Table 8.9

World Iron Ore Production

Unit: Thousand metric tons · Cochilco, Anuario Cochilco 2025 · 2003 to 2025

World Iron Ore Production. Thousand metric tons
Series	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
Australia	212,881	234,002	261,796	275,042	298,997	342,435	394,069	433,452	477,332	519,693	612,416	739,681	801,971	857,727	885,357	899,000	884,046	918,063	922,159	944,966	952,511	926,411	930,003
Austria	2,125	1,889	2,048	2,092	2,153	2,033	2,002	2,069	2,207	2,142	2,323	2,437	2,783	2,777	2,982	2,804	3,242	3,043	3,311	3,311	3,311	3,201	3,284
Bosnia and Herzegovina	127	281	3,046	3,440	2,944	2,667	2,727	1,401	1,891	2,076	2,122	2,128	2,123	1,752	1,622	1,380	1,450	1,427	1,554	1,286	1,200	1,200	1,200
Brazil	234,478	261,696	281,462	317,800	354,674	350,707	290,783	372,120	398,130	400,822	386,270	385,440	389,148	424,200	453,704	450,393	396,841	387,995	412,499	409,370	446,778	480,764	446,725
Canada	33,013	28,596	28,343	34,094	32,834	30,847	31,704	36,058	35,674	36,326	41,841	42,745	37,957	42,528	50,300	52,358	56,488	58,648	57,492	65,032	59,422	69,190	66,491
Chile	811	8,003	7,862	8,629	8,747	9,316	8,212	9,259	12,083	16,695	15,752	18,866	15,448	14,620	15,426	14,013	13,137	15,553	17,685	17,638	16,072	15,166	15,125
China	261,085	310,105	420,493	588,171	707,076	824,016	880,176	1,065,608	1,314,975	1,328,519	1,436,388	1,498,942	1,376,994	1,381,300	1,280,893	763,374	844,356	866,717	980,528	967,873	990,555	1,041,935	1,007,371
North Korea	1,100	1,100	1,200	1,200	1,349	1,883	890	2,097	2,508	2,412	3,053	5,487	4,020	4,280	4,473	3,500	3,000	2,500	2,500	3,000	3,000	3,000	3,000
Egypt	2,900	2,237	1,599	1,600	2,200	1,800	1,780	2,314	3,321	3,930	3,320	1,699	509	565	565	560	105	96	96	96	96	0	0
United States	48,554	54,724	54,300	52,700	52,000	52,960	26,471	49,490	53,640	52,260	50,470	56,100	46,100	41,800	47,900	49,500	46,900	38,100	48,660	38,970	45,420	47,890	40,140
India	122,838	145,942	165,230	180,917	196,314	216,312	227,570	209,068	195,800	152,600	136,100	139,400	142,500	184,501	201,815	204,721	229,755	203,981	254,794	252,317	278,266	282,360	297,450
Iran	18,287	18,205	26,244	31,538	33,639	31,226	31,994	35,519	48,134	45,717	48,690	51,544	48,427	45,890	33,967	36,435	33,093	49,452	72,944	83,412	84,269	90,103	79,133
Kazakhstan	19,365	20,303	19,471	22,263	23,834	21,486	22,281	24,016	24,736	25,998	25,242	24,628	17,531	15,995	18,331	41,721	45,211	45,819	67,705	33,661	28,867	36,960	37,018
Liberia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4,814	4,300	1,522	1,605	3,934	4,429	4,875	5,000	4,990	5,050	5,210	14,874
Malaysia	597	664	950	667	802	982	1,465	3,402	7,696	10,296	11,898	9,615	13,262	1,914	3,872	3,354	4,160	5,457	4,874	4,912	4,836	5,399	3,885
Mauritania	10,153	10,674	10,752	11,155	11,233	11,296	10,652	11,534	11,400	11,170	13,038	13,244	11,608	13,268	11,915	10,711	12,197	12,517	12,620	13,046	14,007	13,525	12,178
Mexico	12,398	13,369	14,468	14,568	10,916	11,688	11,677	13,998	12,806	13,181	15,199	17,248	14,143	12,090	11,713	12,173	17,219	17,958	9,504	9,337	6,691	5,843	4,675
Mongolia	0	33	168	180	265	1,387	1,379	3,203	5,678	7,561	8,904	10,261	6,173	4,936	8,226	6,225	8,572	9,224	9,172	7,676	5,331	6,642	8,753
Norway	410	568	713	620	630	746	896	6,772	6,723	7,745	9,549	4,016	3,804	1,860	1,717	1,746	1,819	1,801	1,675	1,806	1,890	1,904	1,813
New Zealand	1,947	2,329	2,207	2,146	1,724	2,020	2,093	1,416	2,357	2,395	3,157	3,245	3,194	3,496	4,008	4,000	4,000	4,000	3,960	3,960	3,960	2,550	2,960
Peru	5,229	5,229	5,615	5,885	6,277	6,348	4,419	6,043	7,011	6,609	6,681	7,193	7,321	7,663	8,806	9,534	10,120	8,894	12,149	12,937	14,081	13,309	11,892
Russia	92,605	94,895	96,828	103,900	104,660	99,904	92,050	95,484	103,553	104,012	99,741	102,028	100,985	101,100	95,000	96,100	97,700	100,000	100,600	95,100	90,892	90,580	97,500
Sierra Leone	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1,300	5,203	13,100	19,429	1,691	6,577	5,923	923	728	1	1,584	4,370	6,638	9,351	12,276
South Africa	38,086	39,322	39,542	41,326	42,083	48,983	55,313	58,709	58,026	66,974	71,878	80,741	73,221	66,456	74,723	74,264	72,407	55,795	73,127	63,714	63,188	61,447	64,168
Sweden	21,498	22,272	23,255	23,302	24,700	24,800	20,646	28,797	30,840	25,927	37,411	35,759	29,861	31,843	31,763	35,774	38,913	39,228	41,313	36,757	39,428	34,285	37,855
Türkiye	3,429	3,857	3,890	3,252	4,550	3,990	4,449	5,378	5,754	6,847	6,656	11,887	7,761	7,137	9,992	15,650	14,473	21,455	16,051	19,554	19,200	2,171	1,689
Ukraine	62,500	66,000	69,456	74,000	77,949	72,687	66,477	78,541	80,406	81,967	69,868	60,792	66,815	62,185	60,498	60,321	76,134	50,915	53,479	21,310	19,338	26,203	29,908
Venezuela	17,954	19,196	21,179	22,100	19,632	19,332	14,207	14,331	16,348	16,347	11,372	11,259	11,715	12,000	4,007	2,474	1,096	780	2,257	695	710	2,253	2,715
Vietnam	712	1,205	1,435	1,500	1,200	1,372	1,905	1,926	3,200	1,749	4,502	2,719	2,691	3,056	5,515	5,588	6,106	3,560	3,651	1,843	1,800	218	351
Others	3,630	3,967	4,136	10,401	6,001	6,107	3,693	4,267	4,005	4,574	4,388	10,131	8,285	6,043	8,723	8,236	9,770	11,675	15,823	11,940	11,696	9,761	15,861
WORLD TOTAL	1,228,712	1,370,663	1,567,688	1,834,488	2,029,383	2,199,330	2,211,980	2,576,272	2,927,534	2,961,747	3,151,329	3,373,478	3,252,341	3,361,081	3,345,341	2,870,766	2,937,467	2,939,529	3,208,766	3,134,879	3,218,503	3,288,831	3,250,293

Source stated in the table

World Bureau of Metal Statistics (WBMS)

Source: Chilean Copper Commission (Cochilco), Cochilco, Anuario Cochilco 2025 (XLSX), 2026. Read on Oct 6, 2026.

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n.d.: no data · n.a.: not applicable · “< 1”: less than one unit.