Mongolia's coal exports hit a record 90 million tonnes
Coal exports by volume, million tonnes, 2005–2025. Customs data published by Mongolia's National Statistics Office.
- 1. Mexico, not China, now sells America the most goods
- 2. China's ASEAN trade is now almost double its US trade
- 3. Central banks now hold more gold than Treasuries or euros
- 4. China now pays the world mostly in yuan
- 5. Migrants now send home four times all foreign aid
- 6. Tether now holds more US Treasuries than the UAE
- 7. Developing countries' interest bill has nearly tripled since 2010
- 8. America's duty-free parcels grew almost tenfold in nine years
- 9. Poles edge past the Japanese in income per person
- 10. In dollars, Nigeria's economy has more than halved since 2014
- 11. Argentina's monthly inflation fell from 25.5% to 1.9%
- 12. Guyana now produces more per person than America
- 13. Mexico's factories now outproduce Britain's and France's
- 14. Ukraine received four times the aid of any other country
- 15. The UAE sold more goods abroad than France in 2025
- 16. Singapore now draws twice as much foreign investment as China
- 17. The EU now buys more US gas than Russian gas
- 18. Malaysia again sells more to America than to China
- 19. 22 governments now owe more than a year's national output
- 20. Brazil mines 93% of the world's niobium
- 21. More Vietnamese now work in industry than on farms
- 22. Money sent home to Guatemala nearly quadrupled in ten years
- 23. In purchasing power, Russia's economy is now bigger than Japan's
- 24. Indonesia set to use more palm oil than it exports
- 25. Factories now make more of Cambodia's economy than China's
- 26. China now buys more from Brazil than from Germany
- 27. Kazakhstan now sells Russia more than Germany does
- 28. China fell to third among America's suppliers in 2025
- 29. Colombians abroad now send home more than foreigners invest
- 30. 72 countries now pay China more than it lends them
- 31. Pakistan rose to first place in Chinese energy finance
- 32. America overtook China as Taiwan's biggest export market
- 33. Mongolia's coal exports hit a record 90 million tonnes
- 34. Viet Nam's ports now handle more containers than Japan's
Coal Mongolia exported in 2025, a record, up from 36.6 Mt in 2019 and 2.2 Mt in 2005.
Share of all Mongolian exports that went to China in 2025: US$14.1bn of US$15.8bn.
Coal export earnings in 2025, US$5.77bn vs US$8.70bn in 2024, as value per tonne fell from $104 to $64.
the numbers & method
| Year | Mongolia (Mt) |
|---|---|
| 2005 | 2.2 |
| 2006 | 2.4 |
| 2007 | 3.3 |
| 2008 | 4.2 |
| 2009 | 7.1 |
| 2010 | 16.7 |
| 2011 | 21.3 |
| 2012 | 20.9 |
| 2013 | 18.4 |
| 2014 | 19.5 |
| 2015 | 14.5 |
| 2016 | 25.8 |
| 2017 | 33.4 |
| 2018 | 36.3 |
| 2019 | 36.6 |
| 2020 | 28.7 |
| 2021 | 16.1 |
| 2022 | 31.8 |
| 2023 | 69.6 |
| 2024 | 83.8 |
| 2025 | 90.0 |
Claim types Fact
NSO Mongolia open data (1212.mn), table DT_NSO_1400_006V2_year 'Export by main commodities, by year', source: Foreign trade statistics report, General Department of Customs of Mongolia. Coal exports, thousand tonnes: 2005 2,217.80; 2019 36,604.07; 2021 16,117.59; 2022 31,821.57; 2023 69,612.51; 2024 83,754.74; 2025 90,017.70 (highest in the series, which starts in 1995). Charted in million tonnes. Coal export value, US$ thousand: 2024 8,697,915.75; 2025 5,768,799.47. Exports by country, table DT_NSO_1400_006V3 (updated 2026-04-14), US$ thousand, 2025: total 15,761,147.13, China 14,095,261.47. The China share (89.4%), the fall in value (−33.7%) and value per tonne ($103.9 and $64.1) are progrss calculations. The commodity table's metadata stamp reads 2025-04-13 although it carries 2025 values; the 2025 totals match the country table updated 2026-04-14. The plate names no cause for the 2021 low or for the price fall. Read from the NSO PXWeb API. Licence: NSO open data, CC BY 4.0.
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