← Suppliers · Copper · 1/10 COMMODITY OBSERVED 2024 · 2025 EST Who supplies the world · tonnes of mine production · observed 2024 · 2025 est.
Copper mined from ore, by metal content. The latest year is a USGS estimate; the year before it is the reported figure.
Figures are mine production — the MCS statistics row “Mine production” — as published by the U.S. Geological Survey in the Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026. They measure what left mines in each calendar year: not reserves in the ground, and not refined or smelted output, which for several of these commodities is concentrated in different hands. 2025 is the USGS estimate; 2024 is the reported figure.
World total · 2025 est. 23 Mt
World total · 2024 23 Mt
Producers listed 14
Top three · 2025 est. 49% The three largest producers — Chile, DR Congo and Peru — account for 49% of the 2025 world estimate of 23 Mt.
Each bar is that nation’s share of the published world total for the 2025 estimate. Shares are computed against the world total itself, never against the sum of the producers listed.
Press a row — the specimen turns over to its label. The track is 100% of the world total: a quarter-width bar is a quarter of the world.
PROOF VIEW ⟲ CLOSE PROOFS ⟲ 2024: 5.5 Mt · 24% · 2025 est.: 5.3 Mt · 23%
Observed 2025 est. · U.S. Geological Survey OBSERVED 2025 EST · USGS-MCS — U.S. Geological Survey
mine production, not reserves · share of the published world total · TL:CHL:prodCopper-share:2025
2024: 3.0 Mt · 13% · 2025 est.: 3.2 Mt · 14%
Observed 2025 est. · U.S. Geological Survey OBSERVED 2025 EST · USGS-MCS — U.S. Geological Survey
mine production, not reserves · share of the published world total · TL:COD:prodCopper-share:2025
2024: 2.7 Mt · 12% · 2025 est.: 2.7 Mt · 12%
Observed 2025 est. · U.S. Geological Survey OBSERVED 2025 EST · USGS-MCS — U.S. Geological Survey
mine production, not reserves · share of the published world total · TL:PER:prodCopper-share:2025
2024: 1.8 Mt · 8.0% · 2025 est.: 1.8 Mt · 7.8%
Observed 2025 est. · U.S. Geological Survey OBSERVED 2025 EST · USGS-MCS — U.S. Geological Survey
mine production, not reserves · share of the published world total · TL:CHN:prodCopper-share:2025
2024: 1.0 Mt · 4.4% · 2025 est.: 1.3 Mt · 5.7%
Observed 2025 est. · U.S. Geological Survey OBSERVED 2025 EST · USGS-MCS — U.S. Geological Survey
mine production, not reserves · share of the published world total · TL:RUS:prodCopper-share:2025
2024: 1.1 Mt · 4.6% · 2025 est.: 1.0 Mt · 4.3%
Observed 2025 est. · U.S. Geological Survey OBSERVED 2025 EST · USGS-MCS — U.S. Geological Survey
mine production, not reserves · share of the published world total · TL:USA:prodCopper-share:2025
2024: 823 kt · 3.6% · 2025 est.: 940 kt · 4.1%
Observed 2025 est. · U.S. Geological Survey OBSERVED 2025 EST · USGS-MCS — U.S. Geological Survey
mine production, not reserves · share of the published world total · TL:ZMB:prodCopper-share:2025
2024: 765 kt · 3.3% · 2025 est.: 730 kt · 3.2%
Observed 2025 est. · U.S. Geological Survey OBSERVED 2025 EST · USGS-MCS — U.S. Geological Survey
mine production, not reserves · share of the published world total · TL:AUS:prodCopper-share:2025
2024: 1.0 Mt · 4.4% · 2025 est.: 710 kt · 3.1%
Observed 2025 est. · U.S. Geological Survey OBSERVED 2025 EST · USGS-MCS — U.S. Geological Survey
mine production, not reserves · share of the published world total · TL:IDN:prodCopper-share:2025
2024: 724 kt · 3.1% · 2025 est.: 710 kt · 3.1%
Observed 2025 est. · U.S. Geological Survey OBSERVED 2025 EST · USGS-MCS — U.S. Geological Survey
mine production, not reserves · share of the published world total · TL:KAZ:prodCopper-share:2025
2024: 717 kt · 3.1% · 2025 est.: 690 kt · 3.0%
Observed 2025 est. · U.S. Geological Survey OBSERVED 2025 EST · USGS-MCS — U.S. Geological Survey
mine production, not reserves · share of the published world total · TL:MEX:prodCopper-share:2025
2024: 515 kt · 2.2% · 2025 est.: 500 kt · 2.2%
Observed 2025 est. · U.S. Geological Survey OBSERVED 2025 EST · USGS-MCS — U.S. Geological Survey
mine production, not reserves · share of the published world total · TL:CAN:prodCopper-share:2025
2024: 400 kt · 1.7% · 2025 est.: 410 kt · 1.8%
Observed 2025 est. · U.S. Geological Survey OBSERVED 2025 EST · USGS-MCS — U.S. Geological Survey
mine production, not reserves · share of the published world total · TL:POL:prodCopper-share:2025
2024: 27.0 kt · 0.12% · 2025 est.: 23.0 kt · 0.10%
Observed 2025 est. · U.S. Geological Survey OBSERVED 2025 EST · USGS-MCS — U.S. Geological Survey
mine production, not reserves · share of the published world total · TL:IND:prodCopper-share:2025
Rest of world
2024: 2.9 Mt · 12% · 2025 est.: 3.0 Mt · 13%
The ten commodities
Source
Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 — U.S. Geological Survey · Public domain (U.S. Government work) · accessed 2026-08-14.
Rest of world is the difference between the published world total and the producers listed: the MCS “Other countries” aggregate, withheld figures, and production this atlas does not file under a separate entity. Gaps appear as “—” rather than being estimated. The same tonnages appear on each nation’s dossier, resources tab.