List of countries by copper production

This is a list of countries by mined copper production.

Production trends in the top five copper-producing countries, 1950-2012

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

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2023
RankCountry/regionProduction (thousand tons of)[1]
  World21,550
1 Chile5,000
2 Peru2,600
3 Congo, Democratic Republic of the2,500
4 China1,700
5 United States1,100
6 Russia910
7 Indonesia840
8 Australia810
9 Zambia760
10 Mexico750
11 Kazakhstan600
12 Canada480
13 Poland400
  Other countries3,100

2020

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2020
RankCountry/regionProduction (thousand tons of)[2]
  World16,890
1 Chile5,700
2 Peru2,200
3 China1,700
4 Congo, Democratic Republic of the1,300
5 United States1,200
6 Australia870
7 Russia850
8 Zambia830
9 Mexico690
10 Kazakhstan580
11 Canada570
12 Poland400
  Other countries3300

2017

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2017
RankCountry/regionProduction (thousand tons of)[3][4]
  World19,939
1 Chile5,503
2 Peru3,462
3 China1,656
4 United States1,260
5 Congo, Democratic Republic of the1,094
6 Australia859
7 Zambia797
8 Mexico742
9 Russia705
10 Indonesia622
11 Poland620
12 Canada605
13 Zambia540
14 Brazil419
15 Mongolia384
16 Iran314
17 Spain204
18 Laos153

2015

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2015
RankCountry/regionProduction (thousand tons)[5]
  World19,100
1 Chile5,760
2 China1,710
3 Peru1,700
4 United States1,372
5 Congo, Democratic Republic of the1,020
6 Australia971
7 Russia732
8 Zambia712
9 Canada697
10 Mexico594
  Other Countries3,800

2012

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1907

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1907
RankCountry/regionProduction (thousand tons)[6]
 Worldwide723
1 United States399
2 Mexico61
3 Spain and Portugal50
4 Japan50
5 Australasia42
6 Chile27
7 Germany21
8 Russia15

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Copper" (PDF). U.S. Geological Survey, Mineral Commodity Summaries. 31 January 2024. p. 65.
  2. ^ "Copper" (PDF). U.S. Geological Survey, Mineral Commodity Summaries. 29 January 2021. p. 53.
  3. ^ Kay, Amanda (15 February 2018). "Top Copper Production by Country". Copper Investing News. Retrieved 29 June 2018.
  4. ^ "World Mining Data - Data Section".
  5. ^ "Annual Publications - 2017: copper production in 2015" (PDF). USGS Minerals Information: Copper. USGS. 2017. Retrieved 28 March 2017.
  6. ^ Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed. (1910), vol. 7, p. 109 - Copper. Production.—

Further reading

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