Most Abundant Metals in Earth's Crust
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Most Abundant Metals in Earth's CrustAluminium is the most abundant metal in Earth's crust at 8.23% by mass, followed by iron at 5.63%. Together these two metals, the pillars of construction and manufacturing, make up nearly 14% of the crust. Calcium (4.15%), sodium (2.36%), magnesium (2.33%) and potassium (2.09%) form a tightly grouped second tier, each present at around 2 to 4%. A steep gap then opens: titanium drops to 0.565% and manganese to just 0.095%, roughly one-eightieth of aluminium's abundance. The ranking highlights an economic irony, the metals that are cheapest and most heavily used, aluminium and iron, are abundant, while many technologically critical metals are far scarcer and sit well below this top eight.
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- Data source
- CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
- Coverage
- 8 entities · 8 observations
- Measure
- Abundance in Earth's Crust (% by mass)
- Last updated
- 7 July 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
- 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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