What does Australia produce and export?

What does Australia produce?

What does Australia export?

Australia's own tracked-export mix

Unlike the chart above, this treemap sizes each commodity by its share of Australia's own $277.2 billion of tracked exports, not by world trade. Iron ore alone is 32% of it. See the full export dependency report for how Australia compares with other countries.

Top-ten importer of

• Urea: #4, 7% of world imports, $1.4 billion (2024)
• Phosphate fertilizers: #7, 2.3% of world imports, $82.1 million (2024)
• Potash: #9, 1.7% of world imports, $346.9 million (2024)

Sources: FAOSTAT (crops and livestock), USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries (minerals), Energy Institute Statistical Review (energy) for production; CEPII BACI for trade. Ranks count only the commodities on this site.

Australia commodity by commodity

One page for each commodity where Australia is a top-five producer or exporter with at least 3% of the world total.

• Almonds #2 producer, #3 exporter
• Antimony #3 exporter
• Barley #2 producer, #1 exporter
• Bauxite #2 producer, #2 exporter
• Beef #5 producer, #2 exporter
• Canola #4 producer, #2 exporter
• Chickpeas #2 producer, #1 exporter
• Coal #5 producer, #1 exporter
• Copper #4 exporter
• Cotton #3 exporter
• Gold #3 producer, #5 exporter
• Iron ore #1 producer, #1 exporter
• Lamb #3 producer, #1 exporter
• Lead #2 producer, #3 exporter
• Lentils #3 producer, #2 exporter
• Lithium #1 producer
• Manganese #4 producer, #4 exporter
• Natural gas #3 exporter
• Nickel #3 exporter
• Oats #4 producer, #3 exporter
• Oranges #5 exporter
• Rare earths #3 producer, #3 exporter
• Sorghum #2 exporter
• Sugar #5 exporter
• Titanium #4 producer, #2 exporter
• Tungsten #5 exporter
• Uranium #2 exporter
• Wheat #4 exporter
• Wool #2 producer, #1 exporter
• Zinc #3 producer, #3 exporter
• Zirconium #1 producer, #2 exporter

Australia in the pattern reports

What the cross-commodity reports under Patterns say about Australia, computed from the same data as this page.

What Australia uses

Australia had about 26 million people and a food supply of 3,562 kilocalories per person a day in FAO's 2023 food balance sheets. Its eight largest supplies among the commodities tracked there:

FAOSTAT Food Balance Sheets. Per-person rank counts countries of at least 1 million people. See consumption and self-sufficiency.

Who supplies Australia

• Single-supplier markets. Australia buys half or more of its imports from one country in 2 of 13 import markets of $250 million or more, among them plywood from China (62%, $439 million); olive oil from Spain (68%, $279 million). Import dependency.

How long Australia's own reserves would last

• Lithium: Australia's reserves are about 91 years of its own output at the current rate (32% of world output, 23% of world reserves), against 128 years for the world.
• Bauxite: Australia's reserves are about 38 years of its own output at the current rate (22% of world output, 13% of world reserves), against 66 years for the world.
• Lead: Australia's reserves are about 71 years of its own output at the current rate (11% of world output, 36% of world reserves), against 21 years for the world.
• Gold: Australia's reserves are about 46 years of its own output at the current rate (8.5% of world output, 20% of world reserves), against 20 years for the world.
• Zinc: Australia's reserves are about 58 years of its own output at the current rate (8.5% of world output, 27% of world reserves), against 18 years for the world.

USGS national reserve figures, rounded. A short national figure usually reflects how little has been proved up, not when mining stops. See country reserve life.

Australia and critical minerals

Australia is the largest producer of 2 minerals on a US or EU critical list, each at 20% or more of world output: zirconium (33%, 2025), lithium (32%, 2025). Source: the concentration report on USGS, FAOSTAT and Energy Institute production.

Downloads and citation

This country's rankings as JSON · PDF summary. Cite as: Commodity Origins, "What does Australia produce and export?", https://commodityorigins.com/countries/AUS/ (CC BY 4.0).

Data updated 22 October 2026.

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