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Norway refined 2.7% (IEA) of the world's nickel in 2025.

2.7%

of the world's nickel refining in 2025, according to IEA

#6 in nickel refiningANNUAL 2025

  • Materials with a production share

    3

    with a mining or refining share on record

  • Sites on record

    1

    Mines and plants in the open sources. Coverage is partial.

  • Exports of the ten materials

    $2.5bn

    2024; most of it nickel; 67 partner countries

  • Grid emissions intensity

    28gCO2e/kWh

    2025

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%.

  • Nickel· Refine

    • 2.7%#6 in nickel refiningIEA, 2025 · 100 kt Ni

      Rank 6 of the 7 countries with a figure in this IEA table.

  • Cobalt· Refine

    • 1.3%#6 in cobalt refiningIEA, 2025 · 3 kt Co

      Rank 6 of the 6 countries with a figure in this IEA table.

  • Graphite· Mine

    • 0.4%#10 in graphite miningUSGS, 2025 (estimated) · 6 600 t

      Rank 10 of the 18 countries with a figure in this USGS table.

Key facts

Country code
NOR
GDP
$531bn (2025)
Mineral rents, share of GDP
0% (2021)
Ores and metals, share of goods exports
5.4% (2025)
Mining area, all commodities
36 km² (2019; rank 83 of 144)

Money →Sustainability →Risks & policy →

Map

Basemap: Natural Earth (public domain)
  • Norway
  • Mine or brine operation
  • Processing site

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

Sites on record · 1

1 of 1 shown

One entry per site. Where two sources describe the same site, the atlas lists the record of the source it ranks higher.

Country in context

Nickel: Refining (IEA), 2025. All rows come from the same table.

Country in context: Nickel, Refining (IEA), 2025
Countrykt NiShare of worldSource
NorwayThis country1002.7 %
IndonesiaLargest producer in the table1 68145.1 %
World totalWorld total as the source gives it3 729–

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: Norway
SeriesAmountShare of worldSource
Cobalt: Refining (IEA)2025 · IEA GCMO 2026 · rank 6 of 63 kt Co1.3 %
Nickel: Refining (IEA)2025 · IEA GCMO 2026 · rank 6 of 7100 kt Ni2.7 %
Graphite: Mine production2025 (estimated) · USGS MCS 2026 · rank 10 of 186 600 t0.4 %
Graphite: Reserves2025 · USGS MCS 2026 · rank 15 of 15600 000 t0.2 %

Trade partners

6 recorded flows, 2024

Basemap: Natural Earth (public domain)
  • Recorded trade flow; a thicker line is a larger value
  • Norway

Lines join the middle of each country. They are not shipping routes.

Recorded trade flows of Norway: Nickel
PartnerMaterialYearValue, US$Source
Import fromCanadaNickelProcess2024$1.1bn
Export toNetherlandsNickelRefine2024$825M
Import fromFinlandNickelProcess2024$379M
Export toFed. Rep. of Germany (...1990)NickelRefine2024$270M
Export toUSANickelRefine2024$213M
Export toFranceNickelRefine2024$205M

Reconciled customs data (CEPII BACI), by value. The data holds only the largest flows of each material, so this is not the country’s full trade.

1 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

$2.5bnin 2024, with 67 partner countries

Imports of the ten materials

$2bnin 2024, with 44 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$)

    $531bn

    Year 2025

  • Mineral rents (% of GDP)

    0%

    Year 2021

  • Ores and metals exports (% of merchandise exports)

    5.4%

    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.

$93bnlatest reported fiscal year, 2023

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

All 14 reported years
Fiscal yearGovernment revenue (US$)Sectors in the reportCountry fileSource
20232023-01-01 – 2023-12-3192 578 568 486oil, gassummary file
20202020-01-01 – 2020-12-3111 657 011 936oil, gassummary file
20192019-01-01 – 2019-12-3129 377 199 513oil, gassummary file
20182018-01-01 – 2018-12-3130 974 004 647oil, gassummary file
20172017-01-01 – 2017-12-3120 209 912 088oil, gassummary file
20162016-01-01 – 2016-12-3115 211 183 162oil, gassummary file
20152015-01-01 – 2015-12-3127 146 327 673oil, gassummary file
20142014-01-01 – 2014-12-3149 170 889 732oil, gassummary file
20132013-01-01 – 2013-12-3158 581 385 932oil, gassummary file
20122012-01-01 – 2012-12-3167 848 880 281oil, gassummary file
20112011-01-01 – 2011-12-3162 698 105 536oil, gassummary file
20102010-01-01 – 2010-12-3145 550 568 430oil, gassummary file
20092009-01-01 – 2009-12-3146 444 190 429oil, gassummary file
20082008-01-01 – 2008-12-3176 170 398 175oil, 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 Norway 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 Norway. 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 Norway'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 Norway's government. The list is short and hand-read.

Mining companies headquartered here · 5

Companies that Wikidata places in the mining industry with headquarters in Norway, for every commodity, not only the ten materials. Wikidata is edited by volunteers: entries may be missing or out of date, and each name links to its item. A listing names an exchange and a ticker; it is not a price.

CompanyHeadquartersStock listingLEISource
Intex ResourcesOsloOslo Stock Exchange—
ArktikugolBarentsburg——
Nordic MiningOslo—5967007LIEEXZXFVKO54
NussirKvalsund village—5493004OSU5QD7XRSE73
Store Norske Spitsbergen KulkompaniLongyearbyen——

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.

    28gCO2e/kWh

    2025Reported

    Higher than 5% 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.

    36km²

    2019Estimated

    Higher than 43% of the other 143 countries with a mapped mining area.

    • Rank 83 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 Norway

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 graphite producer (0.4% of world output; Mine production, 2025), but no mine is on record.
  • A graphite 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. 8 of them name 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 can be contributed today

What we don't know yet

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