List of countries by iron-ore exports

The following is a list of countries by iron ore exports. Data is for 2012, 2016 & 2023, in millions of United States dollars, as reported by The Observatory of Economic Complexity and the International Trade Centre. Currently the top twenty countries (as of 2023) are listed.

* indicates "Natural resources of COUNTRY or TERRITORY" links.

Country	2012	2016	2023	in millions of tons (2023)
Australia	54,397	38,101	91,049	901,352
Brazil *	32,738	14,110	30,593	378,139
Canada *	4,569	2,656	6,630	58,250
South Africa *	5,580	4,189	6,540	59,556
India *	3,212	1,047	3,607	43,850
Sweden *	3,076	1,664	3,234	...
China *			2,626	21,417
Bahrain *	273	363	1,831	13,816
Ukraine *	3,170	1,929	1,767	17,753
Peru *	889	368	1,681	19,177
Chile *	1,389	832	1,662	16,071
Mauritania *	1,583	983	1,412	14,471
Iran *	1,499	711	1,291	10,062
Russia *	2,813	920	1,221	10,654
United States	1,534	560	1,115	11,130
Malaysia *	516	475	1,101	20,367
Oman *	547	484	1,001	6,745
Sierra Leone	376	142	885	9,363
Kazakhstan *	2,362	385	791	11,713
Mongolia *	514	235	444	5,713

References

Iron and steel production

Iron production
(Ironworks)

Smelting	Bloomery (produces sponge iron) Blast furnace (produces pig iron) Cold blast Hot blast Anthracite iron Direct reduced iron
Secondary	Wrought iron (via Finery forge or Reverberatory Puddling Furnace) Cast iron (via Cupola furnace or Induction furnace)

Primary (Pre-1850)	Pattern welding Crucible steel (Damascus steel, Wootz steel) Tatara furnace Cementation process
Primary (Post-1850)	Bessemer process Open hearth furnace Electric arc furnace Basic oxygen process
Secondary	Electro-slag remelting Vacuum arc remelting Argon oxygen decarburization

Annealing	Low hydrogen Short circuit
Hardening / Case-hardening	Ausforming Boriding Carbonitriding Carburizing Cryogenic Ferritic nitrocarburizing Induction Nitriding Precipitation Quench polish quench
Tempering	Austempering Martempering
Cryogenic treatment (Deburring Deflashing Hardening) Differential heat treatment Decarburization Forming gas Post weld heat treatment Quenching Superplastic forming

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Metallurgy	Aluminium Al₂O₃ Antimony reserve Barium Bauxite Bismuth Caesium Cadmium Cobalt Copper smelter Chromium Dysprosium Erbium Europium Gadolinium Gold Holmium Indium Iridium Iron ore Lead Lithium Magnesium Manganese Mercury Molybdenum Neodymium Nickel Niobium Palladium Platinum Rhodium Rubidium Ruthenium Samarium Silver Steel Strontium Tantalum Tellurium Terbium Thulium Tin Titanium Tungsten Uranium reserves Yttrium Zinc Zirconium reserve
Mineral	Bentonite Feldspar Fluorite Iodine Silicon Salt
Emissions	CO₂ per capita per unit of GDP Greenhouse gas per capita
Others	Manufacturing Cement Motor vehicles Paper
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Terminology

Organizations
and policies

Americas	Andean Community of Nations Caribbean Community Central American Integration System Mercosur
Asia-Pacific	Association of Southeast Asian Nations Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
Europe, Central Asia, and North Asia	Customs Union of Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Russia Eurasian Economic Union European Union Customs Union
Middle East and North Africa	Arab Customs Union Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf
Subsaharan Africa	East African Community Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa Southern African Customs Union West African Economic and Monetary Union