If I invested in gold in 2000
$10,000 in Gold in Jan 2000 would be worth $144,542 by Oct 2026 (14.45×, 10.5% a year).
Data: World Bank Commodity Price Data (CC BY 4.0); inflation: BLS CPI-U. Historical illustration, not financial advice; ignores fees, storage and taxes. Details
Why this start year
The year 2000 sat at the end of a long, quiet stretch for gold. The official Bretton Woods price was already decades in the past, the 1980 spike was a memory, and the metal spent the late 1990s near a multi-year low in dollar terms. This page uses the World Bank monthly average spot price, not a gold ETF or a futures roll, and every figure is computed from that official series.
A lump-sum thought experiment starting in January 2000 therefore begins near a cyclical low, then runs through the 2000s bull market, the 2011 peak, the mid-2010s retreat, and the later advance. That path is why this start date is a different story from starting in 2011, after prices had already risen. $1,000 at the same date would have grown by the same multiple as $10,000 — lump-sum results scale linearly.
World Bank monthly average gold prices, in US dollars per troy ounce. Before the early 1970s the official price was tightly managed under Bretton Woods, so early observations are not a free-market price.
Frequently asked questions
How much would $10,000 in Gold in 2000 be worth now?
About $144,542 as of Oct 2026 (14.45×, 10.5% CAGR), using the official series cited below.
What about $1,000 instead of $10,000?
About $14,454 as of Oct 2026. For a lump sum with no contributions, the multiple is the same (14.45×).
How much of that is inflation?
In Jan 2000 dollars the ending value is about $72,413 (7.24× after CPI-U). Consumer prices rose 2.00× over the span.
Sources & caveats
Not financial advice. This is a historical thought experiment, not a recommendation to buy or sell anything. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Figures use monthly average spot prices from the World Bank Pink Sheet. They are not the return of a particular ETF, futures contract, mining stock, coin, bar, or brokerage account. They ignore transaction costs, storage, insurance, roll yield on futures, taxes, and slippage. A real investment would have returned something different.
- Source: World Bank Commodity Price Data (The Pink Sheet). Accessed via the World Bank. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 and the World Bank Dataset Terms.
- License and terms: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), subject to the World Bank Dataset Terms
- Series window used here: Jan 2000 through Oct 2026.