ABU DHABI,— The Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates reported that its gold reserves rose by 64.93 percent in 2025, reaching 37.902 billion dirhams ($10.32 billion) by the end of December.
The figure compares with 22.981 billion dirhams recorded at the end of December 2024.
The bank said its gold holdings also increased on a monthly basis, rising 1.64 percent in December 2025 from 37.291 billion dirhams in November.
The data were included in the Central Bank’s monthly statistical bulletin released today.
The bulletin showed that demand deposits in the UAE banking system exceeded 1.264 trillion dirhams at the end of December 2025, compared with about 1.109 trillion dirhams at the end of December 2024.
Savings deposits stood at 400.51 billion dirhams in December 2025, up from 317.488 billion dirhams a year earlier.
Time deposits topped 1.165 trillion dirhams at the end of December 2025, compared with 945.78 billion dirhams at the close of December 2024, according to the Central Bank’s figures.
In February 2018, the UAE Central Bank held gold reserves valued at AED 1.165 billion, marking a decrease of AED 24 billion from AED 1.189 billion recorded the month before.
(With files from WAM)
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