Lithium mine production
ObservedLithium content of mine production, metric tons per year, world and by country.
Ingestedfrom U.S. Geological SurveyfreshJSON export
Current value, World
290,000metric tons
period 2025- Geography
- World (WLD)
- Observation date
- 2025
- Unit
- metric tons
- Frequency
- annual
- Ingested
- 2026-09-07 19:57 UTC
1-year change+68,000contextual+30.63%2024 to 2025from 222,000 to 290,000 metric tons
10-year trend--not enough data: no observation for 2015 to compare with 2025
Historical series
Lithium mine production, World
Observed
Data table (2 rows)
| Period | Value (metric tons) | Source revision | Ingested at |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 290,000 | MCS2026 | 2026-09-07 19:57 UTC |
| 2024 | 222,000 | MCS2026 | 2026-09-07 19:57 UTC |
Definition
What this measures
Mine production expressed as metric tons of contained lithium (not lithium carbonate equivalent). Source table: Mineral Commodity Summaries, lithium chapter, world production table, row "Mine production". The world total is the rounded USGS total; country rows are as listed.
- Direction
- contextual, not scored
- Geography level
- world, countries
- Slug
- lithium-mine-production
Materials
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Provenance and methodologysource, series, ingestion, revisions
- Classification
- Observedpublished by the cited source, ingested without transformation
- Source organization
- U.S. Geological Survey, USGS National Minerals Information Center, Mineral Commodity Summaries
- Series ID
LITHIUM/Mine productionlast fetch: ok- Source links
- Source homepage: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/national-minerals-information-center
- License and attribution
- Approved with attributionU.S. Geological Survey, Mineral Commodity Summaries
- Last source update
- 2026-02-06(source revision label as published by the provider)
- Last ingestion
- last successful runfresh
- Last run
- success2026-09-07 20:15 UTC
- Parser version
- usgs-mcs/1.0.0
- Methodology version
- 1.0
- Quality and confidence
- USGS withholds United States production (W) to protect company data and the world total excludes it, so the world total understates the true figure by the US amount. Country rows are the countries USGS lists; the "Other countries" residual is not stored, so country rows do not sum to the world total. Withheld (W) and unavailable values are stored as nothing, never as zero. Each Mineral Commodity Summaries release restates the previous year (the latest year is an estimate); a restated value arrives as a new row labelled with the release, earlier rows are kept.Ingestion rejects values outside 0 to 10,000,000 metric tons.2 periods with values for this geography, 2024 to 2025.
- Revisions
- Values reported for the latest period (2025) by each source revision ingested. Earlier rows are never deleted; the newest ingested row is shown as current.
Source revision Value (metric tons) Ingested at Status MCS2026 290,000 2026-09-07 19:57 UTC current No superseded rows for this geography: every period has been ingested once.