diff --git a/decimal.go b/decimal.go
index a37a230..35f6e0e 100644
--- a/decimal.go
+++ b/decimal.go
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ import (
 	"regexp"
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
+	"gopkg.in/yaml.v3"
 )
 
 // DivisionPrecision is the number of decimal places in the result when it
@@ -65,6 +66,14 @@ var PowPrecisionNegativeExponent = 16
 // silently lose precision.
 var MarshalJSONWithoutQuotes = false
 
+// MarshalYAMLWithoutQuotes should be set to true if you want the decimal to
+// be YAML marshaled as a number, instead of as a string.
+// WARNING: this is dangerous for decimals with many digits, since a YAML
+// unmarshallers may unmarshal a YAML numbers as an IEEE 754
+// double-precision floating point number, which means you can potentially
+// silently lose precision.
+var MarshalYAMLWithoutQuotes = false
+
 // ExpMaxIterations specifies the maximum number of iterations needed to calculate
 // precise natural exponent value using ExpHullAbrham method.
 var ExpMaxIterations = 1000
@@ -1790,6 +1799,20 @@ func (d Decimal) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) {
 	return []byte(str), nil
 }
 
+// MarshalYAML implements the [yaml.Marshaler] interface.
+func (d Decimal) MarshalYAML() (any, error) {
+	if MarshalYAMLWithoutQuotes {
+		n := yaml.Node{
+			Kind: yaml.ScalarNode,
+			Style: yaml.TaggedStyle, // yaml_PLAIN_SCALAR_STYLE == TaggedStyle
+			Value: d.String(),
+		}
+		return n, nil
+	}
+
+	return d.String(), nil
+}
+
 // UnmarshalBinary implements the encoding.BinaryUnmarshaler interface. As a string representation
 // is already used when encoding to text, this method stores that string as []byte
 func (d *Decimal) UnmarshalBinary(data []byte) error {
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 3d26474..2f15ed2 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
 module github.com/shopspring/decimal
 
 go 1.10
+
+require gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.1 // indirect