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| TABLE 12 | |||||||||||
| ALUMINUM, PRIMARY:� WORLD PRODUCTION, BY COUNTRY1, 2 | |||||||||||
| (Thousand metric tons) | |||||||||||
| Country | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | ||||||
| Argentina | 269 | 272 | 272 | 272 | r | 272 | e | ||||
| Australia | 1,836 | 1,857 | 1,894 | 1,903 | 1,932 | ||||||
| Azerbaijan | -- | 19 | 30 | 30 | 30 | e | |||||
| Bahrain | 519 | 532 | 532 | 751 | 872 | ||||||
| Bosnia and Herzegovinae, 3 | 102 | 113 | 121 | 131 | 135 | e | |||||
| Brazil | 1,318 | 1,381 | 1,457 | 1,499 | 1,498 | p | |||||
| Cameroon | 67 | 77 | 86 | 90 | 87 | e | |||||
| Canada | 2,709 | 2,792 | 2,592 | 2,894 | 3,051 | ||||||
| Chinae | 4,300 | 5,450 | 6,670 | 7,800 | 9,349 | ||||||
| Egypt | 195 | 195 | 216 | 244 | 252 | ||||||
| France | 463 | 443 | 451 | 442 | 421 | ||||||
| Germany | 653 | 661 | 668 | 648 | r | 537 | e | ||||
| Ghana | 117 | 16 | -- | e | 13 | 13 | |||||
| Greece | 165 | 165 | 167 | 165 | 163 | ||||||
| Hungarye | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 | (4) | 5 | |||||
| Iceland6 | 285 | 286 | 271 | 272 | 320 | ||||||
| India7 | 671 | 799 | 862 | 942 | r | 1,104 | |||||
| Indonesiae, 7 | 160 | 200 | 247 | r | 252 | r, 5 | 250 | 5 | |||
| Iran | 169 | 182 | 213 | 220 | 220 | e | |||||
| Italy | 190 | 191 | 195 | 195 | 194 | ||||||
| Japan8 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | ||||||
| Mexico7 | 39 | -- | -- | e | -- | -- | |||||
| Mozambique | 268 | 409 | 549 | 555 | 564 | ||||||
| Netherlands | 284 | 283 | 326 | 325 | 326 | ||||||
| New Zealand | 335 | e | 340 | e | 350 | 351 | 337 | ||||
| Norway | 1,096 | 1,192 | 1,322 | 1,372 | 1,331 | ||||||
| Poland9 | 49 | 45 | 46 | 43 | 50 | ||||||
| Romania10 | 187 | 197 | 219 | 244 | 258 | ||||||
| Russia | 3,347 | 3,478 | 3,592 | 3,647 | 3,718 | ||||||
| Serbia and Montenegro3, 11 | 112 | 120 | r | 121 | r | 120 | r | 122 | |||
| Slovakia7 | 147 | 131 | r | 157 | r | 158 | r | 157 | |||
| Slovenia3 | 88 | 110 | 121 | 139 | 140 | ||||||
| South Africa | 707 | 738 | 866 | r | 846 | r | 895 | ||||
| Spain | 380 | 389 | 398 | 395 | 350 | e | |||||
| Sweden | 101 | 101 | 101 | 102 | 101 | ||||||
| Switzerland | 40 | 44 | 45 | 45 | 15 | e | |||||
| Tajikistan | 308 | 319 | 358 | 380 | 414 | ||||||
| Turkeye | 63 | 5 | 63 | 60 | 60 | 60 | |||||
| Ukraine10 | 112 | 114 | 113 | 114 | 113 | ||||||
| United Arab Emirates, Dubaie | 536 | 560 | 5 | 683 | 5 | 722 | r | 730 | |||
| United Kingdom | 344 | 343 | 360 | 369 | r | 367 | |||||
| United States | 2,707 | 2,703 | 2,516 | 2,481 | 2,284 | ||||||
| Venezuela | 605 | 601 | 624 | 615 | r | 610 | e | ||||
| ��� Total | 26,100 | 28,000 | 29,900 | 31,900 | 33,700 | ||||||
| eEstimated. pPreliminary. rRevised. -- Zero. | |||||||||||
| 1World totals and estimated data are rounded to no more than three significant digits; may not add to totals shown. | |||||||||||
| 2Primary aluminum is defined as "The weight of liquid aluminum as tapped from pots, excluding the weight of any alloying materials as well that of any metal | |||||||||||
| produced from either returned scrap or remelted materials."� International reporting practices vary from country to country, some nations conforming to the | |||||||||||
| foregoing definition and others using different definitions.� For those countries for which a different definition is given specifically in the source publication, | |||||||||||
| that definition is provided in this table by footnote.� Table includes data available through May 5, 2007. | |||||||||||
| 3Primary ingot plus secondary ingot. | |||||||||||
| 4Less than � unit. | |||||||||||
| 5Reported figure. | |||||||||||
| 6Ingot and rolling billet production. | |||||||||||
| 7Primary ingot. | |||||||||||
| 8Excludes high purity aluminum containing 99.995% or more as follows, in metric tons: 2002�40,443; 2003�43,697 (revised); 2004�55,402; | |||||||||||
| 2005�45,413 (revised); and 2006�46,000 (estimated). | |||||||||||
| 9Primary unalloyed ingot plus secondary unalloyed ingot. | |||||||||||
| 10Primary unalloyed metal plus primary alloyed metal, thus including weight of alloying material. | |||||||||||
| 11In June 2006, Montenegro and Serbia formally declared independence from each other and dissolved their union. Mineral production data for 2006, however, | |||||||||||
| still reflect the unified country. | |||||||||||
Source: United States Geological Survey Mineral Resources Program