Countries by Foreign Exchange Reserves 2025
About This Dataset
Countries by Foreign Exchange Reserves 2025
Countries ranked by total foreign exchange and gold reserves held by their central banks in 2025, measured in billions of USD. China holds the world's largest foreign exchange reserves by a vast margin, with over $3 trillion — more than the next five countries combined.
Analysis
The top three in FX Reserves (Billion USD) in 2025 are China (3,300), Japan (1,290) and Switzerland (860). China and Japan together hold 57.6% of the combined total of all 8 entities. The other 6 are bunched between 355 and 860. It takes the next 4 entities (Japan, Switzerland, India, Russia) added together to match China.
Source:
Wikipedia
Key Findings
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China leads in FX Reserves (Billion USD) with 3,300 in 2025.
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Average FX Reserves (Billion USD) in 2025: 996 · median: 640.
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Gap in 2025: China is 9.3× larger than Brazil.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- Wikipedia
- Coverage
- 8 entities · 2025 · 8 observations
- Measure
- FX Reserves (Billion USD)
- Last updated
- 6 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2025.
Data Sources & References
All external sources cited in this dataset
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