List of countries by diamond production

This is a list of countries by diamond production, based on data reported by the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme.

Diamond production
(million carats)

Country	2023	2022	2021	2020
Russia	37.3	41.9	39.1	31.2
Botswana	25.1	24.5	22.9	16.9
Canada	15.6	16.2	17.6	13.1
DR Congo		9.9	14.1	12.7
Angola	9.75	8.76	8.7	7.7
South Africa	5.89	9.7	9.7	8.5
Zimbabwe	4.91	4.46	4.2	2.7
Namibia	2.39	2.05	1.8	1.5
Sierra Leone	0.52	0.69	0.8	0.6
Lesotho	0.47	0.72	0.3	0.5

Diamond production
(million USD)

Country	2023	2022	2021	2020
Russia	3606	3554	2643	2255
Botswana	3283	4700	4657	2521
Canada	1550	1878	1512	929
Angola	1532	1965	1626	1017
Namibia	1234	1235	823	720
South Africa	794	1539	1360	959
Zimbabwe	303	424	670	153
Lesotho	139	314	257	261
Sierra Leone	103	150	164	119
DR Congo		65	168	89
Australia		0	0	118

2016

This is a list of countries by diamond production in 2016, based on the British Geological Survey Mineral Statistics Summary for 2016.

2016 Diamond production
(million carats)

Country	Production
World	121.7
Russia	40
Botswana	20.9
Australia	13.9
DR Congo	12.3
Canada	11.1
Angola	9
South Africa	8.4
Zimbabwe	2.1
Namibia	1.5
Sierra Leone	0.5
Others	2

See also

• List of countries by diamond exports
• List of diamond mines