In 2021, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which is the world's largest producer of cobalt, accounted for nearly 58 percent of the global exports of cobalt based on value. That corresponded to an export value of 4.8 billion U.S. dollars in 2021, up from 2.36 billion U.S. dollars in 2020. Canada was the world's second-largest cobalt exporting country that year, with a distant 5.96 percent of global exports based on value.
Distribution of cobalt exports worldwide in 2021, by country
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The Observatory of Economic Complexity. (October 6, 2023). Distribution of cobalt exports worldwide in 2021, by country [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved October 02, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1171860/distribution-of-global-cobalt-exports-by-country/
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