In April, the world central banks, according to preliminary data, bought 19.4 tons of gold for foreign exchange reserves (9.4 tons were sold in March), as calculated by the World Gold Council (WGC).

The largest buyers were Uzbekistan (8.7 tons), Turkey (5.6 tons) and Kazakhstan (5.3 tons).

Gold was sold mainly by Germany (0.9 tons), Mexico and the Czech Republic (0.1 tons each).