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Nigeria mined 0.4% (USGS) of the world's rare earths in 2025 (estimated).

0.4%

of the world's rare earths mining in 2025 (estimated), according to USGS

#10 in rare earths miningANNUAL 2025

  • Materials with a production share

    1

    with a mining or refining share on record

  • Exports of the ten materials

    $148M

    2024; most of it copper; 13 partner countries

  • Grid emissions intensity

    452gCO2e/kWh

    2025

  • Imports of the ten materials

    $1.6M

    2024; most of it cobalt; 18 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%.

  • Rare earths· Mine

    • 0.4%#10 in rare earths miningUSGS, 2025 (estimated) · 1 500 t

      Rank 10 of the 12 countries with a figure in this USGS table.

Key facts

Country code
NGA
GDP
$291bn (2025)
Mineral rents, share of GDP
0% (2021)
Ores and metals, share of goods exports
0.9% (2025)
Mining area, all commodities
25 km² (2019; rank 90 of 144)

Money →Sustainability →Risks & policy →

Map

Basemap: Natural Earth (public domain)
  • Nigeria

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

Country in context

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

Country in context: Rare earths, Mine production, 2025
Countrymetric tonsShare of worldSource
NigeriaThis country1 5000.4 %
ChinaLargest producer in the table270 00069.2 %
World totalWorld total as the source gives it390 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: Nigeria
SeriesAmountShare of worldSource
Rare earths: Mine production2025 (estimated) · USGS MCS 2026 · rank 10 of 121 500 t0.4 %
Rare earths: Reserves2025 · USGS MCS 2026Not available–

Trade partners

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

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

$148Min 2024, with 13 partner countries

Imports of the ten materials

$1.6Min 2024, with 18 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$)

    $291bn

    Year 2025

  • Mineral rents (% of GDP)

    0%

    Year 2021

  • Ores and metals exports (% of merchandise exports)

    0.9%

    Year 2025

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.

$25bnlatest reported fiscal year, 2021

Sectors in the report: mining, oil, gas · Period: 2021-01-01 – 2021-12-31

All 23 reported years
Fiscal yearGovernment revenue (US$)Sectors in the reportCountry fileSource
20212021-01-01 – 2021-12-3125 277 000 415mining, oil, gassummary file
20202020-01-01 – 2020-12-3123 006 773 382mining, oil, gassummary file
20192019-01-01 – 2019-12-3134 168 232 270mining, oil, gassummary file
20182018-01-01 – 2018-12-3132 813 219 219mining, oil, gassummary file
20172017-01-01 – 2017-12-3120 567 549 975mining, oil, gassummary file
20162016-01-01 – 2016-12-3123 061 394 803mining, oil, gassummary file
20152015-01-01 – 2015-12-3125 111 158 911mining, oil, gassummary file
20142014-01-01 – 2014-12-3153 820 176 735mining, oil, gassummary file
20132013-01-01 – 2013-12-3157 747 589 341mining, oil, gassummary file
20122012-01-01 – 2012-12-3162 916 136 019mining, oil, gassummary file
20112011-01-01 – 2011-12-3167 083 726 119mining, oil, gassummary file
20102010-01-01 – 2010-12-3143 961 672 540mining, oil, gassummary file
20092009-01-01 – 2009-12-3129 216 201 424mining, oil, gassummary file
20082008-01-01 – 2008-12-3168 600 946 070mining, oil, gassummary file
20072007-01-01 – 2007-12-3143 832 627 500mining, oil, gassummary file
20062006-01-01 – 2006-12-3144 124 082 000oil, gassummary file
20052005-01-01 – 2005-12-3133 687 912 740oil, gassummary file
20042004-01-01 – 2004-12-3126 596 416 796oil, gassummary file
20032003-01-01 – 2003-12-3116 980 367 688oil, gassummary file
20022002-01-01 – 2002-12-3111 774 266 565oil, gassummary file
20012001-01-01 – 2001-12-3115 873 113 133oil, gassummary file
20002000-01-01 – 2000-12-3115 685 804 545oil, gassummary file
19991999-01-01 – 1999-12-317 926 523 334oil, gassummary 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 Nigeria 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 Nigeria. 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 Nigeria'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 Nigeria'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.

    452gCO2e/kWh

    2025Reported

    Higher than 49% 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.

    25km²

    2019Estimated

    Higher than 38% of the other 143 countries with a mapped mining area.

    • Rank 90 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 Nigeria

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 rare earths producer (0.4% of world output; Mine production, 2025), but no mine is on record.
  • A rare earths producer (0.4% 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

Revision history and discussion are coming soon.

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What can be contributed today

What we don't know yet

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