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🔋 Top Lithium Producers

Lithium mined per year (lithium content), in thousands of tonnes. The metal behind electric-car batteries.

📅 2024📏 thousand tonnes12 entries
  1. 🇦🇺Australia88.0k t
  2. 🇨🇱Chile49.0k t
  3. 🇨🇳China41.0k t
  4. 🇿🇼Zimbabwe22.0k t
  5. 🇦🇷Argentina18.0k t
  6. 🇧🇷Brazil10.0k t
  7. 🇨🇦Canada4.3k t
  8. 🇳🇦Namibia2.7k t
  9. 🇺🇸United States2.4k t
  10. 🇧🇴Bolivia0.7k t
  11. 🇵🇹Portugal0.4k t
  12. 🇳🇬Nigeria0.1k t
Stems start at zero, so the length of each stem is the entry’s value.
1
🇦🇺Australia
88.0k t
2
🇨🇱Chile
49.0k t
3
🇨🇳China
41.0k t
4
🇿🇼Zimbabwe
22.0k t
5
🇦🇷Argentina
18.0k t
6
🇧🇷Brazil
10.0k t
7
🇨🇦Canada
4.3k t
8
🇳🇦Namibia
2.7k t
9
🇺🇸United States
2.4k t
10
🇧🇴Bolivia
0.7k t
11
🇵🇹Portugal
0.4k t
12
🇳🇬Nigeria
0.1k t

Highlights

As of 2024, Australia ranks first with 88.0k t, followed by Chile (49.0k t) and China (41.0k t).

Australia is 1.8 times higher than Chile, the runner-up.

Across 12 countries and territories, values run from 88.0k t (Australia) to 0.1k t (Nigeria), with a median of 7.2k t.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 6 from the Americas, 2 from Africa, 1 from Asia and 1 from Oceania.

Source: USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries, lithium (via Wikipedia), 2024. Unit: thousand tonnes.

Source: USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries, lithium (via Wikipedia) · CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikipedia); underlying data © the cited publisher · fetched Oct 13, 2026