Iron ore

tonnes of mine production · OBSERVED 2025

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.

Producers listed
17
Highest
980 Mt
Lowest
7.7 Mt
Observed
2025

The USGS names only the producers it lists; a nation absent here is not recorded as producing none — any output elsewhere sits inside the published world total. For each producer’s share of world production, and the honest “Rest of world” remainder, see the commodity page.

Press a row — the specimen turns over to its label. Bars are drawn to the highest value. Highest, not best: this page orders figures, it does not grade nations.

  1. 980 Mt 2025
    Observed 2025 · U.S. Geological Survey
  2. 420 Mt 2025
    Observed 2025 · U.S. Geological Survey
  3. 310 Mt 2025
    Observed 2025 · U.S. Geological Survey
  4. 290 Mt 2025
    Observed 2025 · U.S. Geological Survey
  5. 05 Iran
    93 Mt 2025
    Observed 2025 · U.S. Geological Survey
  6. 86 Mt 2025
    Observed 2025 · U.S. Geological Survey
  7. 69 Mt 2025
    Observed 2025 · U.S. Geological Survey
  8. 66 Mt 2025
    Observed 2025 · U.S. Geological Survey
  9. 52 Mt 2025
    Observed 2025 · U.S. Geological Survey
  10. 38 Mt 2025
    Observed 2025 · U.S. Geological Survey
  11. 35 Mt 2025
    Observed 2025 · U.S. Geological Survey
  12. 26 Mt 2025
    Observed 2025 · U.S. Geological Survey
  13. 13 Peru
    21 Mt 2025
    Observed 2025 · U.S. Geological Survey
  14. 19 Mt 2025
    Observed 2025 · U.S. Geological Survey
  15. 18 Mt 2025
    Observed 2025 · U.S. Geological Survey
  16. 15 Mt 2025
    Observed 2025 · U.S. Geological Survey
  17. 7.7 Mt 2025
    Observed 2025 · U.S. Geological Survey
Source

Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 — U.S. Geological Survey · Public domain (U.S. Government work) · accessed 2026-08-14.

Table assembled 2026-08-14 from each nation’s latest published observation. The same figure, with the same source, sits on each nation’s dossier. Gaps render as absences, never as zeros.