List of countries by copper production

World copper output in 2012.

Production trends in the top five copper-producing nations

This is a list of countries by mined copper production for 2014.

Copper concentrates are commonly exported to other countries to be smelted. A nation's smelter production of copper can differ greatly from its mined production. See: List of countries by copper smelter production.

Rank	Country/region	2014 copper production (thousand tonnes)
	World	18,700
1	Chile	5,800
2	China	1,620
3	Peru	1,400
4	United States	1,370
5	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	1,100
6	Australia	1,000
7	Russia	850
8	Zambia	730
9	Canada	680
10	Mexico	520
11	Kazakhstan	430
12	Poland	425
13	Indonesia	400
	2,400

By way of comparison, here are figures from a century ago.

Rank	Country/region	1907 copper production (thousand metric tonnes)
	World	723
1	United States	399
2	Mexico	61
3	Spain and Portugal	50
4	Japan	50
5	Australasia	42
6	Chile	27
7	Germany	21
8	Russia	15

Further reading

• http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/copper/mcs-2015-coppe.pdf