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Uranium · Country-wise

Uranium by Country: Mining Is Spread Out, Enrichment Is Not

Kazakhstan leads mining at under 40 percent, genuinely moderate, but Russia's enrichment share makes the real country-level risk sit downstream.

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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Mining is genuinely spread across eight meaningful producers. The enrichment map, covered below, looks nothing like this one.
Russia (Rosatom)
44%
Urenco (Europe and US)
30%
China
14%
Orano (France)
12%
World enrichment capacity by company/country, 2024. Only four entities control essentially the entire market, a far more concentrated picture than mining.

Australia’s reserve-production gap

Australia holds the largest reserve estimate in the world (roughly 1,684 units on the dashboard’s own published scale) despite mining less than a fifth of what Kazakhstan does, a real, under-exploited gap driven substantially by domestic policy choices rather than geological or technical constraints, a smaller-scale version of the Bolivia lithium pattern covered on lithium’s country page.

Sources: mining and enrichment figures reference this project’s own verified production data (World Nuclear Association, IAEA).