WORLD GOLD · TRADE RANKINGS

Top gold importing and exporting countries

A live ranking built from customs declarations (UN Comtrade, HS 7108): toggle imports/exports, pick a year from 2020–2024, or open a single country's timeline.

  1. 1China$102.7B1,381 t
  2. 2United Kingdom$76.6B992 t
  3. 3Hong Kong$65.4B886 t
  4. 4Singapore$17.6B316 t
  5. 5Turkey$17.1B
  6. 6Thailand$15.4B
  7. 7Italy$10.3B208 t
  8. 8Canada$9.6B212 t
  9. 9Saudi Arabia$8.2B
  10. 10Australia$6.5B
  11. 11Germany$6B85 t
  12. 12Indonesia$4.6B
  13. 13Malaysia$4B
  14. 14South Korea$2.3B
  15. 15South Africa$1.1B15.5 t
  16. 16Kazakhstan$541.2M7 t
  17. 17Japan$500.4M9.2 t
  18. 18Poland$454.3M6 t
  19. 19Netherlands$420.8M
  20. 20Spain$409.4M
  21. 21Czechia$230.6M
  22. 22Cambodia$165.2M2.5 t
  23. 23Mexico$131.6M
  24. 24Serbia$102.6M1.3 t
  25. 25Uzbekistan$55M
  26. 26Ghana$12.5M
  27. 27Brazil$6.9M
  28. 28Kyrgyzstan$1.8M0 t

Coverage: data available for 28 of 35 tracked countries (some do not report to Comtrade for the selected year).

Frequently asked questions

Why yearly rankings instead of weekly or monthly?

Weekly customs statistics do not exist in any official source. Monthly Comtrade data is patchy and delayed, so the honest comparable cut is annual (HS 7108). The latest year reaches the UN database with up to a year of lag.

What is HS 7108?

The Harmonized System code for gold (unwrought, semi-manufactured and powder). Customs agencies worldwide classify cross-border gold shipments under it — these declarations are what UN Comtrade aggregates.

Why aren't all countries in the ranking?

We show the ranking among the 35 countries this platform tracks (the same set as the globe and country pages) and state the data coverage under the table. Some countries skip reporting to Comtrade in certain years — those cells are marked missing, not estimated.

Source: UN Comtrade public preview. Values can be aggregated or estimated; methodology — here.