Statistics published by the Kimberley Process (KP) indicate that global rough diamond production grew 11.9% by volume to 120.04 million carats in 2021, and jumped 51.4% in value to $13.98 billion on a year-on-year basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Russia was the biggest diamond producer by volume in 2021, with an output of 39.11 million carats, while Botswana was the largest producer in value terms, with an output worth $4.65 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Angola, the third-highest producer by value, saw a 60% year-on-year rise in diamond production by value, with an output of 8.72 million carats worth $1.62 billion ($186.29 per carat).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Canada and South Africa rounded off the top five producing nations by value with annual diamond outputs of $1.51 billion and $1.35 billion, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
India retained its position as the top rough importing nation, with rough diamond inflows of 172.47 million carats valued at $17.85 billion in 2021. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
UAE came a distant second with rough imports of 100.09 million carats worth $9.61 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Australia, once the world\u2019s biggest diamond producing country by volume, had nil production in 2021 following the closure of Rio Tinto\u2019s Argyle diamond mine in November 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Statistics published by the Kimberley Process (KP) indicate that global rough diamond production grew 11.9% by volume to 120.04 million carats in 2021, and jumped 51.4% in value to $13.98 billion on a year-on-year basis. Russia was the biggest diamond producer by volume in 2021, with an output of 39.11 million carats, while Botswana was…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-16157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bulletin"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n