List of countries by gold production

2012 world gold output (in kilograms)

Trends in five of the top seven gold-producing countries

This is a list of countries by gold production in 2022.

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. 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.

2022 rank	Country	Gold production (tonnes)	% of total	Non-mined reserves (tonnes)	% of total
—	World	3,100	100.0	52,000	100.0
1	China	330	10.6	1,900	3.7
2	Australia	320	10.3	8,400	16.2
3	Russia	320	10.3	6,800	13.1
4	Canada	220	7.1	2,300	4.4
5	United States	170	5.5	3,000	5.8
6	Mexico	120	3.9	1,400	2.7
7	Kazakhstan	120	3.9	1,200	2.3
8	South Africa	110	3.5	5,000	9.6
9	Peru	100	3.3	2,900	5.6
10	Uzbekistan	100	3.3	1,800	3.5
11	Ghana	90	2.9	1,000	1.9
12	Indonesia	70	2.3	2,600	5.0
13	Burkina Faso	70	2.3	N/A	—
14	Brazil	60	1.9	2,400	4.6
15	Colombia	60	1.9	N/A	—
16	Tanzania	60	1.9	N/A	—
17	Papua New Guinea	50	1.6	1,100	2.1
18	Mali	50	1.6	800	1.5
19	Sudan	50	1.6	N/A	—
20	Argentina	35	1.6	1500	1.5
—	Rest of the World	630	20.3	9,400	18.0

See also

• List of gold mines