The following is a list of countries by gold exports. Data is for 2018, in millions of United States dollars, as reported by The Observatory of Economic Complexity. [1] Currently twenty countries, as of 2018, are listed (their 2012 and 2016 figures are also provided).
# | Country | Value in 2012 | Value in 2016 | Value in 2018 |
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1 | Switzerland | 52,519 | 67,367 | 63,781 |
2 | United Kingdom | 3,326 | 14,920 | 25,772 |
3 | United States | 27,154 | 19,749 | 18,138 |
4 | South Africa | 20,436 | 20,670 | 17,882 |
5 | Australia | 13,530 | 20,498 | 16,091 |
6 | United Arab Emirates | 14,745 | 26,979 | 15,369 |
7 | Canada | 3,730 | 6,415 | 12,921 |
8 | Hong Kong | 48,312 | 29,334 | 12,076 |
9 | Singapore | 4,640 | 5,537 | 10,128 |
10 | Ghana | 7,203 | 9,411 | 10,030 |
11 | Japan | 6,122 | 8,599 | 7,293 |
12 | Peru | 9,686 | 6,251 | 7,076 |
13 | Mexico | 8,379 | 5,388 | 4,824 |
14 | Germany | 11,037 | 5,017 | 4,665 |
15 | Thailand | 6,451 | 6,942 | 4,414 |
16 | Burkina Faso | 274 | 3,019 | 4,281 |
17 | Turkey | 13,152 | 12,011 | 3,209 |
18 | Brazil | 3,080 | 3,346 | 2,973 |
19 | Guinea | 354 | 1,541 | 2,789 |
20 | Venezuela | 285 | 2,922 | 2,710 |
The Observatory of Economic Complexity (OEC) is a data visualization site for international trade data created by the Macro Connections group at the MIT Media Lab. The goal of the observatory is to distribute international trade data in a visual form. At present the observatory serves more than 20 million interactive visualizations, connecting hundreds of countries to their export destinations and to the products that they trade.
The Economic Complexity Index (ECI) is a holistic measure of the productive capabilities of large economic systems, usually cities, regions, or countries. In particular, the ECI looks to explain the knowledge accumulated in a population and that is expressed in the economic activities present in a city, country, or region. To achieve this goal, the ECI defines the knowledge available in a location, as the average knowledge of the activities present in it, and the knowledge of an activity as the average knowledge of the places where that economic activity is conducted. The product equivalent of the Economic Complexity Index is the Product Complexity Index or PCI.