Desired for millennia because of its shine and rarity, gold is still the safe haven asset (with fairly decent returns) in times of uncertainty. This chart, via Visual Capitalist’s Pallavi Rao, examines a hypothetical question of how much gold there is in the entire world for every person. It divides all known reserves by current global population. There’s Not a Lot of Gold for 8 Billion People Turns out, there really isn’t a lot of gold in the world. To date, only 244,000 metric tons of gold have ever been discovered. This includes historical production and current known discoveries. That works out to about 30 grams (about one troy ounce), or six gold rings, for every single human being on the planet. Click here to read more…