Chemistry:List of countries by primary aluminium production
This is a list of countries by primary aluminium production.[1][2] Primary aluminium is produced from aluminium oxide which is obtained from bauxite and excludes recycled aluminium. Only countries with a minimum production of 100,000 tonnes are listed.
! scope=col style=text-align:center | Country
! scope=col | Production in
thousand tonnes
! scope=col | Year
! style=text-align:left | World
! style=text-align:right | 64,000
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|style=text-align:left| China||36,000||2019
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|style=text-align:left| India||3,700||2019
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|style=text-align:left| Russia||3,600||2019
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|style=text-align:left| Canada||2,900||2019
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|style=text-align:left| United Arab Emirates||2,700||2019
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|style=text-align:left| Australia||1,580||2018
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|style=text-align:left| Bahrain||1,400||2019
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|style=text-align:left| Norway||1,300||2019
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|style=text-align:left| United States||1,100||2019
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|style=text-align:left| Saudi Arabia||932||2018
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|style=text-align:left| Iceland||850||2019
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|style=text-align:left| Malaysia||760||2018
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|style=text-align:left| South Africa||714||2018
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|style=text-align:left| Brazil||659||2018
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|style=text-align:left| Qatar||616||2018
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|style=text-align:left| Mozambique||571||2018
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|style=text-align:left| Germany||529||2018
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|style=text-align:left| Argentina||438||2018
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|style=text-align:left| France||380||2018
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|style=text-align:left| Oman||380||2018
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|style=text-align:left| Iran||370||2018
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|style=text-align:left| Spain||350||2018
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|style=text-align:left| New Zealand||340||2018
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|style=text-align:left| Egypt||317||2018
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|style=text-align:left| Romania||283||2018
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|style=text-align:left| Kazakhstan||258||2018
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|style=text-align:left| Indonesia||242||2018
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|style=text-align:left| Slovakia||212||2019
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|style=text-align:left| Greece||184||2019
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|style=text-align:left| Sweden||126||2019
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|style=text-align:left| Venezuela||108||2019
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See also
- List of countries by aluminium oxide production
- List of aluminium smelters
References
- ↑ Brown, T. J.; Idoine, N. E.; Raycraft, E. R. et al. (2020). World Mineral Production: 2014–2018. British Geological Survey. pp. 4. ISBN 978-0-85272-788-1. https://www2.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/download/world_statistics/2010s/WMP_2014_2018.pdf.
- ↑ (in en) USGS Minerals Information: Mineral Commodity Summaries. doi:10.3133/70194932. https://pubs.usgs.gov/periodicals/mcs2020/mcs2020-aluminum.pdf. Retrieved 2020-12-17.