This is a list of countries by iron ore production based on U.S. Geological Survey data.
List
| Rank | Country | Usable iron ore production (× 1000 tonnes) | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| World | 2,500,000 | 2022 | |
| 1 | Australia | 880,000 | 2023 |
| 2 | China | 659,000 | 2023 |
| 3 | Brazil | 422,000 | 2023 |
| 4 | India | 285,000 | 2023 |
| 5 | Russia | 99,000 | 2019 |
| 6 | South Africa | 77,000 | 2019 |
| 7 | Ukraine | 62,000 | 2019 |
| 8 | Canada | 54,000 | 2019 |
| 9 | United States | 48,000 | 2019 |
| 10 | Kazakhstan | 43,000 | 2019 |
| 11 | Iran | 38,000 | 2019 |
| 12 | Sweden | 37,000 | 2019 |
| 13 | Mexico | 23,000 | 2019 |
| 14 | Chile | 20,000 | 2022 |
| 15 | Peru | 15,000 | 2019 |
| 16 | Mauritania | 13,300 | 2017 |
| 17 | Venezuela | 12,000 | 2017 |
| 18 | Vietnam | 9,570 | 2017 |
| 19 | Mongolia | 7,695 | 2017 |
| 20 | Turkey | 6,700 | 2017 |
| 21 | North Korea | 5,250 | 2017 |
| 22 | Sierra Leone | 4,720 | 2017 |
| 23 | Malaysia | 3,920 | 2017 |
| 24 | New Zealand | 3,490 | 2017 |
| 25 | Austria | 2,800 | 2017 |
| 26 | Greece | 2,284 | 2017 |
| 27 | Liberia | 1,930 | 2017 |
| 28 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1,622 | 2017 |
| 29 | Colombia | 715 | 2017 |
| 30 | Algeria | 600 | 2017 |
| 31 | Pakistan | 547 | 2017 |
| 32 | Egypt | 500 | 2017 |
| 33 | South Korea | 310 | 2017 |
| 34 | Tunisia | 200 | 2017 |
| 35 | Laos | 110 | 2017 |
| 36 | Togo | 60 | 2017 |
| 37 | Bhutan | 28 | 2017 |
| 38 | Morocco | 15 | 2017 |
Pig iron production
This is a list of countries by pig iron production.
Pig Iron production (million metric tons)| Rank | Country | 1980 | 2013 | 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| World | 506 | 1,168 | 1,180 | |
| 1 | China | 38 | 709 | 710 |
| 2 | Japan | 87 | 84 | 84 |
| 3 | India | 85 | 50 | 54 |
| 4 | Russia | n/a | 50 | 51 |
| 5 | South Korea | 5.6 | 41 | 47 |
| 6 | Brazil | 13 | 26 | 30 |
| 7 | Germany | 36 | 27 | 28 |
| 8 | United States | 62 | 30 | 26 |
| 9 | Ukraine | n/a | 29 | 25 |
| 10 | United Kingdom | 6.2 | 9.4 | 9 |
| Other countries | 246 | 91 | 101 |
See also
Notes
References
Data in the article is as of 2019, since iron ore production in many countries declined during the COVID-19 pandemic and hasn't fully recovered to pre-pandemic levels. /wiki/COVID-19_pandemic ↩
"Mineral Commodity Summaries 2020" (PDF). U.S. Geological Survey. Retrieved 2020-07-30. https://pubs.usgs.gov/periodicals/mcs2020/mcs2020-iron-ore.pdf ↩
2017 Annual Tables. USGS. 2019-11-18. https://prd-wret.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/palladium/production/atoms/files/myb1-2017-feore-adv.xlsx ↩
"Global iron ore production data; Clarification of reporting from the USGS" (PDF). U.S. Geological Survey. Retrieved 2017-08-21. https://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/iron_ore/global_iron_ore_data.pdf ↩
"World Steel Production 1980-2013" (PDF). World Steel Association. Nov 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 April 2015. Retrieved 4 April 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150420161500/http://www.worldsteel.org/dms/internetDocumentList/statistics-archive/production-archive/steel-archive/steel-annually/steel-annually-1980-2013/document/steel%20annually%201980-2013.pdf ↩
USGS 2016 https://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/iron_&_steel/mcs-2016-feste.pdf ↩