Mineral Commodity Summaries 2025: Phosphate Rock

Urban Farm DB summary

This is the Phosphate Rock entry of USGS's annual Mineral Commodity Summaries 2025. U.S. 2024 marketable production was 20,000 thousand metric tons (about 20 million tons, valued at $2 billion), with net import reliance at 13% of apparent consumption and import sources (2020-23) at Peru 98%, Morocco 2%. World mine production was estimated at 240,000 thousand metric tons in 2024 (China, Morocco, the U.S., and Russia leading), world reserves at 74,000,000 thousand metric tons, with Morocco alone holding 50,000,000 thousand metric tons. World P2O5 consumption in fertilizers was 47.5 million tons in 2024, projected to rise to 51.8 million tons by 2028.

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• 20,000 thousand_metric_tons

  us production(phosphate rock)

  Economics

  region

  United States

  year

  2024

• 240,000 thousand_metric_tons

  world mine production(phosphate rock)

  Economics

  region

  Global

  year

  2024

• 74,000,000 thousand_metric_tons

  world reserves(phosphate rock)

  Economics

  region

  Global

• 2 usd_billion

  us production value(phosphate rock)

  Economics

  region

  United States

  year

  2024

• 50,000,000 thousand_metric_tons

  morocco reserves(phosphate rock)

  Economics

  region

  Morocco

• 13 %

  us net import reliance(phosphate rock)

  Economics

  region

  United States

  year

  2024

• 47.5 million_metric_tons

  world p2o5 consumption(phosphate rock fertilizer)

  Economics

  region

  Global

  year

  2024

• 98 %

  peru import share us(phosphate rock import)

  Economics

  region

  United States

  year

  2020-2023