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Gold jewellery has the highest importance in India. You must have noticed that in Indian weddings or any other ceremony, gold jewellery is the first choice of the women of the house.
Gold is found in greater quantity in India than in many other countries. Men and women both have a craze for wearing gold. Women especially like to wear gold jewellery. In many states of India, women wear gold jewellery even on religious occasions.
According to the report of the World Gold Council, Indian women have about 24,000 tonnes of gold. This gold can be considered the world's largest gold treasure. The WGC report also states that Indian women wear 11 percent of the world's total gold reserves as jewelry. Let us tell you that the gold worn by Indian women is more than the total gold reserves of the top 5 countries of the world.
Let us tell you that women in India use gold the most in South India. South India has 40 percent of the country's total gold, only Tamil Nadu state has 28 percent of the gold. In simple language, women in these states of India have the most gold jewellery.
The US has a total of 8000 tonnes of gold and Germany has 3300 tonnes of gold. Apart from this, Italy has 2450 tonnes, France has 2400 tonnes and Russia has 1900 tonnes of gold.
It is worth noting that India has transferred its 100 tonnes of gold deposited in Britain to domestic vaults in the financial year 2023-24. This is the largest transfer of gold since 1991. Let us tell you that in 1991, a large part of the gold was withdrawn from the Indian treasury for mortgaging to deal with the foreign exchange crisis.
