Australia is the leader of iron ore!

According to the worldsteel data, the global iron ore production amounted to 2 million 476 thousand tons in 2021.

China fell behind Brazil in iron ore production

When it comes to the country with the highest iron ore production in Asia, the first country that comes to mind is China, followed by India.

China's iron ore production reached 266 thousand tons in 2021, while India's reached 249 thousand 300 tons. For the first three quarters of 2022, the top 10 iron ore mining companies reporting quarterly figures produced 948 MT of iron ore. This represents a 1.9% decrease compared to the same period of 2021.

Brazilian iron ore accounted for 92.8% of South America, with a production of 399,300 tons in 2021.

While iron ore in South America reached 430 thousand tons, Brazil made the highest iron ore production in the South America region, reaching 399 thousand 300 tons.

Africa's iron ore output closes to North America's ore output

Among the North American countries, Canada and the USA are in order in 2021; While it produced 57 thousand and approximately 49 thousand tons of iron ore, the total iron ore production of North America was 135 thousand 900 tons.

While Africa's iron ore production in 2021 was 101 thousand tons, South Africa realized the highest production in the region with 73 thousand 100 tons of iron ore production.

Iron ore production in Australia, Asia and South America, respectively; Successful countries were among the top 4 with 922 thousand, 554 thousand 700, 530 thousand 500 tons.

In 2021, Australia produced 922,200 tons of iron ore, while the Oceania region produced the highest amount of iron ore.

EU countries rank lowest in iron ore production

In 2021, iron ore production in Sweden accounted for 90% of all EU countries.

Iron ore production in EU (27) countries reached 32 thousand tons, while Sweden's iron ore production reached 28 thousand 900 tons.

Sweden was the country with the highest iron ore production among the EU countries.