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Which countries lead across the most commodities?

Name: Which countries lead across the most commodities?
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Derived report snapshot · 2026-10-04 · Original report

China is the largest producer of 28 of the 90 commodities with production data here, and is among the ten largest producers of 68. The United States is second with 11 first places. The lists below count places across all the commodities on the site, so they favour large countries and those with wide-ranging agriculture or mining.

Largest producer of the most commodities
Country	Commodities	Of
China	28	90
United States	11	90
India	8	90
Brazil	5	90
Canada	4	90
Indonesia	4	90
Russia	4	90
South Africa	3	90
Australia	2	90
Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire)	2	90
Mexico	2	90
Nigeria	2	90

In the top three producers of the most commodities
Country	Commodities	Of
China	46	90
India	33	90
United States	21	90
Indonesia	16	90
Russia	16	90
Brazil	14	90
Australia	13	90
Turkey (Türkiye)	8	90
Peru	7	90
Canada	5	90
Nigeria	5	90
Thailand	5	90

In the top ten producers of the most commodities
Country	Commodities	Of
China	68	90
India	54	90
United States	49	90
Brazil	47	90
Russia	44	90
Indonesia	33	90
Australia	30	90
Canada	27	90
Turkey (Türkiye)	26	90
Mexico	22	90
Vietnam	17	90
Iran	15	90

Largest exporter of the most commodities
Country	Commodities	Of
Brazil	8	96
China	8	96
Australia	6	96
Canada	6	96
United States	6	96
India	5	96
Indonesia	4	96
Russia	4	96
Chile	3	96
Ecuador	3	96
Spain	3	96
New Zealand	3	96

Largest importer of the most commodities
Country	Commodities	Of
China	31	96
United States	25	96
India	10	96
Germany	6	96
Netherlands	4	96
Brazil	3	96
Belgium	2	96
Indonesia	2	96

Production: FAOSTAT, USGS, Energy Institute and FAO FishStat, latest years. Trade: CEPII BACI, value in US dollars, primary HS line for each commodity, latest year. Uranium, orange juice and cardamom are excluded from production counts (their production series is a proxy). Countries are ranked as the sources report them; China means mainland China.

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Recreated from Commodity Origins' published derived reports under CC BY 4.0. Report figures retain the publisher's definitions, coverage and reporting years. Selection of underlying commodity rows in our commodity explorer is separate and may have different coverage. Source notes above identify the upstream data; no publisher endorsement is implied.

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