Interactive ratio dashboard
Gold-to-silver ratio dashboard
Track the live gold-to-silver ratio against 1-, 5-, 10-, and 20-year World Bank price-history ranges.
Live + historical context
How many ounces of silver buy one ounce of gold?
Latest World Bank monthly ratio · August 2026
Historical windows: World Bank monthly nominal U.S.-dollar prices through August 2026. Live prices: Gold API, indicative and subject to vendor timing. Percentiles are descriptive, not forecasts.
What changed
The current indicative ratio now sits beside four explicit historical windows. Percentile and range calculations use monthly World Bank Pink Sheet observations, preventing intraday data from being compared with an unlabeled annual average.
Why it matters
A higher ratio means one ounce of gold buys more ounces of silver. That may reflect stronger gold demand, weaker silver demand, or both. Industrial demand, mine supply, investment flows, and macro conditions can move the two metals differently.
- Use the ratio to compare metals, not to time a trade by itself.
- Check whether the move came from gold, silver, or both.
- Expect different conclusions from daily, monthly, and annual samples.
Historical context
Monthly World Bank prices show a 20-year low near 34.7 in April 2011 and a high near 111.5 in April 2020. Those episodes occurred in very different liquidity and demand environments.
What could change the conclusion
A structural change in silver’s industrial demand, investment access, mine supply, or market liquidity could make an older range a poor anchor. That is why this page shows multiple windows rather than a single supposed fair value.
Reproducible by design
Methodology and limitations
- Live ratio = indicative XAU price ÷ indicative XAG price.
- Historical observations use monthly nominal U.S.-dollar gold and silver prices from the World Bank Pink Sheet.
- Window percentiles count observations at or below the current reading; they do not forecast a future price.
Educational information only. GoldKnows does not provide individualized investment, tax, legal, appraisal, custody, or trading advice.
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