India sits on one of the world's largest rare-earth endowments and turns under 1% of it into output.
| Rank | Country | Rare-earth oxide |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 44.0 Mt |
| 2 | Brazil | 21.0 Mt |
| 3 | India | ~8.52 Mt |
| 4 | Australia | 6.3 Mt |
| 5 | Russia | 3.8 Mt |
The reading — and its limits
The constraint was never geology. Comparator countries are on USGS reserves; India's figure is its own AMD in-situ resource (adjacent measures, so the rank is order-of-magnitude) — and we use India's own primary because the originator outranks the aggregator (USGS itself currently lists India as “NA”). India's decade of rare-earth trade: nil imports, 18 tonnes exported.
Method Endowment from India's AMD/DAE, read from the PIB Parliament record; output and world-share from USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026, read directly.
Computed 22 June 2026