# Lithium — who supplies the world

World lithium mine production: 290 kt in the 2025 USGS estimate. Australia leads with 32%; the top three hold 72%. Every producer's sourced share.

Canonical: https://terralore.co/commodities/lithium
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: 290 kt (2025 est.) · 222 kt (2024).
Shares are computed against the published world total itself, never against the sum of listed producers.

## Producers (10 listed)

| Rank | Nation | 2024 | 2025 est. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Australia | 82.7 kt · 37% | 92.0 kt · 32% |
| 2 | China | 41.4 kt · 19% | 62.0 kt · 21% |
| 3 | Chile | 48.9 kt · 22% | 56.0 kt · 19% |
| 4 | Zimbabwe | 20.0 kt · 9.0% | 28.0 kt · 9.7% |
| 5 | Argentina | 13.8 kt · 6.2% | 23.0 kt · 7.9% |
| 6 | Brazil | 10.2 kt · 4.6% | 12.0 kt · 4.1% |
| 7 | Mali | 770 t · 0.35% | 9,400 t · 3.2% |
| 8 | Canada | 4,820 t · 2.2% | 5,600 t · 1.9% |
| 9 | Portugal | 380 t · 0.17% | 380 t · 0.13% |
| 10 | United States | withheld (W) | withheld (W) |
| — | Rest of world | below the table's rounding | 1,620 t · 0.56% |

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.

United States: its figure is withheld by the USGS ("W") to avoid disclosing company proprietary data. A withheld figure is an absence in this table, never a zero; where the USGS folds withheld production into its world total, that tonnage sits inside Rest of world.

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/lithium.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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