Australia: Data on the share of countries in the global lithium industry value chain, 2017

According to a report released by the Australian Mining and Exploration Association, the proportion of countries in different sectors of the global lithium industry value chain in 2017 is as follows:

Mining: Australia 51 %, Chile 29 %, Argentina 14 %, China 5 %, United States 1 %

Refining processing: 89 % in China and 11 % in Chile

Electrochemistry: 75 % in China, 10 % in South Korea, 10 % in Japan, and 5 % in other countries

Lithium batteries: 50 % in China, 20 % in South Korea, 20 % in Japan, 8 % in the United States, and 2 % in the rest

Battery assembly: 53 % in Japan, 20 % in China, 14 % in South Korea, 9 % in the United States, and 4 % in the rest

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