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Global Resource Map – Location, Production, and Supply-Chain Connections

Gold · Mine production, 2025
  • 0–1%
  • 1%–5%
  • 5%–10%
  • 10%–25%
  • ≥ 25%
  • Not listed

Share of the world total, 3,300 t (tonnes).

Source: USGSSource: Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 (February 2026), World Mine Production and Reserves

West Africa · GH

Ghana

Gold 150 t (USGS estimate) · 4.5% of world

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Role in the chains: extraction

Natural resources, measured

Ordered by the country’s largest How this is computedA country's resources are ordered by its largest share of world output on any production column of each table (e.g. palladium within PGMs).Method →Code →. Values are USGS (minerals) or EIA (energy); an “e” marks a USGS estimate.

Gold 6th (Computed: Position of a country when the countries USGS lists individually are sorted by the same column, largest first; equal values share a rank.) · 4.5% (Computed: A place's annual production ÷ the published world total, same unit and year.) of mine production, 2025
MeasureValueYear beforeWorld standing
Mine production2025 · tonnesSourcedUSGS, Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 (February 2026) · 2025Open the source →2024: 149 (How this is computedLatest year ÷ the year before − 1, same country, same column of the same table (USGS or EIA).Method →Code →)World: How this is computedPosition of a country when the countries USGS lists individually are sorted by the same column, largest first; equal values share a rank.Among 13 countries listed individually.Method →Code → · How this is computedA place's annual production ÷ the published world total, same unit and year.Method →Code →
Reserves2025 · tonnesSourcedUSGS, Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 (February 2026) · 2025Open the source →Year before: —World: How this is computedPosition of a country when the countries USGS lists individually are sorted by the same column, largest first; equal values share a rank.Among 13 countries listed individually.Method →Code → · How this is computedA place's annual production ÷ the published world total, same unit and year.Method →Code →

Reserves ÷ 2025 production: How this is computedPublished reserves ÷ annual production, same place, unit and year.Method →Code → at that rate. Reserves are what is economic to extract now (roughly proved + probable), not all that exists; they move with price and technology.

Export restrictions (OECD, 2024 data)

  • Licensing requirement on scrap since 2010-10-22 Stated purpose: monitoring / control of export activity Legal text ↗
  • Licensing requirement on ore, metal since 2006-03-31 Stated purpose: monitoring / control of export activity Legal text ↗

Not in the sources read: producers (no USGS country chapter read, corpus) · constraints or changes (USGS, accepted events) · EU or US sanctions naming it.

USGS, Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 (February 2026), World Mine Production and Reserves (Data in metric tons, gold content). Source ↗ World ranking →

Oil 35th (Computed: Position of a country when the countries USGS lists individually are sorted by the same column, largest first; equal values share a rank.) · 0.2% (Computed: A place's annual production ÷ the published world total, same unit and year.) of production, 2025
MeasureValueYear beforeWorld standing
Production2025 · thousand barrels a daySourcedEIA International Energy Statistics, EIA international bulk file, updated 2026-09-21 · 2025Open the source →2024: 187.751 (How this is computedLatest year ÷ the year before − 1, same country, same column of the same table (USGS or EIA).Method →Code →)World: How this is computedPosition of a country when the countries USGS lists individually are sorted by the same column, largest first; equal values share a rank.Among 99 countries listed individually.Method →Code → · How this is computedA place's annual production ÷ the published world total, same unit and year.Method →Code →

Not in the sources read: producers (no USGS country chapter read, corpus) · constraints or changes (USGS, accepted events) · export restrictions (OECD 2024) · EU or US sanctions naming it.

EIA International Energy Statistics, EIA international bulk file, updated 2026-09-21, Crude oil including lease condensate, annual (series INTL.57-1-<ISO3>-TBPD.A) (thousand barrels per day). Source ↗ World ranking →

Hydropower 56th (Computed: Position of a country when the countries USGS lists individually are sorted by the same column, largest first; equal values share a rank.) · 0.2% (Computed: A place's annual production ÷ the published world total, same unit and year.) of production, 2024
MeasureValueYear beforeWorld standing
Production2024 · terawatt-hoursSourcedEIA International Energy Statistics, EIA international bulk file, updated 2026-09-21 · 2024Open the source →2023: 9.187 (How this is computedLatest year ÷ the year before − 1, same country, same column of the same table (USGS or EIA).Method →Code →)World: How this is computedPosition of a country when the countries USGS lists individually are sorted by the same column, largest first; equal values share a rank.Among 153 countries listed individually.Method →Code → · How this is computedA place's annual production ÷ the published world total, same unit and year.Method →Code →

Not in the sources read: producers (no USGS country chapter read, corpus) · constraints or changes (USGS, accepted events) · export restrictions (OECD 2024) · EU or US sanctions naming it.

EIA International Energy Statistics, EIA international bulk file, updated 2026-09-21, Hydroelectricity net generation, annual (series INTL.33-12-<ISO3>-BKWH.A) (billion kilowatthours). Source ↗ World ranking →

Natural gas 52nd (Computed: Position of a country when the countries USGS lists individually are sorted by the same column, largest first; equal values share a rank.) · <0.1% (Computed: A place's annual production ÷ the published world total, same unit and year.) of production, 2024
MeasureValueYear beforeWorld standing
Production2024 · billion m³SourcedEIA International Energy Statistics, EIA international bulk file, updated 2026-09-21 · 2024Open the source →2023: 3.116 (How this is computedLatest year ÷ the year before − 1, same country, same column of the same table (USGS or EIA).Method →Code →)World: How this is computedPosition of a country when the countries USGS lists individually are sorted by the same column, largest first; equal values share a rank.Among 96 countries listed individually.Method →Code → · How this is computedA place's annual production ÷ the published world total, same unit and year.Method →Code →

Not in the sources read: producers (no USGS country chapter read, corpus) · constraints or changes (USGS, accepted events) · export restrictions (OECD 2024) · EU or US sanctions naming it.

EIA International Energy Statistics, EIA international bulk file, updated 2026-09-21, Dry natural gas, annual (series INTL.26-1-<ISO3>-BCM.A) (billion cubic metres). Source ↗ World ranking →

Also named in the directory, with no production table for this country: Bauxite / aluminium.

Market access

Export restrictions it applies

SourcedOECD Inventory of Export Restrictions on Critical Raw Materials (2024 data)Open the source → measures recorded on antimony, bauxite / aluminium, cobalt, copper, gallium, gold, nickel, platinum-group metals, silver, tin, tungsten — listed under each resource above.

Sanctions that name it

No EU regime and no OFAC country program. Thematic lists (terrorism, cyber, human rights) can still name its people and companies.

Read 2026-09-26 from the EU Sanctions Map and OFAC’s program list. A regime targets what its measures name — listed persons, goods, services — not the whole country. UK: gov.uk publishes each regime as prose, with no machine-readable list of measures per regime; not read.

Peers on gold

The other leading countries by mine production, 2025 (USGS/EIA); this country is How this is computedPosition of a country when the countries USGS lists individually are sorted by the same column, largest first; equal values share a rank.Method →Code →.

  1. China How this is computedPosition of a country when the countries USGS lists individually are sorted by the same column, largest first; equal values share a rank.Method →Code → · How this is computedA place's annual production ÷ the published world total, same unit and year.Method →Code →
  2. Russia How this is computedPosition of a country when the countries USGS lists individually are sorted by the same column, largest first; equal values share a rank.Method →Code → · How this is computedA place's annual production ÷ the published world total, same unit and year.Method →Code →
  3. Australia How this is computedPosition of a country when the countries USGS lists individually are sorted by the same column, largest first; equal values share a rank.Method →Code → · How this is computedA place's annual production ÷ the published world total, same unit and year.Method →Code →
  4. Canada How this is computedPosition of a country when the countries USGS lists individually are sorted by the same column, largest first; equal values share a rank.Method →Code → · How this is computedA place's annual production ÷ the published world total, same unit and year.Method →Code →
  5. United States How this is computedPosition of a country when the countries USGS lists individually are sorted by the same column, largest first; equal values share a rank.Method →Code → · How this is computedA place's annual production ÷ the published world total, same unit and year.Method →Code →

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