Contribution (%) of African countries, China and other countries to the global production of 18 critical minerals, 2023

Created	March 5, 2025
Credit	U.S. Geological Survey, 2025, Mineral commodity summaries 2025 (ver. 1.2, March 2025): U.S. Geological Survey, 212 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/mcs2025.
Category	Economy
Description	This dataset contains 18 mineral commodities and the percentage of global production in 2023 of various countries. The intention of this dataset was to focus on the contribution of African countries and China to global production of each of those commodities. The data was extracted from Mineral Commodity Summaries 2025 - World Production, Capacity, and Reserves Commodity Data Release available from: https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/mcs2025 https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/6798fd34d34ea8c18376e8ee
Data rows	346
Headers	COUNTRY Category COMMODITY_TYPE Percentage of world production
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