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Graphite by Country: China at Every Single Stage

China mines most natural graphite and dominates every processing step after it, a concentration that deepens rather than diffuses down the chain.

Simple World MapAuthor: Al MacDonald Editor: Fritz Lekschas License: CC BY-SA 3.0 ID: ISO 3166-1 or "_[a-zA-Z]" if an ISO code is not available
Lower shareHigher share
China's mine share alone is an order of magnitude larger than any other single producer on this map.
Mine production
78%
Refining and processing
90%
Anode material
93%
Spherical graphite
99%
China's share at each successive processing stage. Every single step concentrates further, the opposite pattern from a supply chain that diversifies as it moves downstream.

Madagascar, Tanzania, Brazil, and Mozambique as the real alternative

These four countries are the most meaningful non-Chinese mine-stage producers, and international investment interest in expanding their output specifically, rather than China’s, is a real, current response to the concentration shown above, covered in more depth on this material’s supply chain and financing pages. None of them yet has meaningful spherical graphite processing capacity of its own.

Sources: production figures reference this project’s own verified production data (USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2025, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence).