List of countries by gold production

2012 World gold output (in kilograms)

Trends in the top five gold-producing countries

This is a list of countries by gold production in 2017.

For many years until 2006, South Africa was the world's dominant gold producer, but recently other countries have surpassed South Africa: China, Russia, Canada, the United States, Peru and Australia. Albeit, none of these countries have approached South Africa's peak production which occurred in the apartheid-era 1970s.^[1]

Note the figures are for primary production. In the US, for example, for the years 2010-14, new and old scrap exceeded both primary production and reported domestic consumption.^[2]

Rank	Country	Gold production (metric tons)[2]	Reserves (metric tons)
1	China	440	2,000
2	Australia	300	9,800
3	Russia	255	5,500
4	United States	245	3,000
5	Canada	180	2,200
6	Peru	155	2,300
7	South Africa	145	6,000
8	Mexico	110	1,400
9	Uzbekistan	100	1,800
10	Brazil	85	2,400
11	Indonesia	80	2,500
11	Ghana	80	1,000
13	Papua New Guinea	60	1,300
	Rest of the world	845	12,000
	World (rounded)	3,150	54,000

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