List of countries by gold production

This is a list of countries by gold production in 2018.[1][2]

2012 World gold output (in kilograms)

Trends in five of the top seven gold-producing countries

Until 2006 South Africa was the world's largest gold producer. In 2007 increasing production from other countries and declining production from South Africa meant that China became the largest producer, although no country has approached the scale of South Africa's period of peak production during the late 1960s and early 1970s. In 1970 South Africa produced 995 tonnes or 32 million ounces of gold, two-thirds of the world's production of 47.5 million ounces.[3]

Production figures are for primary mine production. In the US, for example, for the year 2011, secondary sources (new and old scrap) exceeded primary production.[4]

2018 Rank	Country	Gold production (tonnes)[2]	Reserves (tonnes)[5]
1	China	404	2,000
2	Australia	319	9,800
3	Russia	297	5,300
4	United States	222	3,000
5	Canada	189	2,200
6	Peru	158	2,600
7	Indonesia	137	2,500
8	Ghana	130	1,000
9	South Africa	130	6,000
10	Mexico	115	1,400
11	Brazil	97	2,400
12	Uzbekistan	92	1,800
13	Sudan	77	1,550[6]
14	Papua New Guinea	69	1,300
15	Kazakhstan	68	1,000
	Rest of the world	1,001	12,000
	World	3,503	54,000