# Iron ore — who supplies the world

World iron ore mine production: 2600 Mt in the 2025 USGS estimate. Australia leads with 38%; the top three hold 66%. Every producer's sourced share.

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

What is measured: the MCS statistics row "Mine production: Usable ore" — 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: 2600 Mt (2025 est.) · 2600 Mt (2024).
Shares are computed against the published world total itself, never against the sum of listed producers.

## Producers (17 listed)

| Rank | Nation | 2024 | 2025 est. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Australia | 982 Mt · 38% | 980 Mt · 38% |
| 2 | Brazil | 428 Mt · 16% | 420 Mt · 16% |
| 3 | India | 282 Mt · 11% | 310 Mt · 12% |
| 4 | China | 293 Mt · 11% | 290 Mt · 11% |
| 5 | Iran | 90 Mt · 3.5% | 93 Mt · 3.6% |
| 6 | Russia | 91 Mt · 3.5% | 86 Mt · 3.3% |
| 7 | Canada | 70 Mt · 2.7% | 69 Mt · 2.7% |
| 8 | South Africa | 64 Mt · 2.5% | 66 Mt · 2.5% |
| 9 | Ukraine | 55 Mt · 2.1% | 52 Mt · 2.0% |
| 10 | United States | 45 Mt · 1.7% | 38 Mt · 1.5% |
| 11 | Kazakhstan | 37 Mt · 1.4% | 35 Mt · 1.3% |
| 12 | Sweden | 25 Mt · 0.96% | 26 Mt · 1.0% |
| 13 | Peru | 20 Mt · 0.76% | 21 Mt · 0.81% |
| 14 | Chile | 18 Mt · 0.69% | 19 Mt · 0.73% |
| 15 | Türkiye | 17 Mt · 0.65% | 18 Mt · 0.69% |
| 16 | Mauritania | 14 Mt · 0.55% | 15 Mt · 0.58% |
| 17 | Mexico | 7.8 Mt · 0.30% | 7.7 Mt · 0.30% |
| — | Rest of world | 61 Mt · 2.4% | 54 Mt · 2.1% |

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/iron-ore.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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