20-year average return of gold and other assets worldwide 2024
As of December 2024, gold had an average 20-year return rate of 9.47 percent, which was one percent below U.S. stocks with a rate of 10.27 percent.
20-year average return of gold and other assets worldwide as of 2024
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- Performance spread of top and bottom hedge funds 2017, by style
- Projected total returns of selected asset classes 2021-2026
- Leading physically-backed gold ETFs worldwide Q4 2016 by AuM in tonnes
- Leading non-leveraged ETPs in the U.S. 2016, by performance
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- Return on equity of the banking industry in the UK 2012-2021
- Share of gold investments in the global securities volume 1921-2009
- Annual return of Norges Bank Investment Management 1998-2022, by asset class
- Average single online investment amount in gold in China 2018
- Returns of S&P 500 Real Estate Index in the U.S. 2007-2023
- Expenditures of the central bank on the purchase of gold in Poland 2018-2019
- Return rate on various futures in 2014
- Average quarterly consumer demand for gold in Spain Q1 2015 - Q1 2017
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World Gold Council. (January 3, 2025). 20-year average return of gold and other assets worldwide as of 2024 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved April 12, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1061450/gold-other-assets-20-year-average-returns-global/
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