Nickel

Who supplies the world · tonnes of mine production · observed 2024 · 2025 est.

Nickel mined, by metal content. The latest year is a USGS estimate.

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.
3.9 Mt
World total · 2024
3.7 Mt
Producers listed
9
Top three · 2025 est.
79%

The three largest producers — Indonesia, Philippines and Russia — account for 79% of the 2025 world estimate of 3.9 Mt.

Share of world production

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.

  1. 2024: 2.3 Mt · 62%2025 est.: 2.6 Mt · 67%

    Observed 2025 est. · U.S. Geological Survey
  2. 2024: 354 kt · 9.5%2025 est.: 270 kt · 6.9%

    Observed 2025 est. · U.S. Geological Survey
  3. 2024: 205 kt · 5.5%2025 est.: 200 kt · 5.1%

    Observed 2025 est. · U.S. Geological Survey
  4. 2024: 125 kt · 3.4%2025 est.: 140 kt · 3.6%

    Observed 2025 est. · U.S. Geological Survey
  5. 2024: 116 kt · 3.1%2025 est.: 140 kt · 3.6%

    Observed 2025 est. · U.S. Geological Survey
  6. 2024: 115 kt · 3.1%2025 est.: 120 kt · 3.1%

    Observed 2025 est. · U.S. Geological Survey
  7. 2024: 67.5 kt · 1.8%2025 est.: 70.0 kt · 1.8%

    Observed 2025 est. · U.S. Geological Survey
  8. 2024: 98.0 kt · 2.6%2025 est.: 45.0 kt · 1.2%

    Observed 2025 est. · U.S. Geological Survey
  9. 2024: 7,490 t · 0.20%2025 est.: 10.0 kt · 0.26%

    Observed 2025 est. · U.S. Geological Survey

Rest of world

2024: 312 kt · 8.4%2025 est.: 305 kt · 7.8%