Gold rose 29.8% in 2010 against the US dollar. It is gold's second best annual gain this past decade and the tenth year in a row it climbed against the world's reserve currency.
Gold also rose last year against eight other major world currencies, but its greatest appreciation was against the US dollar. The following table presents the annual change in gold's rate of exchange this decade against nine major currencies.
| Gold % Annual Change | |||||||||
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| USD | AUD | CAD | CNY | EUR | INR | JPY | CHF | GBP |
| 2001 | 2.5% | 11.3% | 8.8% | 2.5% | 8.1% | 5.8% | 17.4% | 5.0% | 5.4% |
| 2002 | 24.7% | 13.5% | 23.7% | 24.8% | 5.9% | 24.0% | 13.0% | 3.9% | 12.7% |
| 2003 | 19.6% | -10.5% | -2.2% | 19.5% | -0.5% | 13.5% | 7.9% | 7.0% | 7.9% |
| 2004 | 5.2% | 1.4% | -2.0% | 5.2% | -2.1% | 0.0% | 0.9% | -3.0% | -2.0% |
| 2005 | 18.2% | 25.6% | 14.5% | 15.2% | 35.1% | 22.8% | 35.7% | 36.2% | 31.8% |
| 2006 | 22.8% | 14.4% | 22.8% | 18.8% | 10.2% | 20.5% | 24.0% | 13.9% | 7.8% |
| 2007 | 31.4% | 18.1% | 11.5% | 22.9% | 18.8% | 17.4% | 23.4% | 22.1% | 29.7% |
| 2008 | 5.8% | 33.0% | 31.1% | -1.0% | 11.0% | 30.5% | -14.0% | -0.3% | 43.7% |
| 2009 | 23.9% | -3.6% | 5.9% | 24.0% | 20.4% | 18.4% | 27.1% | 20.3% | 12.1% |
| 2010 | 29.8% | 14.0% | 24.3% | 25.3% | 39.1% | 25.0% | 13.2% | 17.0% | 34.5% |
| Average | 18.4% | 11.7% | 13.8% | 15.7% | 14.6% | 17.8% | 14.9% | 12.2% | 18.3% |
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