World Strategic Raw Materials and Foodstuff Production


CoalOilIron OreCopper OreLead OreTin OreZinc OreNickel OreBauxiteMang OreTung OreChrome OreMolySulphurPyrPhosPotashMagRubberWheatRiceMaizeCane SugarBeet SugarMeat
Total World Production1247272982.31.70.21.91.1430.20.60.23.411153.21.80.916794117179.730
USA34.260383225
30.60.2110.78.80.293825.6308.111
153.755181624
USSR9.31114.343.3
3.81.86.241715

5.8257.327
272.42.4
2315
UK18.6
4.4
1.61.30.4


0.4







1.2


34.5
British Empire525.925343927.991103722410.2
9.28.70.665217523.5321.38.8
of which...


Can 10.2 NR 10.6Can 10.9 Aus 14.7Mal 27.8Aus 11.1 Can 9.1Can 89.5BG 9.1Ind 17.9 GC 9.4 SA 9.0Bur 15.3SR 22.9 SA 12.8

Cyp 7.3PI 8.7
Aus 3.1Mal 41.2Ind 6.6 Can 5.7Ind 43.5
Ind 18.7 Aus 4.5
Aus 3.2 Can 2.5
France3.4
11.7
0.3


170.1



1.40.716

5.6
0.4
8.24.8
French Empire0.2
1.8
21.10.94.40.20.31.84.10.6
0.428

6.71.67.81.11.4
0.8
of which...






NCal 4.3


NCal 4.1


M/T 22.5

IC 6.4
IC 6.7



Netherlands1.1

















0.2


21.3
Dutch E. Indies/Guyana0.12.7


18

150.2


0.4
0.9

33
6.31.78.1

Italy0.1
0.5
2
4.3
9.60.4



8.6

0.2
4.80.82.9
3.72.1
Greater Germany#15.30.24.11.35.40.19.4
2.38.4



4.2
6228
4.7
0.6
2514
Spain0.17
0.70.72
1.1











2.60.30.6
1.6
Portugal









6.2







0.20.92.7


Norway0.1
0.70.9

0.50.8





9.9

0.2





0.3
Sweden

9.30.30.5
1.9

0.10.4


1.6



0.5


2.70.7
Finland


0.1

0.68

















Poland2.90.2



3.8











1.2



2.6
Hungary0.1
0.1




130.6








1.6
2.4
1.3
Yugoslavia

0.31.74.2
2.6
8.90.2
4.8

1.3

3.9
1.8
4.5
0.8
Romania
2.40.1
0.5
0.4
0.3




0.1



2.9
4
1.40.7
Greece

0.1
0.4
0.50.93.4

3.4

1.9

6.6
0.6
0.3


Turkey0.2


0.4
0.6



16
0.1


0.1
2.50.10.5
0.50.2
Iran & Iraq
5.4

















0.2



Japanese Empire@4.90.12.240.91.41.1

1.15.32.60.25.8171.40.114
1.4212.16.70.70.9
China1.1
0.2
0.25.70.2

0.80.6
0.20.7




???


Latin America0.3151.422161810.20.10.267.65.33.60.7




61.61232
13
Alliance Totals
Axis Europe23.22.8275150.1251.7559.86.68.200290.7773902721804626
Total Axis28.12.9309161.5261.7551112110.25.8462.1775202823216.74727
UN + USSR67.4816461655964974278406193822192164492617264604353
UN58.17150576259609536383346938215688.71792357062602038

CoalOilIron OreCopper OreLead OreTin OreZinc OreNickel OreBauxiteMang OreTung OreChrome OreMolySulphurPyrPhosPotashMagRubberWheatRiceMaizeCane SugarBeet SugarMeat

Notes:

Production figures are for 1937 and are in millions of tons. National figures are percentages of world totals. Chinese production of foodstuffs is unknown and ignored for percentage calculations.
All ores are metal content.
# Greater Germany includes Austria and Czechoslovakia.
@ Japanese Empire includes Korea, Formosa, Manchuko and Kwantung.
Spanish iron ore production was only half of its wartime average, probably due to disruptions from the Spanish Civil War. Spanish production of tungsten ore (wolfram) skyrocketed during the war as both sides tried to monopolize it. Finland had significant reserves of Nickel at Petsamo, but I have been unable to locate any production figures.

Abbreviations:

AusAustraliaMolyMolybdenum
BGBritish GuyanaM/TFrench Morocco/Tunisia
Bur BurmaNCalNew Caledonia
CanCanadaNRNorthern Rhodesia
CypCyprusPhosPhosphates
GCnot given in EllisPIPacific Islands
ICFrench Indo-ChinaPyrPyrites
IndIndiaSASouth Africa
MalMalayaSRSouthern Rhodesia
MagMagnesiteTungTungsten
ManManganese

Sources:

Ellis, John. World War II: A Statistical Survey
Data for Poland, Finland, Spain, Portugal is from Mitchell. International Historical Abstracts Europe 1750-1988. Totals may not equal 100% as I'm unsure of the source of Ellis's figures and they seem to differ from those in Mitchell. However all new data was calculated from Ellis's totals.

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