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The following is a list of countries by iron ore exports. Data is for 2012 & 2016, in millions of United States dollars, as reported by The Observatory of Economic Complexity. Currently the top twenty countries (as of 2016) are listed.

* indicates "Natural resources of COUNTRY or TERRITORY" links.

Country	2012	2016
Australia	54,397	38,101
Brazil *	32,738	14,110
South Africa *	5,580	4,189
Canada *	4,569	2,656
Ukraine *	3,170	1,929
Sweden *	3,076	1,664
India *	3,212	1,047
Mauritania *	1,583	983
Russia *	2,813	920
Chile *	1,389	832
Iran *	1,499	711
United States	1,534	560
Oman *	547	484
Malaysia *	516	475
Kazakhstan *	2,362	385
Peru *	889	368
Bahrain *	273	363
Venezuela *	730	302
Mongolia *	514	235
Sierra Leone	376	142

See also

• List of iron mines
• List of countries by iron ore production

References

• atlas.media.mit.edu - Observatory of Economic complexity - Countries that export Iron Ore (2012)
• atlas.media.mit.edu - Observatory of Economic complexity - Countries that export Iron Ore (2016)