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Gold overtook euro as global reserve asset in 2024, ECB says

Bullion second only to US dollar after record central bank purchases

Gold has overtaken the euro as the world’s second most important reserve asset for central banks, driven by record purchases and soaring prices, according to the European Central Bank.

Bullion accounted for 20 per cent of global official reserves last year, outstripping the euro’s 16 per cent and second only to the US dollar at 46 per cent, data from an ECB report published on Wednesday showed.

“Central banks continued to accumulate gold at a record pace,” the ECB wrote, adding that central banks for the third year in a row acquired more than 1,000 tonnes of gold in 2024, a fifth of the total global annual production and twice the annual amount in the decade of the 2010s.

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