This is a list of countries by gold production in 2022.[1]
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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 US, 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 | Non-mined Reserves (tonnes)[5] |
% of total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
— | World | 3,100 | 100.0 | 52,000 | 100.0 |
1 | ![]() |
330 | 10.6 | 1,900 | 3.7 |
2 | ![]() |
320 | 10.3 | 8,400 | 16.2 |
3 | ![]() |
320 | 10.3 | 6,800 | 13.1 |
4 | ![]() |
220 | 7.1 | 2,300 | 4.4 |
5 | ![]() |
170 | 5.5 | 3,000 | 5.8 |
6 | ![]() |
120 | 3.9 | 1,400 | 2.7 |
7 | ![]() |
120 | 3.9 | 1,200 | 2.3 |
8 | ![]() |
110 | 3.5 | 5,000 | 9.6 |
9 | ![]() |
100 | 3.3 | 2,900 | 5.6 |
10 | ![]() |
100 | 3.3 | 1,800 | 3.5 |
11 | ![]() |
90 | 2.9 | 1,000 | 1.9 |
12 | ![]() |
70 | 2.3 | 2,600 | 5.0 |
13 | ![]() |
70 | 2.3 | N/A | — |
14 | ![]() |
60 | 1.9 | 2,400 | 4.6 |
15 | ![]() |
60 | 1.9 | N/A | — |
16 | ![]() |
60 | 1.9 | N/A | — |
17 | ![]() |
50 | 1.6 | 1,100 | 2.1 |
18 | ![]() |
50 | 1.6 | 800 | 1.5 |
19 | ![]() |
50 | 1.6 | N/A | — |
20 | ![]() |
35 | 1.6 | 1500 | 1.5 |
— | Rest of the World | 630 | 20.3 | 9,400 | 18.0 |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Gold" (PDF). U.S. Geological Survey, Mineral Commodity Summaries. January 2023. Retrieved 2023-08-11.
- ^ "South African production: important but no longer globally significant". World Gold Council. 2019-06-18. Retrieved 2020-03-28.
- ^ George, Micheal W. (28 February 2014). "Gold". Mineral commodity summaries 2014 (PDF). Reston, Virginia: U.S. Geological Survey. pp. 66–67. ISBN 9781411337657. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 6, 2019. Retrieved 6 November 2019.
- ^ LePan, Nicholas (16 August 2021). "Visualizing Global Gold Production by Country in 2020". elements.visualcapitalist.com. Visual Capitalist – Elements.
- ^ George, Micheal W. (28 February 2019). "Gold". Mineral commodity summaries 2019 (PDF). Reston, Virginia: U.S. Geological Survey. pp. 71–72. ISBN 9781411342835. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 24, 2019. Retrieved 6 November 2019.