Who supplies the world · tonnes of mine production · observed 2024 · 2025 est.
Zinc mined, by metal content of concentrates and direct-shipping ores. 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.
13 Mt
World total · 2024
12 Mt
Producers listed
10
Top three · 2025 est.
52%
The three largest producers — China, Peru and Australia — account for 52% of the 2025 world estimate of 13 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.