
= $14,832,700.2 total value of gold

Australia 79.9 Mar/20 Tonnes
Worth $4,347,255,929 US

[Australia]79.9 68.74 Mar/20 Tonnes

Worth $4,347,255,929 USD

my country Zimbabwe is not there in the report

I live in the United States.

Amount of gold in tonnes: Currently 8,134

I did not know how to calculate that amount into USD, but it is estimated to be over $523 billion. (Please forgive me for taking the answer from someone else. I simply could not figure it out in my head.)

US has 8134 tonnes which is currently $486,642,006,442.96 USD

UK 310 tonnes
Gold spot price now $54,391.15/kg x1000 (to make tonne) = $54,391,150.00/tonne
x 310 = $16,861,256,500

The US has 8134 tonnes of gold in its reserves. Current prices of gold are ~$1700/oz. There are 32,150.7 ounces/ton. That means 1 ton of gold = $54,656,190.

For the total supply of tonnes of gold in our reserves, we have $444,573,449,460 worth of gold.

8134 here in the US and thats about $523 billion

I could be slightly wrong but I’ve worked out if Britain has 303 tons of Gold, $1700 cost per ounce of gold 32,000 ounces in a ton, UK Gold value around 1.7 trillion USD… Correct?