Titanium sponge production by country

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Highest: China (260,000 t, 2025) · Lowest: India (300 t, 2025) · 7 countries and territories with data.

Production of titanium sponge, the raw material for titanium metal. Titanium is light, strong and corrosion-resistant, and is used in aircraft parts. Only the main producing countries for which the USGS reports figures are compared; the latest year is an estimate.

Ranking

Latest value for each country (within 5 years).

Over time

United States: rank over time

Rank among the countries with data in each year (highest first).

World ranking (highest first)

RankCountryValueYear
1China260,000 t2025
2Japan53,000 t2025
3Russia25,000 t2025
4Kazakhstan16,000 t2025
5Saudi Arabia12,000 t2025
6Ukraine1,000 t2022
7India300 t2025

Source: U.S. Geological Survey, Mineral Commodity Summaries, Titanium and Titanium Dioxide chapter (entered by hand and updated once a year). License: public domain (U.S. Government work, CC0). Data retrieved: 2026-10-28.

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