Uranium: Production
Why output jumped 28% as prices revived idle mines
What this tab covers Who produces it and how much: world output over recent years, the top producing countries with their shares, USGS world figures for 2024 and 2025, and the largest producing companies globally and in India.World Mining Data gives 71,437 tonnes for 2024 (U3O8 basis), up 28% from 55,718 tonnes in 2020 as higher prices revived idled mines. Kazakhstan supplied 38%, Canada 24% and Namibia 12%, followed by Australia, Uzbekistan and Russia. The HHI of 2,319 counts as moderately concentrated. Processing is more concentrated than mining. Conversion and enrichment are run by a handful of firms, including Russia's Rosatom, Urenco, Orano and China's CNNC. For Western utilities, Russia's place in enrichment matters more than its modest share of mining.
Uranium (U3O8) · WMD
2020 56k 2021 56k 2022 59k 2023 63k 2024 71k World production, tonnes (World Mining Data 2026).Top producers 2024
Kazakhstan 38.4% Canada 23.6% Namibia 12.1% Australia 7.7% Uzbekistan 6.9% Russia 4.5% China 2.6% Niger 1.8% Concentration: HHI 2,319, moderately concentrated.Largest producers by company, global
- Kazatomprom: 13,600 tU attributable (25,800 tU on 100% basis) (2025)
- Cameco: 10,193 tU (2024)
- Orano: 6,815 tU (2024)
- Uranium One (Rosatom): 5,829 tU (2024)
- CGN (China General Nuclear): 5,761 tU (2024)
- Navoi Mining (Navoiyuran): 4,000 tU (estimate) (2024)
- CNNC: 3,286 tU (2024)
- BHP: 2,693 tU (2024)
Largest producers by company, India
- Uranium Corporation of India (UCIL): 500 tU (WNA estimate for all of India; UCIL does not publish output) (2024)
- NPCIL (Nuclear Power Corporation of India): 54.7 TWh nuclear generation (India total) (2024)