← Suppliers · Iron ore · 2/10 COMMODITY Who supplies the world · tonnes of mine production · observed 2024 · 2025 est.
Iron ore mined, measured as usable ore rather than iron content — the larger of the two figures USGS publishes. The latest year is an estimate.
Figures are mine production — the MCS statistics row “Mine production: Usable ore” — 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. 2600 Mt
World total · 2024 2600 Mt
Producers listed 17
Top three · 2025 est. 66% The three largest producers — Australia, Brazil and India — account for 66% of the 2025 world estimate of 2600 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: 982 Mt · 38% · 2025 est.: 980 Mt · 38%
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:prodIronOre-share:2025
2024: 428 Mt · 16% · 2025 est.: 420 Mt · 16%
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:BRA:prodIronOre-share:2025
2024: 282 Mt · 11% · 2025 est.: 310 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:IND:prodIronOre-share:2025
2024: 293 Mt · 11% · 2025 est.: 290 Mt · 11%
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:prodIronOre-share:2025
2024: 90 Mt · 3.5% · 2025 est.: 93 Mt · 3.6%
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:IRN:prodIronOre-share:2025
2024: 91 Mt · 3.5% · 2025 est.: 86 Mt · 3.3%
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:RUS:prodIronOre-share:2025
2024: 70 Mt · 2.7% · 2025 est.: 69 Mt · 2.7%
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:CAN:prodIronOre-share:2025
2024: 64 Mt · 2.5% · 2025 est.: 66 Mt · 2.5%
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:ZAF:prodIronOre-share:2025
2024: 55 Mt · 2.1% · 2025 est.: 52 Mt · 2.0%
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:UKR:prodIronOre-share:2025
2024: 45 Mt · 1.7% · 2025 est.: 38 Mt · 1.5%
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:prodIronOre-share:2025
2024: 37 Mt · 1.4% · 2025 est.: 35 Mt · 1.3%
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:KAZ:prodIronOre-share:2025
2024: 25 Mt · 0.96% · 2025 est.: 26 Mt · 1.0%
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:SWE:prodIronOre-share:2025
2024: 20 Mt · 0.76% · 2025 est.: 21 Mt · 0.81%
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:prodIronOre-share:2025
2024: 18 Mt · 0.69% · 2025 est.: 19 Mt · 0.73%
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:prodIronOre-share:2025
2024: 17 Mt · 0.65% · 2025 est.: 18 Mt · 0.69%
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:TUR:prodIronOre-share:2025
2024: 14 Mt · 0.55% · 2025 est.: 15 Mt · 0.58%
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:MRT:prodIronOre-share:2025
2024: 7.8 Mt · 0.30% · 2025 est.: 7.7 Mt · 0.30%
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:prodIronOre-share:2025
Rest of world
2024: 61 Mt · 2.4% · 2025 est.: 54 Mt · 2.1%
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.