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Understanding Diamond Production Data

Diamond production data by country is collected by the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) in volume (carats) and US dollar value. The data, published annually approximately six months after the year-end, covers an estimated 99.8% of global production.

World Diamond Production in Carats and Value 2020

	Carats		Value
	‘000	% share	$m	% share
Botswana	16,941	16%	2,521	27%
Russia	31,187	29%	2,255	24%
Angola	7,734	7%	1,017	11%
South Africa	8,478	8%	958	10%
Canada	13,104	12%	929	10%
Namibia	1,550	1%	720	8%
Lesotho	481	0%	261	3%
Zimbabwe	2,670	2%	153	2%
Sierra Leone	641	1%	119	1%
Australia	10,945	10%	118	1%
DRC	12,743	12%	89	1%
Tanzania	147	0%	24	0%
Others	455	0%	69	1%
Totals	107,077	100%	9,235	100%

Source: Kimberley Process Certification Scheme

Source: Kimberley Process Certification Scheme

World Diamond Production by Volume 2015 – 20 Million carats

	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
Russia	41.9	40.3	42.6	43.2	45.3	31.2
Botswana	20.8	20.5	23.0	24.4	23.7	16.9
Canada	11.7	13.0	23.2	23.2	18.6	13.1
DRC	16.0	15.6	18.9	16.4	14.2	12.7
Australia	13.6	14.0	17.1	14.1	13.0	10.9
South Africa	7.2	8.3	9.7	9.9	7.2	8.5
Angola	9.0	9.0	9.4	8.4	9.1	7.7
Zimbabwe	3.5	2.1	2.5	3.3	2.1	2.7
Namibia	2.1	1.7	1.9	2.4	2.0	1.5
Sierra Leone	0.5	0.5	0.3	0.7	0.8	0.6
Lesotho	0.3	0.3	1.1	1.3	1.1	0.5
Tanzania	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.1
Others	0.7	0.7	0.8	0.8	0.6	0.5
TOTAL	127.4	126.4	150.9	148.4	138.2	107.1

Source: Kimberley Process Certification Scheme

Source: Kimberley Process Certification Scheme

World Diamond Production by Value 2015 – 20 US$ M

	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
Botswana	2,986	2,846	3,329	3,535	3,435	2,521
Russia	4,240	3,579	4,112	3,983	4,117	2,255
Angola	1,182	1,079	1,105	1,224	1,266	1,017
South Africa	1,390	1,249	1,304	1,228	873	958
Canada	1,676	1,397	2,060	2,098	1,697	929
Namibia	1,214	915	1,011	1,125	1,010	720
Lesotho	283	365	343	377	290	261
Zimbabwe	175	105	175	210	141	153
Sierra Leone	154	159	122	157	168	119
Australia	308	216	200	181	159	118
DRC	133	135	157	136	226	89
Tanzania	59	87	79	82	89	24
Others	82	137	127	130	103	69
TOTAL	13,882	12,269	14,125	14,466	13,574	9,235