China primary aluminium output
45.016National Bureau of Statistics of China ↗
million tonnes · 2025
Manufacturing · non-ferrous metals
China primary aluminium production
China produced 45.016 million tonnes of primary aluminium in 2025, up 2.4%. International comparisons use the latest BGS 2020–2024 yearbook and are not spliced into the NBS series.
Official NBS growth
2.4%
year on year in 2025
Rank in BGS complete set
#1
41 complete-coverage economies · 2024
China share of BGS country-row sum
59.9%
derived context · not an official world share
Official China trend
Primary aluminium output and official growth, 2017–2025
Levels are converted from 10,000 tonnes to million tonnes; growth rates are the values published by NBS.
Source: National Bureau of Statistics of China ↗ · NBS annual communiques, 2017–2025, row “primary aluminium (electrolytic aluminium)”; levels are converted from 10,000 tonnes to million tonnes and official growth rates are retained.chinainfigures.com
Derived international context
China’s share of the BGS published country-row sum
The denominator is the derived sum of BGS published country rows for each year, not an independently published BGS world total, so it is not registered as a formal global share.
Source: British Geological Survey ↗ · BGS World Mineral Production 2020–2024, table 3. Country rows may carry estimates, non-calendar periods, exports or explicit Nil notes. The country-row sum is derived context, not an independently published BGS world total.chinainfigures.com
Multi-economy historical animation
Primary aluminium output in a fixed ten-economy set, 2020–2024
The fixed ten are the 2024 top ten within 41 economies with complete five-year coverage, not an unrestricted global top ten. Japan lacks a 2024 row and is outside the complete set.
2024
Data rule：Only real BGS country-year rows are used. Explicit Nil production is retained as zero; absent rows are never zero-filled, interpolated or carried forward.
Accessible table for the current year
| Rank | Economy | Million tonnes | Status and note |
|---|
Source: British Geological Survey ↗ · BGS World Mineral Production 2020–2024, table 3. Country rows may carry estimates, non-calendar periods, exports or explicit Nil notes. The country-row sum is derived context, not an independently published BGS world total.chinainfigures.com
Primary aluminium
New metal produced by electrolytic reduction of alumina
NBS uses “primary aluminium (electrolytic aluminium)” and BGS uses “aluminium, primary”. The page compares only this product concept.
Excluded
Not alumina, recycled aluminium, fabricated products or capacity
Alumina is an upstream input, recycled aluminium comes from secondary sources, fabricated products are downstream outputs, and smelting capacity is a stock of capability rather than actual production.
International comparability
Estimates, fiscal years and Nil rows remain visible
Some BGS country rows are estimates or use non-calendar periods. Explicit Nil means a published zero, while an absent row remains missing; the two are not interchangeable.
Complete-coverage set in 2024
Primary aluminium output across 41 economies
Ranks apply only to the 41 economies with a BGS row in every year from 2020 through 2024; Japan is excluded because its 2024 row is absent.
| Set rank | Economy | Million tonnes | Status and note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 44.005 | No point note |
| 2 | India | 4.199 | Years ended 31 March following that stated. |
| 3 | Russia | 4.182 | No point note |
| 4 | Canada | 3.338512 | No point note |
| 5 | United Arab Emirates | 2.69 | No point note |
| 6 | Bahrain | 1.622 | No point note |
| 7 | Australia | 1.575895 | No point note |
| 8 | Norway | 1.283 | No point note |
| 9 | Brazil | 1.1078 | No point note |
| 10 | Malaysia | 1 | Estimates. |
| 11 | Saudi Arabia | 0.986 | No point note |
| 12 | Iceland | 0.742192 | No point note |
| 13 | South Africa | 0.723 | No point note |
| 14 | USA | 0.685 | Estimates. |
| 15 | Qatar | 0.682 | No point note |
| 16 | Iran | 0.604526 | Years ended 20 March following that stated. |
| 17 | Mozambique | 0.492936 | Years ended 30 June of that stated. |
| 18 | Argentina | 0.447 | No point note |
| 19 | France | 0.4292 | No point note |
| 20 | Oman | 0.399 | No point note |
| 21 | Egypt | 0.305 | Years ended 30 June of that stated. |
| 22 | New Zealand | 0.2897 | No point note |
| 23 | Indonesia | 0.27423 | No point note |
| 24 | Kazakhstan | 0.2645 | No point note |
| 25 | Romania | 0.248059 | No point note |
| 26 | Germany | 0.22 | No point note |
| 27 | Greece | 0.182 | No point note |
| 28 | Sweden | 0.109 | No point note |
| 29 | Tajikistan | 0.0822 | No point note |
| 30 | Turkey | 0.082 | Estimates. |
| 31 | Ghana | 0.035084 | Exports. |
| 32 | Bosnia & Herzegovina | 0.03187 | No point note |
| 33 | United Kingdom | 0.02905 | No point note |
| 34 | Cameroon | 0.0286 | No point note |
| 35 | Azerbaijan | 0.016255 | No point note |
| 36 | Montenegro | 0.014887 | No point note |
| 37 | Venezuela | 0.0092 | Estimates. |
| 38 | Netherlands | 0 | Nil (nothing produced)；Estimates. |
| 39 | Slovakia | 0 | Nil (nothing produced) |
| 40 | Slovenia | 0 | Nil (nothing produced) |
| 41 | Spain | 0 | Nil (nothing produced) |
Source-vintage and interpretation boundaries
- NBS and BGS both report China for 2020–2024, but they are separate source vintages and differ slightly in some years; the page never splices them.
- The full BGS historical API contains duplicate country-year rows from different yearbook editions. This indicator uses only table 3 of the latest World Mineral Production 2020–2024 edition, avoiding silent deduplication.
- The BGS country-row sum is used only as derived context and is not registered as an official world total or global share.
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Primary aluminium production indicator added
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