Chemistry:List of countries by gold production

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2012 world gold output (in kilograms)
Trends in five of the top seven gold-producing countries

This is a list of countries by gold production in 2022.[1]

Until 2006, South Africa was the world's largest gold producer. In 2007, increasing production from other countries and declining production from South Africa meant that China became the largest producer, although no country has approached the scale of South Africa's period of peak production during the late 1960s and early 1970s. In 1970, South Africa produced 995 tonnes or 32 million ounces of gold, two-thirds of the world's production of 47.5 million ounces.[2] Production figures are for primary mine production. In the United States , for example, for the year 2011, secondary sources (new and old scrap) exceeded primary production.[3]

2022
rank
Country Gold production
(tonnes)[4]
% of total Reserves
(tonnes)[5]
% of total
  World 3,100 100.0 52,000 100.0
1 China 330 10.6 1,900 3.7
2 Australia 320 10.3 8,400 16.2
3 Russia 320 10.3 6,800 13.1
4 Canada 220 7.1 2,300 4.4
5 United States 170 5.5 3,000 5.8
6  Mexico 120 3.9 1,400 2.7
7 Kazakhstan 120 3.9 1,200 2.3
8 South Africa 110 3.5 5,000 9.6
9 Peru 100 3.3 2,900 5.6
10 Uzbekistan 100 3.3 1,800 3.5
11 Ghana 90 2.9 1,000 1.9
12 Indonesia 70 2.3 2,600 5.0
13 Burkina Faso 70 2.3 N/A
14 Brazil 60 1.9 2,400 4.6
15 Colombia 60 1.9 N/A
16 Tanzania 60 1.9 N/A
17 Papua New Guinea 50 1.6 1,100 2.1
18 Mali 50 1.6 800 1.5
19 Sudan 50 1.6 N/A
  Rest of the World 630 20.3 9,400 18.0

See also

  • List of gold mines

References

  1. "Gold". U.S. Geological Survey, Mineral Commodity Summaries. January 2023. https://pubs.usgs.gov/periodicals/mcs2023/mcs2023-gold.pdf. 
  2. "South African production: important but no longer globally significant". 2019-06-18. https://www.gold.org/goldhub/gold-focus/2019/06/south-african-production-important-no-longer-globally-significant. 
  3. George, Micheal W. (28 February 2014). "Gold". Mineral commodity summaries 2014. Reston, Virginia: U.S. Geological Survey. pp. 66–67. ISBN 9781411337657. https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/prd-wret/assets/palladium/production/mineral-pubs/mcs/mcs2014.pdf. Retrieved 6 November 2019. 
  4. LePan, Nicholas (16 August 2021). "Visualizing Global Gold Production by Country in 2020". Visual Capitalist – Elements. https://elements.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-global-gold-production-by-country-in-2020/. 
  5. George, Micheal W. (28 February 2019). "Gold". Mineral commodity summaries 2019. Reston, Virginia: U.S. Geological Survey. pp. 71–72. ISBN 9781411342835. https://prd-wret.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/palladium/production/atoms/files/mcs2019_all.pdf. Retrieved 6 November 2019.