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🥈 Top Silver Producers

Silver mined per year, in tonnes.

📅 2024📏 tonnes14 entries
  1. 🇲🇽Mexico6,300 t
  2. 🇨🇳China3,300 t
  3. 🇵🇪Peru3,100 t
  4. 🇧🇴Bolivia1,300 t
  5. 🇵🇱Poland1,300 t
  6. 🇨🇱Chile1,200 t
  7. 🇷🇺Russia1,200 t
  8. 🇺🇸United States1,100 t
  9. 🇦🇺Australia1,000 t
  10. 🇰🇿Kazakhstan1,000 t
  11. 🇦🇷Argentina800 t
  12. 🇮🇳India800 t
Stems start at zero, so the length of each stem is the entry’s value.
1
🇲🇽Mexico
6,300 t
2
🇨🇳China
3,300 t
3
🇵🇪Peru
3,100 t
4
🇧🇴Bolivia
1,300 t
5
🇵🇱Poland
1,300 t
6
🇨🇱Chile
1,200 t
7
🇷🇺Russia
1,200 t
8
🇺🇸United States
1,100 t
9
🇦🇺Australia
1,000 t
10
🇰🇿Kazakhstan
1,000 t
11
🇦🇷Argentina
800 t
12
🇮🇳India
800 t
13
🇸🇪Sweden
400 t
14
🇨🇦Canada
300 t

Highlights

As of 2024, Mexico ranks first with 6,300 t, followed by China (3,300 t) and Peru (3,100 t).

Mexico is 1.9 times higher than China, the runner-up.

Across 14 countries and territories, values run from 6,300 t (Mexico) to 300 t (Canada), with a median of 1,150 t.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 5 from the Americas, 2 from Asia, 2 from Europe and 1 from Oceania.

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

Source: USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries, silver (via Wikipedia) · CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikipedia); underlying data © the cited publisher · fetched Oct 13, 2026 — Countries with 2024 figures; smaller producers reported for earlier years are left out.