# Copper — who supplies the world

World copper mine production: 23 Mt in the 2025 USGS estimate. Chile leads with 23%; the top three hold 49%. Every producer's sourced share.

Canonical: https://terralore.co/commodities/copper
Updated: 2026-08-14 (USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries edition)

What is measured: the MCS statistics row "Mine production" — mine production in tonnes, what left mines in each calendar year. Not reserves in the ground, and not refined or smelted output. 2025 is the USGS estimate; 2024 is the reported figure.

World total: 23 Mt (2025 est.) · 23 Mt (2024).
Shares are computed against the published world total itself, never against the sum of listed producers.

## Producers (14 listed)

| Rank | Nation | 2024 | 2025 est. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chile | 5.5 Mt · 24% | 5.3 Mt · 23% |
| 2 | DR Congo | 3.0 Mt · 13% | 3.2 Mt · 14% |
| 3 | Peru | 2.7 Mt · 12% | 2.7 Mt · 12% |
| 4 | China | 1.8 Mt · 8.0% | 1.8 Mt · 7.8% |
| 5 | Russia | 1.0 Mt · 4.4% | 1.3 Mt · 5.7% |
| 6 | United States | 1.1 Mt · 4.6% | 1.0 Mt · 4.3% |
| 7 | Zambia | 823 kt · 3.6% | 940 kt · 4.1% |
| 8 | Australia | 765 kt · 3.3% | 730 kt · 3.2% |
| 9 | Indonesia | 1.0 Mt · 4.4% | 710 kt · 3.1% |
| 10 | Kazakhstan | 724 kt · 3.1% | 710 kt · 3.1% |
| 11 | Mexico | 717 kt · 3.1% | 690 kt · 3.0% |
| 12 | Canada | 515 kt · 2.2% | 500 kt · 2.2% |
| 13 | Poland | 400 kt · 1.7% | 410 kt · 1.8% |
| 14 | India | 27.0 kt · 0.12% | 23.0 kt · 0.10% |
| — | Rest of world | 2.9 Mt · 12% | 3.0 Mt · 13% |

Rest of world is the published world total minus the producers listed: the MCS "Other countries" aggregate, withheld figures, and production this atlas does not file under a separate entity. It is real, published tonnage not attributable to a single nation here.

Machine-readable claims — every share and tonnage above as an addressable claim ID with its derivation and a ready citation string: https://terralore.co/commodities/copper.claims.json

## Sources

- Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 — U.S. Geological Survey · Public domain (U.S. Government work) · accessed 2026-08-14 · https://www.usgs.gov/centers/national-minerals-information-center

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