The following is a list of countries by iron ore exports. Data is for 2012, 2016 & 2023, in millions of United States dollars, as reported by The Observatory of Economic Complexity and the International Trade Centre. Currently the top twenty countries (as of 2023) are listed.
* indicates "Natural resources of COUNTRY or TERRITORY" links.
Country | 2012 | 2016 | 2023 [1] | in millions of tons (2023) |
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Australia | 54,397 | 38,101 | 91,049 | 901,352 |
Brazil * | 32,738 | 14,110 | 30,593 | 378,139 |
Canada * | 4,569 | 2,656 | 6,630 | 58,250 |
South Africa * | 5,580 | 4,189 | 6,540 | 59,556 |
India * | 3,212 | 1,047 | 3,607 | 43,850 |
Sweden * | 3,076 | 1,664 | 3,234 | ... |
China * | 2,626 | 21,417 | ||
Bahrain * | 273 | 363 | 1,831 | 13,816 |
Ukraine * | 3,170 | 1,929 | 1,767 | 17,753 |
Peru * | 889 | 368 | 1,681 | 19,177 |
Chile * | 1,389 | 832 | 1,662 | 16,071 |
Mauritania * | 1,583 | 983 | 1,412 | 14,471 |
Iran * | 1,499 | 711 | 1,291 | 10,062 |
Russia * | 2,813 | 920 | 1,221 | 10,654 |
United States | 1,534 | 560 | 1,115 | 11,130 |
Malaysia * | 516 | 475 | 1,101 | 20,367 |
Oman * | 547 | 484 | 1,001 | 6,745 |
Sierra Leone | 376 | 142 | 885 | 9,363 |
Kazakhstan * | 2,362 | 385 | 791 | 11,713 |
Mongolia * | 514 | 235 | 444 | 5,713 |
The Atlas of Economic Complexity: Mapping Paths to Prosperity is a 2011 economics book by Ricardo Hausmann, Cesar A. Hidalgo, Sebastián Bustos, Michele Coscia, Sarah Chung, Juan Jimenez, Alexander Simoes and Muhammed A. Yıldırım. A revised 2014 edition is published by the MIT Press.