Rare earths mine production (REO content) (2025)

With 270K metric tons in 2025, China leads the world in rare earths mine production (reo content), followed by United States of America (51K metric tons) and Australia (29K metric tons). The top 5 is rounded off by Myanmar (22K metric tons) and Thailand (4.8K metric tons). Further down, India (2.9K metric tons) and Madagascar (2.7K metric tons) hold the next two spots. Russian Federation (2.6K metric tons), Brazil (2K metric tons), and Nigeria (1.5K metric tons) round out the top ten. At the extremes, China is 180× as high as Nigeria (1.5K metric tons). Four of the top ten are in Asia. Among these countries, Brazil saw the largest year-over-year change at +257.1%.