Most Abundant Elements in Earth's Crust
Key Findings
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Oxygen leads in Abundance in Earth's Crust (% by mass) with 46.10.
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Average Abundance in Earth's Crust (% by mass): 9.98 · median: 3.26.
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Gap: Oxygen is 329.3× larger than Hydrogen.
About This Dataset
Most Abundant Elements in Earth's Crust
This chart ranks the ten most abundant chemical elements in Earth's continental crust, measured as a percentage of the crust's total mass. Just two elements, oxygen and silicon, account for roughly three-quarters of everything beneath our feet.
Analysis
Oxygen heads the table on 46.1, ahead of Silicon (28.2) and Aluminium (8.23) in Abundance in Earth's Crust (% by mass). 46.0 separates the highest figure (46.1) from the lowest (0.14). First and second are separated by 17.9, so the leader sits inside the field rather than apart from it. Only 2 of the 10 reach even half the leader's figure (23.1 or more).
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
- Coverage
- 10 entities · 10 observations
- Measure
- Abundance in Earth's Crust (% by mass)
- Last updated
- 6 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value.
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