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Mali mined 3.2% (USGS) of the world's lithium in 2025 (estimated).

3.2%

of the world's lithium mining in 2025 (estimated), according to USGS · about 1 in 20

#7 in lithium miningANNUAL 2025

  • Materials with a production share

    1

    with a mining or refining share on record

  • Exports of the ten materials

    $24

    2024; most of it graphite; 1 partner countries

  • Grid emissions intensity

    537gCO2e/kWh

    2024

  • Imports of the ten materials

    $10,574

    2024; most of it lithium; 2 partner countries

OverviewSupply chainMoneySustainabilityRisks & policySourcesHistory & talk

Overview

What it produces

Share of world output, per material and stage. Each bar is one source's figure; where two sources report the same stage, both are shown and never blended. A full-width bar would be 100%.

  • Lithium· Mine

    • 3.2%about 1 in 20#7 in lithium miningUSGS, 2025 (estimated) · 9 400 t

      Rank 7 of the 9 countries with a figure in this USGS table.

Key facts

Country code
MLI
GDP
$30bn (2025)
Mineral rents, share of GDP
16% (2021)
Ores and metals, share of goods exports
0.7% (2023)
Mining area, all commodities
195 km² (2019; rank 46 of 144)

Money →Sustainability →Risks & policy →

Map

Basemap: Natural Earth (public domain)
  • Mali

Sites are those in the open sources. A site missing here is missing from the sources, not from the world.

Country in context

Lithium: Mine production, 2025 (estimated). All rows come from the same table.

Country in context: Lithium, Mine production, 2025
Countrymetric tonsShare of worldSource
MaliThis country9 4003.2 %
AustraliaLargest producer in the table92 00031.7 %
World totalWorld total as the source gives it290 000–

Supply chain

Every figure the sources give for this country, its trade partners per material, and where its sites are.

Production, refining and reserves

The latest year of each series. Share is of the series total: the larger of the source world total and the sum of its rows. Rank counts only the countries that have a number in that series.

Production, refining and reserves: Mali
SeriesAmountShare of worldSource
Lithium: Mine production2025 (estimated) · USGS MCS 2026 · rank 7 of 99 400 t3.2 %
Lithium: Reserves2025 · USGS MCS 2026 · rank 9 of 10370 000 t1.0 %

Trade partners

No data yet. None of the largest trade flows the atlas holds names Mali.

0 sites, deposits and projects on record are listed with the map in the Overview →

Money

What the trade data and the World Bank record in money terms. Every value is a reported figure with its own year.

All recorded trade flows of 2024 under the customs codes that isolate one of the ten materials, by value (CEPII BACI, reconciled estimates, current US dollars). Codes that mix several materials are left out, so trade in those materials is understated; gallium and germanium have no usable code at all. Each material lists its five largest partners. Why trade data blurs some materials

Exports of the ten materials

$24in 2024, with 1 partner countries

Imports of the ten materials

$10,574in 2024, with 2 partner countries

The economy around mining

World Bank indicators. Each has its own latest year, shown next to the value; mineral rents are often several years old.

  • GDP (current US$)

    $30bn

    Year 2025

  • Mineral rents (% of GDP)

    16%

    Year 2021

  • Ores and metals exports (% of merchandise exports)

    0.7%

    Year 2023

Government revenue from extractives

EITI, reported

What government agencies reported receiving from extractive companies, per fiscal year, as the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) publishes it in US dollars. A total covers every sector the country's report covers and is not split by mineral.

$875Mlatest reported fiscal year, 2023

Sectors in the report: mining, oil, gas · Period: 2023-01-01 – 2023-12-31

All 18 reported years
Fiscal yearGovernment revenue (US$)Sectors in the reportCountry fileSource
20232023-01-01 – 2023-12-31874 518 252mining, oil, gassummary file
20222022-01-01 – 2022-12-31778 782 857mining, oil, gassummary file
20212021-01-01 – 2021-12-31652 154 588mining, oil, gassummary file
20202020-01-01 – 2020-12-31645 925 719mining, oil, gassummary file
20192019-01-01 – 2019-12-31516 924 689mining, oil, gassummary file
20182018-01-01 – 2018-12-31427 961 483mining, oil, gassummary file
20172017-01-01 – 2017-12-31461 425 297mining, oil, gassummary file
20162016-01-01 – 2016-12-31447 786 714mining, oilsummary file
20152015-01-01 – 2015-12-31404 310 516mining, oilsummary file
20142014-01-01 – 2014-12-31490 392 861mining, oilsummary file
20132013-01-01 – 2013-12-31424 822 042mining, oil, gassummary file
20122012-01-01 – 2012-12-31462 186 015mining, oilsummary file
20112011-01-01 – 2011-12-31394 959 327miningsummary file
20102010-01-01 – 2010-12-31324 224 206miningsummary file
20092009-01-01 – 2009-12-31359 377 062mining, oilsummary file
20082008-01-01 – 2008-12-31271 937 246miningsummary file
20072007-01-01 – 2007-12-31273 510 382miningsummary file
20062006-01-01 – 2006-12-31212 309 408miningsummary file

EITI reports lag by two to four years. The figure is the report's own total and is not adjusted for inflation. Republished under EITI's Content Use Policy with credit to the EITI International Secretariat, eiti.org. These figures are kept in a file of their own and are not part of the atlas's ODbL data. EITI open data

Investment pipeline

announced figures

Planned and under-construction projects in Mali with a publicly announced capital cost, public financial backing, or both. Each line is one statement by the named publisher on the given date; the atlas adds nothing to it.

No data yet. The atlas has read no announcement of this kind for a project in Mali. The list is short and hand-read; a missing project is missing from the list, not from the world.

A short, hand-read list, not a census: 19 projects in all. Announced amounts are not spending, a letter of interest or a conditional commitment is not a loan, and amounts stay in the currency of the announcement.

Public support instruments

Stockpiles, price floors, offtake and purchasing programmes and public funds of Mali's government, as dated policy events of the type "public support". Each is one statement by its publisher.

No data yet. The atlas has read no public support instrument of Mali's government. The list is short and hand-read.

These figures are informational, not financial advice.

Sustainability

Four indicators, the same on every profile. Each is a figure with its unit, year and source, or a plain statement that there is none.

  • Carbon

    Emissions intensity of the country's electricity grid.

    537gCO2e/kWh

    2024Reported

    Higher than 63% of the other 208 countries with a grid figure.

    • It describes the national grid, not mining or refining. Sites may run on their own power.

  • Water

    Share of the country's mine sites on record that lie in high or extremely high baseline water stress.

    No mine or brine site with a water-stress class is on record in this country.

    • Counted by site, not by tonnage: it is not a share of production.
    • "Arid and Low Water Use" is a class of its own in the source and is not counted as high.

  • Land

    Land visibly used by mining in the country, every commodity together.

    195km²

    2019Estimated

    Higher than 69% of the other 143 countries with a mapped mining area.

    • Rank 46 of 144 countries by area.
    • Mapped from satellite images for all mining in a country. It cannot be attributed to one material or one site.

  • Circularity

    Recycling's share of demand.

    Not available per country: recycling rates in the atlas are published per material, for the EU as a whole.

There is no overall score: the four figures measure different things and are not added up. How to read these figures

Risks & policy

Export controls in force

Compiled by USGS, effective January 2026. Not a live feed.

USGS Table 4 lists no export control by this country for the materials in the atlas.

Chokepoints at sea

The atlas has no record of which minerals pass through which sea passage, so no chokepoint figure is attached to this profile. Current ship counts for the main passages are on the Live page. Open the Live page

Gaps

What the atlas is missing for Mali

Computed from the data. Each line names a record that exists and one that does not. It marks missing data, not missing industry.

  • Listed as a lithium producer (3.2% of world output; Mine production, 2025), but no mine is on record.
  • A lithium producer (3.2% of world output; Mine production, 2025), but no site record names an owner or operator.
  • Trade is partial by design: the atlas holds only each material's largest flows, and none names this country.

Add dataAll gaps, across materials

Sources

Every source this profile uses, with its licence, the years its figures describe and how sure the figures are. Each chip on the profile opens the single record.

The mining-area figure comes from a share-alike source (CC-BY-SA-4.0). It is kept in its own file under that licence, apart from the rest of the atlas's data.

History & talk

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What we don't know yet

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