Most Abundant Metals in Earth's Crust

About This Dataset

This chart ranks the most abundant metals in Earth's crust by mass percentage. Aluminium and iron lead by a wide margin, together making up almost 14% of the crust and forming the basis of the modern materials economy.

✨ AI Insight

Aluminium 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.

Source: CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics

Key Findings

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Aluminium leads with 8 in All Time.

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Average value in All Time: 3 · median: 2.

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Gap in All Time: Aluminium is 86.6× larger than Manganese.