List of countries by iron-ore exports

The following is a list of countries by iron ore exports. Data is for 2012 & 2016, in millions of United States dollars, as reported by The Observatory of Economic Complexity. Currently the top twenty countries (as of 2016) are listed.

#	Country	Value in 2012	Value in 2016
1	Australia	54,397	38,101
2	Brazil	32,738	14,110
3	South Africa	5,580	4,189
4	Canada	4,569	2,656
5	Ukraine	3,170	1,929
6	Sweden	3,076	1,664
7	India	3,212	1,047
8	Mauritania	1,583	983
9	Russia	2,813	920
10	Chile	1,389	832
11	Iran	1,499	711
12	United States	1,534	560
13	Oman	547	484
14	Malaysia	516	475
15	Kazakhstan	2,362	385
16	Peru	889	368
17	Bahrain	273	363
18	Venezuela	730	302
19	Mongolia	514	235
20	Sierra Leone	376	142

References

• atlas.media.mit.edu - Observatory of Economic complexity - Countries that export Iron Ore (2012)
• atlas.media.mit.edu - Observatory of Economic complexity - Countries that export Iron Ore (2016)