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2025 estimated output / USGS 2026

Copper

Copper content of annual mine production. The source table reports refinery production separately; the atlas uses only the mine-production column.

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Mine production, contained copper

thousand metric tonnes / 2025
Copper 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.Chile: 5,300 thousand metric tonnesCongo (Kinshasa): 3,200 thousand metric tonnesPeru: 2,700 thousand metric tonnesChina: 1,800 thousand metric tonnesRussia: 1,300 thousand metric tonnesUnited States: 1,000 thousand metric tonnesZambia: 940 thousand metric tonnesAustralia: 730 thousand metric tonnesIndonesia: 710 thousand metric tonnesKazakhstan: 710 thousand metric tonnesMexico: 690 thousand metric tonnesCanada: 500 thousand metric tonnesPoland: 410 thousand metric tonnesIndia: 23 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.

Copper · Mine production, contained copper · 2025 estimates
Country / reporting groupthousand metric tonnes
Chile5,300
Congo (Kinshasa)3,200
Peru2,700
China1,800
Russia1,300
United States1,000
Zambia940
Australia730
Indonesia710
Kazakhstan710
Mexico690
Canada500
Poland410
India23
Germany0
Japan0
Korea, Republic of0
Other countries3,000
World total (rounded)23,000

Read the pattern.

Chile has the largest reported mine output, followed by Congo (Kinshasa) and Peru. The table’s mined copper is a different measure from refined copper: refineries can process imported feed as well as domestic material. A country can therefore be prominent in refining without corresponding mine production. These numbers show one stage in the supply chain during one observation year.

From country output to a real object

Copper-bearing ore must be concentrated or leached, then converted and refined through routes suited to the ore. Metal may cross borders before being drawn into wire or formed into sheet. Recycled copper contributes additional feed. A country’s mine output is evidence about global supply, not the provenance of a phone or cable.

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