Production · kt · 1998–2022 · USGS
Nickel mine production, in thousand tonnes — annual, 1998-2022.
USGS, Mineral Commodity Summaries / Minerals Yearbook (World Mine Production by Country) — replaces an earlier source (OWID/Energy Institute) whose per-country breakdown covered only 2020-2024, omitting significant producers such as South Africa, Turkey, Zimbabwe or Myanmar.
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Indonesia (1,580 kt) alone produces over four times the Philippines (345 kt), the second producer — a meteoric rise in barely a decade, driven by a deliberate policy banning raw-ore exports that forced the construction of local processing plants, with Indonesia now aiming to control the entire electric-battery value chain.