Titanium ore: top exporters and importers (2024)

1. Mozambique$949 million · 25.9%
2. South Africa$555 million · 15.1%
3. Australia$483 million · 13.2%
4. Norway$223 million · 6.1%
5. Sierra Leone$176 million · 4.8%
6. Madagascar$173 million · 4.7%
7. Senegal$168 million · 4.6%
8. Canada$162 million · 4.4%
9. India$140 million · 3.8%
10. Kenya$106 million · 2.9%
11. Ukraine$91 million · 2.5%
12. Nigeria$77 million · 2.1%
13. China$66 million · 1.8%
14. Vietnam$61 million · 1.7%
15. Egypt$44 million · 1.2%
16. Netherlands$30 million · 0.82%
    re-exports
17. Malaysia$30 million · 0.81%
18. Indonesia$28 million · 0.76%
19. United States$19 million · 0.53%
20. South Korea$14 million · 0.38%

Mozambique went from 0% to 25.9% of world exports of titanium ore

In 2024, Mozambique accounted for 25.9% of recorded world exports and the three largest exporters together for 54.1%. HHI: 1,236 out of 10,000; equivalent to 8 exporters of the same size.

Share of recorded exports, not of production: a country that produces a lot and consumes almost all of it may export little

Countries where Mozambique sells more than half of what they buy

Countries that buy more than half of this product from its largest exporter, with its share.

• Saudi Arabia: 50.9% of its purchases
• Spain: 90.2% of its purchases
• Slovenia: 95.2% of its purchases
• Thailand: 56.2% of its purchases

1. China$1.5 billion · 40.4%
2. Japan$352 million · 9.6%
3. United States$349 million · 9.5%
4. Germany$218 million · 6%
5. United Kingdom$145 million · 4%
6. Belgium$143 million · 3.9%
   re-exports
7. Mexico$106 million · 2.9%
8. Saudi Arabia$103 million · 2.8%
9. Canada$95 million · 2.6%
10. Norway$90 million · 2.5%
11. Netherlands$80 million · 2.2%
    re-exports
12. Malaysia$73 million · 2%
13. South Korea$60 million · 1.6%
14. India$58 million · 1.6%
15. Russia$33 million · 0.91%
16. Spain$26 million · 0.71%
17. Czechia$26 million · 0.7%
18. Kazakhstan$22 million · 0.61%
19. Brazil$22 million · 0.59%
20. Poland$21 million · 0.57%

• 2614 · Titanium ore

Products in the same chapter

• Iron ore
• Copper ore
• Precious metal ore
• Uranium
• Zinc ore
• Bauxite
• Slag and ash with metals
• Molybdenum

Sources and licenses

• CEPII BACI · Licence Ouverte Etalab 2.0
• Natural Earth · Public domain

Methodology

Goods trade from CEPII BACI (BACI_HS92_V202601), which reconciles what exporters and importers report: countries that stopped reporting (Russia since 2022) appear with their partners’ data. FOB values in current US dollars; tonnes when BACI reports them. The price per tonne is the value of the rows with a weight divided by that weight. The transport mode is our own estimate based on value per kilo and geography. Data up to 2024.

Hong Kong, Singapore, the Netherlands and Belgium re-export goods from other countries: their figures include transit.