Bauxite Reserves by Country

In 2024, Vietnam's reported bauxite reserves fell by 2,700,000 thousand metric dry tons while Indonesia's rose by 1,800,000 — a mirror-image reshuffle inside a single year. The dataset draws on the USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2019-2026 and reports bauxite reserves in thousand metric dry tons. Reserves are estimated quantities that can be economically extracted under applicable conditions, rather than what was mined in a given year. The table covers 14 countries, with 13 reported 2025 values, and listed reserves totaled 23,239,000 thousand metric dry tons in 2025. USGS also reports 5,300,000 thousand metric dry tons under “Other countries,” but does not assign that amount to individual countries. The source gives a rounded world total of 29,000,000 thousand metric dry tons.

Guinea holds 7,400,000 thousand metric dry tons — exactly double Australia's 3,700,000. The 3,700,000 gap between them is larger than every listed reserve smaller than Australia's, while matching Australia's exactly.

Bauxite Reserves by Country

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#	Country	2025 (thousand metric dry tons)
1	Guinea GN	7,400,000
2	Australia AU	3,700,000
3	Vietnam VN	3,100,000
4	Indonesia ID	2,900,000
5	Jamaica JM	2,000,000
6	Brazil BR	1,700,000
7	China CN	710,000
8	India IN	650,000
9	Russia RU	650,000
10	Saudi Arabia SA	180,000
11	Kazakhstan KZ	160,000
12	Türkiye TR	69,000
13	United States US	20,000
14	Malaysia MY	-

Brazil fell by 1,000,000 and Kazakhstan by 120,000, while Russia gained 170,000 in 2025.

Vietnam down, Indonesia up

Vietnam reported 5,800,000 thousand metric dry tons from 2021 through 2023, then dropped to 3,100,000 for 2024 (-46.6%). In that same year Indonesia moved the other way, from 1,000,000 to 2,800,000, nearly tripling its figure before edging to 2,900,000 in 2025. Two of the four largest holders changed sharply in opposite directions within twelve months.

Australia's earlier cut

Australia moved between 5,100,000 and 5,300,000 thousand metric dry tons from 2020 through 2022, then fell to 3,500,000 for 2023 — a 1,600,000 reduction that widened Guinea's lead at the top. Australia added back 200,000 in 2025 (+5.7%), its first increase since 2021.

2025 pulled both ways

Brazil fell from 2,700,000 to 1,700,000 thousand metric dry tons (-37.0%) and Kazakhstan from 280,000 to 160,000 (-42.9%), the two steepest percentage falls among the countries that changed in 2025. Russia moved against them, rising from 480,000 to 650,000 (+35.4%). Among the unchanged series, Guinea (7,400,000), Jamaica (2,000,000) and the United States (20,000) reported exactly the same figures in every year since 2020 — while Malaysia has not reported another reserve figure since its 170,000 in 2020.

Bauxite Reserves by Country

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#	Country	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
1	Guinea	7,400,000	7,400,000	7,400,000	7,400,000	7,400,000	7,400,000
2	Australia	5,100,000	5,300,000	5,100,000	3,500,000	3,500,000	3,700,000
3	Vietnam	3,700,000	5,800,000	5,800,000	5,800,000	3,100,000	3,100,000
4	Indonesia	1,200,000	1,200,000	1,000,000	1,000,000	2,800,000	2,900,000
5	Jamaica	2,000,000	2,000,000	2,000,000	2,000,000	2,000,000	2,000,000
6	Brazil	2,700,000	2,700,000	2,700,000	2,700,000	2,700,000	1,700,000
7	China	1,000,000	1,000,000	710,000	710,000	680,000	710,000
8	India	660,000	660,000	660,000	650,000	650,000	650,000
9	Russia	500,000	500,000	500,000	480,000	480,000	650,000
10	Saudi Arabia	190,000	180,000	180,000	180,000	180,000	180,000
11	Kazakhstan	160,000	160,000	160,000	160,000	280,000	160,000
12	Türkiye	-	-	-	63,000	69,000	69,000
13	United States	20,000	20,000	20,000	20,000	20,000	20,000
14	Malaysia	170,000	-	-	-	-	-

Methodology

Figures come from the USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2019-2026. The 2025 reserve figures are those reported in the 2026 edition. Units are thousand metric dry tons of bauxite, exactly as reported. Blank entries indicate that the source reported no value; they are not zeroes. The published world total is 29,000,000 thousand metric dry tons and is rounded, so shares are computed against the sum of the listed countries. Reserves and production are different measures and should not be combined without equalizing units.