List of countries by gold production

World gold output (in kilograms).

Trends in the top five gold-producing countries

This list of countries by gold production for 2014.

For many years until 2006, South Africa was the world's dominant gold producer, but recently, other countries with large surface area have surpassed South Africa, including China, Russia, the United States, Peru and Australia, although none have approached South Africa's peak production which occurred in the 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	Continent	Country or region	Gold production (metric tons) in 2014 [3]
	World	World (rounded)	2,994
1	Asia	China	450
2	Aus-Oceania	Australia	274
3	Europe	Russia	247
4	Americas	United States	210
5	Americas	Canada	152
6	Africa	South Africa	152
7	Americas	Peru	140
8	Americas	Mexico	118
9	Asia	Uzbekistan	100
10	Africa	Ghana	91
11	Americas	Brazil	80
12	Asia	Indonesia	69
13	Oceania	Papua New Guinea	53
	Rest of World	Rest of the world	858

References

1. "Where Have All the Gold Mines Gone?"
2. "pg. 73 – Gold" (PDF). USGS. 2016. Retrieved 7 July 2016.

External links

• http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/gold/mcs-2016-gold.pdf