List of countries by copper production
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This is a list of countries by mined copper production.
Copper ore can be exported to be smelted so that a nation's smelter production of copper can differ greatly from its mined production. See: List of countries by copper smelter production.
2023[edit]
Rank | Country/region | Production (thousand tons of)[1] |
---|---|---|
— | World | 21,550 |
1 | 5,000 | |
2 | 2,600 | |
3 | 2,500 | |
4 | 1,700 | |
5 | 1,100 | |
6 | 910 | |
7 | 840 | |
8 | 810 | |
9 | 760 | |
10 | 750 | |
11 | 600 | |
12 | 480 | |
13 | 400 | |
— | Other countries | 3,100 |
2020[edit]
Rank | Country/region | Production (thousand tons of)[2] |
---|---|---|
— | World | 16,890 |
1 | 5,700 | |
2 | 2,200 | |
3 | 1,700 | |
4 | 1,300 | |
5 | 1,200 | |
6 | 870 | |
7 | 850 | |
8 | 830 | |
9 | 690 | |
10 | 580 | |
11 | 570 | |
12 | 400 | |
— | Other countries | 3300 |
2017[edit]
Rank | Country/region | Production (thousand tons of)[3][4] |
---|---|---|
— | World | 19,939 |
1 | 5,503 | |
2 | 3,462 | |
3 | 1,656 | |
4 | 1,260 | |
5 | 1,094 | |
6 | 859 | |
7 | 797 | |
8 | 742 | |
9 | 705 | |
10 | 622 | |
11 | 620 | |
12 | 605 | |
13 | 540 | |
14 | 419 | |
15 | 384 | |
16 | 314 | |
17 | 204 | |
18 | 153 |
2015[edit]
Rank | Country/region | Production (thousand tons)[5] |
---|---|---|
— | World | 19,100 |
1 | 5,760 | |
2 | 1,710 | |
3 | 1,700 | |
4 | 1,372 | |
5 | 1,020 | |
6 | 971 | |
7 | 732 | |
8 | 712 | |
9 | 697 | |
10 | 594 | |
Other Countries | 3,800 |
2012[edit]
1907[edit]
Rank | Country/region | Production (thousand tons)[6] |
---|---|---|
— | Worldwide | 723 |
1 | 399 | |
2 | 61 | |
3 | 50 | |
4 | 50 | |
5 | 42 | |
6 | 27 | |
7 | 21 | |
8 | 15 |
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "Copper" (PDF). U.S. Geological Survey, Mineral Commodity Summaries. 31 January 2024. p. 65.
- ^ "Copper" (PDF). U.S. Geological Survey, Mineral Commodity Summaries. 29 January 2021. p. 53.
- ^ Kay, Amanda (15 February 2018). "Top Copper Production by Country". Copper Investing News. Retrieved 29 June 2018.
- ^ "World Mining Data - Data Section".
- ^ "Annual Publications - 2017: copper production in 2015" (PDF). USGS Minerals Information: Copper. USGS. 2017. Retrieved 28 March 2017.
- ^ Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed. (1910), vol. 7, p. 109 - Copper. Production.—
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