List of countries by copper production

Production trends in the top five copper-producing countries, 1950-2012

This is a list of countries by mined Copper production.

Copper concentrates are commonly exported to other countries to be smelted. A nation's smelter production of copper can differ greatly from its mined production. See: List of countries by copper smelter production.

2020[]

2020

Rank	Country/region	Production (thousand tons of)[1]
	World	16,890
1	Chile	5,700
2	Peru	2,200
3	China	1,700
4	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	1,300
5	United States	1,200
6	Australia	870
7	Russia	850
8	Zambia	830
9	Mexico	690
10	Kazakhstan	580
11	Canada	570
12	Poland	400

2017[]

2017

Rank	Country/region	Production (thousand tons of)[2][3]
	World	19,939
1	Chile	5,503
2	Peru	3,462
3	China	1,656
4	United States	1,260
5	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	1,094
6	Australia	859
7	Zambia	797
8	Mexico	742
9	Russia	705
10	Indonesia	622
11	Poland	620
12	Canada	605
13	Kazakhstan	540
14	Brazil	419
15	Mongolia	384
16	Iran	314
17	Spain	204
18	Laos	153

2015[]

2015

Rank	Country/region	Production (thousand tons)[4]
	World	19,100
1	Chile	5,760
2	China	1,710
3	Peru	1,700
4	United States	1,372
5	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	1,020
6	Australia	971
7	Russia	732
8	Zambia	712
9	Canada	697
10	Mexico	594
	Other Countries	3,800

2012[]

1907[]

1907

Rank	Country/region	Production (thousand tons)[5]
	Worldwide	723
1	United States	399
2	Mexico	61
3	Spain and Portugal	50
4	Japan	50
5	Australasia	42
6	Chile	27
7	Germany	21
8	Russia	15

See also[]

• List of copper mines

References[]

Further reading[]

• http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/mcs/