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Which countries have the most significant trade imbalances when it comes to minerals?

China has the largest surplus by an order of magnitude: it's more than 75,000 times the value of the average (median) country. Meanwhile, no one has a deficit even half as big as Australia's.

Hover over countries to see the value of their net exports - numbers represent millions of USD.

If a country is not on the map, it's due to a lack of data. Data for all occupied Palestinian territories is listed under Gaza strip (PSE), and data for all eight United States Minor Outlying Islands is listed under Palmyra Atoll, a complication of using a UN map with World Bank data.
Map: Bertie Harrison-Broninski for Land and Climate Review Source: World Bank Get the data