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How Much Gold Do Central Banks Own? | Gold | Real Vision™

1,910 views · Published 17 July 2018 · 0:34 · Indexed 26 September 2026

Channel: Real Vision Presents · 2018 · News & Politics

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Just how much gold do the world’s central banks own? 

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Full video transcript: By far, the largest above-ground stock of gold resides in the secure vaults of the world's central banks. In total, the top 10 central banks in the world own some 23,000 tons of gold. And the IMF owns another 2,000 tons. This equates to around 12% of all the gold ever mined.

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Transcript: 
But it's not just bars in a vault or rings on fingers. Gold has many other uses. In fact, aside from its monetary and symbolic value, gold is widely used in electronics, electrical wiring, dentistry, medicine, radiation shielding, and to color glass. In fact, more gold can be recovered from a ton of computers from 17 tons of gold ore. Even the human body contains about 0.2 milligrams of gold, which is found mostly in our blood.

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