Top Diamond-Producing Countries

About This Dataset

Rough diamond output by country in 2024, in millions of carats, as reported to the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme. Russia and Botswana together mine well over half the world's diamonds by weight, with Africa supplying most of the remaining supply.

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Russia (37.32M carats) and Botswana (28.18M) dominate, together accounting for the majority of global output and each producing more than twice the next country. Below them, Angola (14.03M) and Canada (13.32M) form a close second tier - Canada the only non-African, non-Russian producer near the top. A steady decline then runs through DR Congo (9.79M), South Africa (5.34M) and Zimbabwe (5.29M) before falling steeply to Namibia (2.32M) and the sub-million outputs of Lesotho and Sierra Leone. The ranking underlines how concentrated diamond mining is: two countries lead overwhelmingly by volume, while southern and central Africa supply almost all the rest.

Source: Kimberley Process Certification Scheme

Key Findings

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Russia leads with 37 in 2024.

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Average value in 2024: 12 · median: 8.

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Gap in 2024: Russia is 65.5× larger than Sierra Leone.