Gold Per Capita
North America regional rankings

Gold per capita in North America

Canada leads broad gold holdings per capita in North America among 23 eligible countries at 1.32 fine troy ounces per resident.

Countries23
Published measures3
Population basis2026
Current releasegold-research-2026.03-global-v2
23 ranked

Broad gold holdings per capita in North America

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 North America
RankCountryGrams per residentTroy oz per personTotalPopulation yearStatus
1CanadaNorth America41.021.321,660 t2026Based on country-specific evidence
2BarbadosNorth America36.1231.1610.2 t2026Based on regional and peer-country estimates
3United StatesNorth America36.0521.1612,584 t2026Based on country-specific evidence
4Antigua and BarbudaNorth America34.0211.093.2 t2026Based on regional and peer-country estimates
5Saint Kitts and NevisNorth America33.8471.091.6 t2026Based on regional and peer-country estimates
6Trinidad and TobagoNorth America33.3321.0750.4 t2026Based on regional and peer-country estimates
7PanamaNorth America32.5221.05150 t2026Based on regional and peer-country estimates
8BahamasNorth America30.1410.96912.2 t2026Based on regional and peer-country estimates
9Costa RicaNorth America29.6160.952153 t2026Based on regional and peer-country estimates
10Dominican RepublicNorth America27.7310.892322 t2026Based on regional and peer-country estimates
11GuatemalaNorth America27.0590.87513 t2026Based on regional and peer-country estimates
12GrenadaNorth America26.4210.8493.1 t2026Based on regional and peer-country estimates
13JamaicaNorth America26.320.84674.6 t2026Based on regional and peer-country estimates
14Saint LuciaNorth America26.1950.8424.7 t2026Based on regional and peer-country estimates
15Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesNorth America25.3620.8152.5 t2026Based on regional and peer-country estimates
16CubaNorth America24.8770.8271 t2026Based on regional and peer-country estimates
17El SalvadorNorth America24.0350.773154 t2026Based on regional and peer-country estimates
18BelizeNorth America22.7490.7319.8 t2026Based on regional and peer-country estimates
19DominicaNorth America22.6060.7271.5 t2026Based on regional and peer-country estimates
20HondurasNorth America17.0670.549191 t2026Based on regional and peer-country estimates
21NicaraguaNorth America16.0890.517114 t2026Based on regional and peer-country estimates
22HaitiNorth America15.7760.507190 t2026Based on regional and peer-country estimates
23MexicoNorth America5.5670.179740 t2026Based on country-specific evidence
3 ranked

Official gold reserves per capita in North America

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 North America
RankCountryGrams per residentTroy oz per personTotalPopulation year
1United StatesNorth America23.3030.7498,134 t2026
2MexicoNorth America0.9050.0291120 t2026
3CanadaNorth America000 t2026
3 ranked

Gold investment holdings per capita in North America

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 North America
RankCountryGrams per residentTroy oz per personTotalPopulation yearStatus
1CanadaNorth America36.5721.181,480 t2026Based on country-specific evidence
2United StatesNorth America33.1871.0711,584 t2026Based on country-specific evidence
3MexicoNorth America3.2360.104430 t2026Based on country-specific evidence
Countries

Country records in North America

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How to use this comparison

Regional and global pages use the same definitions and sources.

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