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Tanzania mined 4.2% (USGS) of the world's graphite in 2025 (estimated).

4.2%

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

#3 in graphite miningANNUAL 2025

  • Materials with a production share

    1

    with a mining or refining share on record

  • Sites on record

    2

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

  • Exports of the ten materials

    $456M

    2024; most of it copper; 22 partner countries

  • Grid emissions intensity

    344gCO2e/kWh

    2024

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%.

  • Graphite· Mine

    • 4.2%about 1 in 20#3 in graphite miningUSGS, 2025 (estimated) · 75 000 t

      Rank 3 of the 18 countries with a figure in this USGS table.

    • 3.5%about 1 in 20#5 in graphite miningIEA, 2025 · 62 kt

      Rank 5 of the 6 countries with a figure in this IEA table.

Key facts

Country code
TZA
GDP
$90bn (2025)
Mineral rents, share of GDP
4% (2021)
Ores and metals, share of goods exports
5.5% (2025)
Mining area, all commodities
147 km² (2019; rank 53 of 144)
Named in the sources as
United Rep. of Tanzania

Money →Sustainability →Risks & policy →

Map

Basemap: Natural Earth (public domain)
  • Tanzania
  • 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 · 2

2 of 2 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

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

Country in context: Graphite, Mine production, 2025
Countrymetric tonsShare of worldSource
TanzaniaThis country75 0004.2 %
ChinaLargest producer in the table1 400 00077.8 %
World totalWorld total as the source gives it1 800 000–

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: Tanzania
SeriesAmountShare of worldSource
Graphite: Mine production2025 (estimated) · USGS MCS 2026 · rank 3 of 1875 000 t4.2 %
Graphite: Mining (natural graphite) (IEA)2025 · IEA GCMO 2026 · rank 5 of 662 kt3.5 %
Graphite: Reserves2025 · USGS MCS 2026 · rank 5 of 1518 000 000 t5.8 %
Rare earths: Mine production2025 (estimated) · USGS MCS 2026Nil (—) in source–
Rare earths: Reserves2025 · USGS MCS 2026 · rank 8 of 11890 000 t1.0 %

Trade partners

1 recorded flow, 2024

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

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

Recorded trade flows of Tanzania: Graphite
PartnerMaterialYearValue, US$Source
Export toChinaGraphiteMine2024$12M

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.

2 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

$456Min 2024, with 22 partner countries

Imports of the ten materials

$9.9Min 2024, with 17 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$)

    $90bn

    Year 2025

  • Mineral rents (% of GDP)

    4%

    Year 2021

  • Ores and metals exports (% of merchandise exports)

    5.5%

    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.

$929Mlatest reported fiscal year, 2022

Sectors in the report: mining, oil, gas · Period: 2021-07-01 – 2022-06-30

All 12 reported years
Fiscal yearGovernment revenue (US$)Sectors in the reportCountry fileSource
20222021-07-01 – 2022-06-30929 280 713mining, oil, gassummary file
20192018-07-01 – 2019-06-30272 273 674mining, oil, gassummary file
20182017-07-01 – 2018-06-30354 663 944mining, oil, gassummary file
20172016-07-01 – 2017-06-30249 905 273mining, oil, gassummary file
20162015-07-01 – 2016-06-30252 659 255mining, oil, gassummary file
20152014-07-01 – 2015-06-30284 448 857mining, oil, gassummary file
20142013-07-01 – 2014-06-30561 737 906mining, oil, gassummary file
20132012-07-01 – 2013-06-30395 798 004mining, oil, gassummary file
20122011-07-01 – 2012-06-30286 747 259mining, oil, gassummary file
20112010-07-01 – 2011-06-30187 935 781mining, oil, gassummary file
20102009-07-01 – 2010-06-30148 444 660mining, oil, gassummary file
20092008-07-01 – 2009-06-3054 290 317mining, oil, 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 Tanzania 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.

  • Kabanga Nickel ProjectPlannedMine

    Lifezone Metals Limited · northwestern Tanzania · Nickel, Copper, Cobalt

    “on track for a Final Investment Decision (FID) in 2026” · status as printed on 2025-12-11

    Announced capital cost

    USD 942 M2025-07-18

    Pre-production capital costs, including 9.7% contingency (Feasibility Study, initial development phase) · Lifezone Metals Limited

    The publisher's words: “Pre-production capital costs of $942 million, including 9.7% contingency.”
    Public backing

    • no amount statedLetter of interest · “Letter of Interest” · 2024-09-23

      U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC)

      The publisher's words: “has received a Letter of Interest from the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) that expressed DFC’s interest in considering the Project for loans”

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 Tanzania'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 Tanzania'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.

    344gCO2e/kWh

    2024Reported

    Higher than 38% 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.

    0%of mine sites on record

    2023Estimated

    No world percentile: the number of sites on record differs too much between countries to compare them.

    • 0 of 2 sites with a class (2 mine and brine sites on record).
    • 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.

    147km²

    2019Estimated

    Higher than 64% of the other 143 countries with a mapped mining area.

    • Rank 53 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.

  • ▲ BanTanzaniaNickel2017

    Export ban: Ore concentrates of copper, gold, nickel, and silver (2017).

    Source ↗
  • ▲ BanTanzaniaCopper2017

    Export ban: Ore concentrates of copper, gold, nickel, and silver (2017).

    Source ↗

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 Tanzania

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 (4.2% of world output; Mine production, 2025), but no mine is on record.
  • A graphite producer (4.2% 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. 1 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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Every change to a figure will be listed here with its source, its credit and its review, and each profile will have a place to discuss it. Until then the data changes only when a source is updated, and every figure links to that source.

What can be contributed today

What we don't know yet

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Type the name of a material, a country, a site or a company.