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Gold price history

Gold price in 1984

Gold averaged $360 an ounce in 1984. That was −14.7% on 1983.

1984 average$360
Highest month$394Mar
Lowest month$320Dec

Gold today: …

Month by month in 1984

MonthAverage price
January$371
February$386
March$394
April$381
May$377
June$378
July$348
August$348
September$340
October$341
November$342
December$320

1984 on the long-run chart

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The large dot is 1984. Yearly averages, log scale.

Yearly and monthly figures are averages of daily prices, in US dollars per troy ounce. Source: World Bank Commodity Markets (Pink Sheet), CC BY 4.0, via the open gold-prices dataset. Daily highs and lows were higher and lower than the monthly averages. Latest month in the data: September 2026.

Questions people ask

What was the price of gold in 1984?

Gold averaged about $360 an ounce in 1984. The highest month was March ($394) and the lowest was December ($320).

How much is gold now compared with 1984?

See the live figure at the top of this page. It compares today's price with the 1984 average of $360. Past prices don't tell you what gold will do next.

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