Rankings · Resources

Lithium (mined)

Lithium mined, by lithium content, excluding US output which USGS withholds to protect company data. The latest year is an estimate.

Producers listed
9
Highest
92.0 kt
Lowest
380 t
Observed
2025

The 9 highest

Bars are drawn to the highest value in the table. Highest, not best: this page orders figures, it does not grade nations.

  1. 1🇦🇺Australia

    92.0 kt  ·  observed 2025

  2. 2🇨🇳China

    62.0 kt  ·  observed 2025

  3. 3🇨🇱Chile

    56.0 kt  ·  observed 2025

  4. 4🇿🇼Zimbabwe

    28.0 kt  ·  observed 2025

  5. 5🇦🇷Argentina

    23.0 kt  ·  observed 2025

  6. 6🇧🇷Brazil

    12.0 kt  ·  observed 2025

  7. 7🇲🇱Mali

    9,400 t  ·  observed 2025

  8. 8🇨🇦Canada

    5,600 t  ·  observed 2025

  9. 9🇵🇹Portugal

    380 t  ·  observed 2025

Every listed producer

Figures are tonnes of mine production.

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.

  1. 1🇦🇺Australia92.0 kt · 2025
  2. 2🇨🇳China62.0 kt · 2025
  3. 3🇨🇱Chile56.0 kt · 2025
  4. 4🇿🇼Zimbabwe28.0 kt · 2025
  5. 5🇦🇷Argentina23.0 kt · 2025
  6. 6🇧🇷Brazil12.0 kt · 2025
  7. 7🇲🇱Mali9,400 t · 2025
  8. 8🇨🇦Canada5,600 t · 2025
  9. 9🇵🇹Portugal380 t · 2025