If I invested in silver in 2011
$10,000 in Silver in Jan 2011 would be worth $20,000 by Oct 2026 (2.00×, 4.5% 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
Silver’s 2011 run is one of the better-known modern spikes in a precious-metal spot price. Starting a lump sum in January 2011, on the World Bank monthly average, places the thought experiment near that episode rather than at a quiet starting point.
Because silver is more volatile than gold in this official monthly series, the later path can differ sharply from gold over the same window. This page uses the same $10,000 lump-sum method as the other examples so the comparison is fair. It is still a spot-price series: no yield, no ETF fees, and no storage costs.
World Bank monthly average silver prices, in US dollars per troy ounce.
Frequently asked questions
How much would $10,000 in Silver in 2011 be worth now?
About $20,000 as of Oct 2026 (2.00×, 4.5% CAGR), using the official series cited below.
What about $1,000 instead of $10,000?
About $2,000 as of Oct 2026. For a lump sum with no contributions, the multiple is the same (2.00×).
How much of that is inflation?
In Jan 2011 dollars the ending value is about $13,072 (1.31× after CPI-U). Consumer prices rose 1.53× 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 2011 through Oct 2026.