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Tin · Country-wise

Tin by Country: China and Indonesia Lead a Genuinely Mixed Field

China and Indonesia together supply 46 percent of mined tin, but seven more countries each contribute meaningfully, unlike cobalt's single-country lock-in.

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
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China and Indonesia lead, but the remaining seven countries on this map still account for more than half the total between them.
China
71 kt
Indonesia
61 kt
Peru
33 kt
Brazil
28 kt
DR Congo
27 kt
Bolivia
15 kt
Myanmar
12 kt
Australia
12 kt
Vietnam
11 kt
Tin mine production by country, 2024. Reserves lead with Indonesia (1,400 kt) ahead of China (1,200 kt), Brazil and Myanmar (700 kt each), and Australia (570 kt).

Reserves put Indonesia ahead, not China

Unlike most of the two-country-dominated maps elsewhere in this series, tin’s reserve ranking actually reorders its current top two: Indonesia holds the largest reserve estimate, ahead of China, which suggests Indonesia’s relative importance could grow further rather than plateau, a genuinely different trajectory from, say, silicon’s resource-and-capacity alignment covered on silicon’s own country page.

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