Gold Per Capita
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Gold per capita in Asia

Singapore leads broad gold holdings per capita in Asia among 33 eligible countries at 2.69 fine troy ounces per resident.

Countries33
Published measures3
Population basis2026
Current releasegold-research-2026.03-global-v2
33 ranked

Broad gold holdings per capita in Asia

Broad gold per capita combines official monetary gold with country-attributed fund, bullion and jewellery estimates. The broad view is an experimental allocation model. It is useful for directional comparison, not as an audited national balance sheet or a census of resident ownership.

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Broad gold holdings per capita in Asia
RankCountryGrams per residentTroy oz per personTotalPopulation yearStatus
1SingaporeAsia83.632.69494 t2026Based on country-specific evidence
2TürkiyeAsia57.3081.845,039 t2026Based on regional and peer-country estimates
3South KoreaAsia57.0841.842,946 t2026Based on regional and peer-country estimates
4BruneiAsia50.4231.6223.7 t2026Based on regional and peer-country estimates
5IndonesiaAsia45.3011.4613,042 t2026Based on regional and peer-country estimates
6AzerbaijanAsia44.3051.42463 t2026Based on regional and peer-country estimates
7PhilippinesAsia42.2111.364,969 t2026Based on regional and peer-country estimates
8MongoliaAsia41.9741.35149 t2026Based on regional and peer-country estimates
9Sri LankaAsia40.4511.30944 t2026Based on regional and peer-country estimates
10ArmeniaAsia38.7351.25114 t2026Based on regional and peer-country estimates
11TurkmenistanAsia38.2511.23296 t2026Based on regional and peer-country estimates
12MaldivesAsia36.3321.1719.3 t2026Based on regional and peer-country estimates
13GeorgiaAsia36.0961.16137 t2026Based on regional and peer-country estimates
14MalaysiaAsia35.2761.131,284 t2026Based on regional and peer-country estimates
15VietnamAsia35.1271.133,589 t2026Based on regional and peer-country estimates
16BangladeshAsia30.0380.9665,341 t2026Based on regional and peer-country estimates
17TajikistanAsia28.8050.926316 t2026Based on regional and peer-country estimates
18NepalAsia27.8030.894824 t2026Based on regional and peer-country estimates
19LaosAsia27.2570.876217 t2026Based on regional and peer-country estimates
20MyanmarAsia27.2490.8761,504 t2026Based on regional and peer-country estimates
21BhutanAsia26.9640.86721.6 t2026Based on regional and peer-country estimates
22PakistanAsia25.5840.8236,634 t2026Based on regional and peer-country estimates
23KyrgyzstanAsia24.9180.801184 t2026Based on regional and peer-country estimates
24CambodiaAsia24.0730.774435 t2026Based on regional and peer-country estimates
25Timor-LesteAsia23.9470.7734.4 t2026Based on regional and peer-country estimates
26ThailandAsia23.6520.761,693 t2026Based on regional and peer-country estimates
27KazakhstanAsia21.4860.691453 t2026Based on regional and peer-country estimates
28IndiaAsia17.5770.56525,955 t2026Based on regional and peer-country estimates
29ChinaAsia16.9360.54423,929 t2026Based on regional and peer-country estimates
30North KoreaAsia14.3170.46381 t2026Based on regional and peer-country estimates
31JapanAsia13.4860.4341,651 t2026Based on country-specific evidence
32UzbekistanAsia12.0210.386454 t2026Based on regional and peer-country estimates
33AfghanistanAsia11.1590.359503 t2026Based on regional and peer-country estimates
8 ranked

Official gold reserves per capita in Asia

Official gold reserves per capita divide monetary gold held by a reporting authority by the country's resident population. This comparison uses the 29 official-reserve records in the current dataset and excludes private bars, coins, funds and jewellery.

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Official gold reserves per capita in Asia
RankCountryGrams per residentTroy oz per personTotalPopulation year
1SingaporeAsia38.7591.25229 t2026
2KazakhstanAsia14.5140.467306 t2026
3UzbekistanAsia9.7150.312367 t2026
4TürkiyeAsia7.0960.228624 t2026
5JapanAsia6.910.222846 t2026
6ThailandAsia3.2770.105235 t2026
7ChinaAsia1.6270.05232,299 t2026
8IndiaAsia0.5960.0192880 t2026
8 ranked

Gold investment holdings per capita in Asia

This research view adds physically backed funds, bars and coins to official monetary gold where the release has an eligible country anchor. Fund domicile, vault location and beneficial ownership can differ. These results are country-attributed estimates rather than surveyed household balances.

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Gold investment holdings per capita in Asia
RankCountryGrams per residentTroy oz per personTotalPopulation yearStatus
1SingaporeAsia71.7782.31424 t2026Based on country-specific evidence
2TürkiyeAsia44.7981.443,939 t2026Based on country-specific evidence
3KazakhstanAsia17.6910.569373 t2026Based on country-specific evidence
4ThailandAsia16.6640.5361,193 t2026Based on country-specific evidence
5JapanAsia10.8720.351,331 t2026Based on country-specific evidence
6UzbekistanAsia10.2980.331389 t2026Based on country-specific evidence
7ChinaAsia9.8580.31713,929 t2026Based on country-specific evidence
8IndiaAsia6.0650.1958,955 t2026Based on country-specific evidence
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Country records in Asia

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