List of countries by iron ore production explained

This is a list of countries by iron ore production based on U.S. Geological Survey data.

List

Rank	Country	data-sort-type="number"	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	Peru	15,000	2019
15	Chile	14,000	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

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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<	--	-	10	Taiwan	1.7	13.3
12	Turkey	2	9 -->
	other countries	246	91	101

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See also

• List of countries by steel production
• List of iron mines
• Iron-ore exports by country

References

1. Web site: Mineral Commodity Summaries 2020. 2020-07-30. U.S. Geological Survey.
2. Book: 2017 Annual Tables. USGS. 2019-11-18.
3. Web site: Global iron ore production data; Clarification of reporting from the USGS. U.S. Geological Survey. 2017-08-21.
4. Web site: World Steel Production 1980-2013 . World Steel Association . Nov 2014 . 4 April 2015 . dead . 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 . 20 April 2015 .
5. http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/iron_&_steel/mcs-2016-feste.pdf USGS 2016