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2025 estimated output / USGS 2026

Aluminium

Annual output of primary aluminium metal at smelters. This is neither bauxite mining nor alumina refining, and it excludes secondary aluminium recovered from scrap.

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Primary smelter production

thousand metric tonnes / 2025
Aluminium 2025 production by countryTab through country markers to hear quantities. Select a marker to reach its table row. Approximate country centres, not production sites. Circle area is proportional to output. All figures are also in the table below.China: 45,000 thousand metric tonnesIndia: 4,200 thousand metric tonnesRussia: 3,900 thousand metric tonnesCanada: 3,300 thousand metric tonnesUnited Arab Emirates: 2,700 thousand metric tonnesBahrain: 1,600 thousand metric tonnesAustralia: 1,500 thousand metric tonnesNorway: 1,300 thousand metric tonnesBrazil: 1,200 thousand metric tonnesMalaysia: 1,100 thousand metric tonnesIceland: 750 thousand metric tonnesUnited States: 660 thousand metric tonnes
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Approximate country centres, not mine or factory sites. Circle areas scale with output; very small markers have a minimum visible size. Natural Earth land outline, public domain. Country groupings without coordinates appear only in the table.

Aluminium · Primary smelter production · 2025 estimates
Country / reporting groupthousand metric tonnes
China45,000
India4,200
Russia3,900
Canada3,300
United Arab Emirates2,700
Bahrain1,600
Australia1,500
Norway1,300
Brazil1,200
Malaysia1,100
Iceland750
United States660
Other countries7,000
World total (rounded)74,000

Read the pattern.

The largest reported smelter output is in China, followed by India and Russia. Smelting geography depends on industrial capacity and electricity supply as well as access to alumina. Countries with large smelters need not have large bauxite mines. These figures describe output during 2025; they do not measure all aluminium used by consumers, because recycled metal also enters manufacturing.

From country output to a real object

Bauxite is refined into alumina before smelters make primary aluminium. Rolling mills, foundries and component factories can be in further countries. Scrap remelting adds another route. A can, window or bicycle may combine primary and recycled metal, so this country distribution cannot establish where a particular object’s aluminium originated.

Aluminium

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